Kategorie: 2018
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Serengeti (1)
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…
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Serengeti (2) – Migration
Two thirds of the three million mammals are wildebeests, zebras and Thomson gazelle, which (often followed by lions accompanying their food) participate in this unimaginable annual migration through the vastness of Serengeti and Maasai Mara. Serengeti migration is the last mass migration of wildlife on Earth. Circular, clockwise, they migrate 1,000 km west in May/June…
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Serengeti (3) – for cat lovers
Nine lions. Batteries are charged and the fridge is full. I could sit and watch for hours. Als wir den badenden Elefanten zusahen, gab uns ein Guide den Tip, wo zwei Löwen liegen. Als wir ankamen waren es neun!
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Bye Tanzania
Four remarkable differences of East Africa to the South. – Impressive are the huge animal herds (wildebeest, zebras, buffalos, elephants). What we lack (on this trip) is the loneliness of a Hoarusib valley in Namibia and the confrontation with transient cultures like the Himbas. – What you get in the parks for quite a lot…
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Maasai Mara (1)
We’ve arrived in Kenya. Contiguous with the Serengeti but separated by a political border. Yet it is very different from the Serengeti: (a) We are the only guests in a tasteful lodge and are not in the middle of many tents on a water poor campsite. (b) Here it has already rained two weeks ago. It…
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Maasai Mara (2) – Lions
Off-season. The kitchen staff of our lodge undergoes a one-week training course ending with a motivational game drive. It is led by the guide of the lodge (a Maasai of course), who can’t be more motivated than to shine in front of his colleagues. So we join the team, although we would actually need a…
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Maasai Mara (3) – Migration
Maasai Mara is globally famous for its annual migration of wildebeest (but also zebra and Thomson’s gazelle). This time of the year with the start of the short rains they migrate south to the Serengeti (Tanzania) where we witnessed the arrival of a six-digit number already. Now we follow their departure where they have to cross the…
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Maasai Mara (4) – Cheetahs
The final highlight of our trip with John, our Maasai guide. Two three- to four-year-old cheetah brothers. … Und nochmal für Katzenliebhaber: Drei- bis vierjährige Geparden. Zwei Brüder. The adventurous side effect: To find them we had to cross the (green) border to Tanzania. Two whites or Mzungu as they call us in Swahili /…
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Mzungu
Especially from children we hear again and again the call „Mzungu“. Literally translated the Swahili word means „someone who walks aimlessly“ or „wanderer“. The term originally described European researchers of the 18th century, obviously because they were constantly on the move during their research trips. This is true for us as well. In general it…
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On the road again: Heading for Lake Victoria.
With a wonderful sunrise the Maasai Mara doesn’t make our farewell any easier. … Mit einem wundervollen Sonnenaufgang macht uns die Maasai Mara den Abschied auch nicht leichter. But we should look ahead. Driving northwest will lead us to Lake Victoria. On the way, we see increasingly green landscapes … Richtung Nordwesten, zum Victoria-See…