safari pictures


 
 Here is the Safari blog many of you have waited for.
 
 There is no real good way to give you the essence of what we experienced during our safari. We saw so many things crammed into a mere 12 days that defy description: smells, flavors, sights and sounds of a nation dipped in poverty while also filled with beauty beyond belief.
 
 A country in which I personally spent quite some time writing my thesis more than fourty years ago. However in those days I never experienced the beauty of nature that one is bombarded with when touring, incapsulated in a National park, seemingly far away from a country filled with people who are struggling to provide a living for those they love.
 
 We were driving around amidst a beauty of pure Eden with almost no people, but filled with a spectecular array of wildlife roaming free, giving us the spectators a feeling of being lost in a vastness that I really can not put into words.
 
 Thus I have decided to limit my wordiness and let you in silence view a selection of our pictures.
 
We enjoyed 2 visits to villages: first a Masai village inside the Masai Mara in Kenya, later a fishing village on Lake Victoria in Tanzania. It is amazing that both of them were places where people live and work, as shown in the pictures, even in this day and age. 
 
The six of us were priviliged to visit these villages by ourselves with a local guide, allowing us to see their way of life without the varnish of tourism.
 
We also enjoyed a balloon trip which gave us the extra dimension of viewing the plains from above.
 
The breakfast following that balloon experience, under one of the very few trees in the Serengeti, was a once in a lifetime happening.
 
We lived in luxurious tent camps and lodges, we had our moments of being stuck in the mud and our picnics in the open field knowing that animals were all around of us.
 
We will talk about this for years to come
but for now
Enjoy the picture show.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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