Hubers go Africa

Boundless space, storybook savannahs and an adventurous wildlife. This is how Professor Grzimek once awakened the understanding and longing for Africa. With its adjacent conservatories, the Serengeti has the size of the Netherlands and with the unimaginable number of 3 million larger mammals, it’s the game richest national park. Endlose Weiten, Bilderbuch-Savannen und eine Tierwelt…

A piece of Eden in Africa, the Ngorongoro-Serengeti ecosystem, once the exclusive habitat of the Maasai. We start with a day in the Ngorongoro Crater. From Karatu you climb a steep mountain forest and cannot find a suitable superlative when you reach the top of the crater rim. The view into the 600 meters deep,…

From Tarangire it is only a few kilometers  to a completely different national park: Lake Manyara. Its highlights are the many (water) birds and the famous tree lions that are typical here and in Elizabeth Park in Uganda. By the way, they are not a species of their own, but smart lions who flee from…

When guides tell us where they saw the famous tree lions, we countered with our (photo) trophy: a pregnant cheetah. That made an impression! Als uns Guides beiläufig erzählen, dass und wo sie die berühmten Baumlöwen gesichtet haben, kontern wir mit unserer (Foto-) Trophäe: einer schwangeren Gepardin. Das macht Eindruck.

Back from city life to the wilderness. It is said that the density of elephants is nowhere greater than in Tanzania’s Tarangire Park. A place to be! And: It is a MUST especially in the dry season from July to October/November. For many animals here the Tarangire river is a guaranteed source of water. However,…

Thanks to our rescheduling (plan B, cf. previous post), we have immediately increased our knowledge of Africa. Lesson learnt: The capital of Tanzania is not Dar es Salaam at all, but Dodoma – since 1974 already. But still not all ministries are here and the planned international airport is far from being finished. Reminds us…

We have developed „plan B“ and decided to change our route: Instead of driving along the west side of Lake Victoria, across Lake Tanganyika and along the Congo border, we will travel east of Lake Victoria and through the classics Serengeti and Maasai Mara. Currently we are in Iringa, a former German military station in…

The quite expensive park fees (about 80 € p.P./day) we try to compensate with a long game drive. But it didn’t take long for the highlights: two pretty big lionesses. And unlike in Kruger Park there are not ten cars in front of them, but we are alone the whole time. However we got to…

„If you want to see people, go to the Serengeti. But if you want to see animals, drive to Ruaha National Park“, is the safari insiders‘ recommendation for Tanzania’s largest national park. We expect the loneliness of the African wilderness. And it is! However if you have been in the parks of Zambia and Zimbabwe…

And there is a very personal motive for being here in the Highlands: The Merck Family Foundation supports an orphanage, no, a children’s village – initiated and run by a couple who can look back on an impressive life’s work: Since 2005, Geoff and Vicky Fox have been constantly taking care of 50-80 orphans whose…