Kenya and Tanzania

From February to May I'll be studying abroad in East Africa. The work will be exciting, and the exploring unforgettable, but unfortunately I won't be able to keep in touch with everyone on a regular basis. I'll be out with the monkeys, giraffes, elephants and many others...and for that reason I'll have very limited phone and internet access. So while I'm away, feel free to follow my blog, and read about what I'm up to!

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Serengeti Pictures

A giraffe in Serengeti.

We saw a harem of Impala running through the grass one day in the park. They looked like they were running from a predator, but nothing was behind them.

This is one of the best pictures of the trip. It was taken by one of our school's employees during the last full day while we were out on safari. You can see the cheetah sitting in the grass...with our campsite right behind it!! The cheetah ran through our site during the day and chased down an impala. By the time we returned to camp the cheetah was under a tree eating what was left of the impala. It was a little scary, but pretty cool. That night we heard a lot of hyenas in camp fighting over what was left over.

This is Oldupai Gorge. This is the site where human-like footprints from millions of years ago were uncovered. You can see the different layers of rock and dirt in the section that is sticking out of the ground. We got to walk through the museum that had a replication of the fossilized footprints that were created around 3 million years ago by a human ancestor. It was one of my favorite places we have visited so far.

Mama baboon with two young.

A young zebra with a pretty cool mohawk.

This is a female lion who walked along our land cruiser as we drove down the road for about a minute.

1 comment:

  1. Wow Beautiful pictures. Have a great Easter! We will be thinking of you.

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