Within the Ngorongoro Crater, there are many Maasai villages. These two warriors of the Maasi tribe were tending their cattle/goats.
 A Datoga tribe woman
 Datoga tribe warrior
 A Datoga tribe woman. Note the tatoos around her eyes.
 Got a little helping hand with this Speke's Weaver bird.He actually left his "calling card" on my camera equipment .
 Martial Eagle, the largest eagle in Africa.
 Tawny Eagle, a common bird in Africa.
 Lilac-breasted Roller, one of my very favorite birds in Africa.
 A juvenile Cheetah
 A juvenile Cheetah
 Two juvenile cheetahs. 
 A visit to the Hadazbe village. A primitive tribe of about 30. There are about only 1000 of the Hadazbe's left.They live in grass type huts and are hunters/gathers.
 Hadazbe child.
 Hadazbe men cooking the three day old baboon for us.
 Hadazbe warrior. HIs clothing and head wear are of baboon fur. Most of the men wore this type of clothing.
 Hadazbe village.
 Olive Baboon. He is the species we were offered  to eat  at the Hadazbe  village. You also might recognize his fur. That's what the village men were wearing on their bodies.
 Impala (m)
 Common Eland
 Grey Crowned Crane
 Plains Zebra, Juvenile 
 Hippopotamus
 Plains Zebra
 We saw a lot of rain during our trip
 Thomson's Gazelle
 African Elephant
 Ngorongoro Crater. One of seven natural wonders of Africa.  It is 2000 ft. in depth. Covers 100 square miles
 Ngorongoro Crater
 Ngorongoro Crater, Maasi Warrior
 Map of the Ngorongoro Crater
 African Lion
 Van Der Decker's Hornbill
 Superb Starling
 White-browed Coucal
 Southern Cordon-Bleu
 Rock Agama Lizard
 African Lion ( feet away from our jeep)
 Cape Hare
 Cheetah  eating a young Wildebeest.
 Cheetah eating his fresh kill of a wildebeest.
 Sunset from our deck in the Serengeti.
 Beautiful Sunbird
 Variable Sunbird
 Usambiro Barbet
 Secretary Bird
 African lions mating. They mate frequently for several days ,without eating or drinking. Mating takes seconds each time.
 Each time after mating the female rolls on her back to promote conception.
 Long-crested Eagle
 Nubian Woodpecker
 Spotted Eagle-Owl
 This pride of cheetahs is mom and her two juvenile cubs
 Siblings cheetahs. We saw many cheetahs this trip.
 Impala (m)
 Eurasian Roller
 Masai Giraffe
 I never pass up a lizard photo.
 Sunrise in the Serengeti.
 Ruppell’s Vulture
 Greater Flamingo
 This little guy remains unidentified  but I continue looking for his name.
 Flat topped Acacia Tree
 Superb Starling with bug
 Lesser Kestrel
 Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax. Hyrax share a common ancestor with  the elephant, aardvark and dugong. They weigh in about 4.5- 11 pounds.
 Rock Hyrax. Weighs in between 4.5 - 11 pounds.
 African White-backed Vulture
 Impala
 Another lizard I couldn’t pass up.
 Black-backed Jackal
 Greater Kestrel
 Black-faced ( Blackcheeked) Waxbill
 Black-headed Weaver (m) making a nest.
 Look very close and you might see the ONLY Leopard we saw on this trip
 Sibling Cheetahs.
 As I mentioned, saw a lot of cheetahs.
 African White-backed Vulture
 Lappet-faced Vulture ( the largest of the African vultures) Eating a kill of a baby wildebeest.
 Lappet-face Vulture,eating a baby wildebeest.
 Hooded Vulture
 African Hoopoe
 Coke’s Hartebeest, two Grant’s Gazelle
 Fischer’s Lovebirds ( looking closely in this photo, I think I see nesting in the trunk)
 Common Wildebeest. There are an estimated 3 million wildebeest roaming in Tanzania. ( I think we saw at least a million of them)
 Busy day on the Ngorongoro “freeway”. Plains Zebras
  Just gives you an idea of massive numbers of Wildebeests.
 Kori Bustard
 Kori Bustard. Displaying male balloons out his breast feathers.
 Hamerkop
 Lion (f)
 Spotted Hyaena
 Warthog family
 White-fronted Bee-eater
 Dung Beetle lives his life on/or in animal dung. They eat it and also lay their eggs in the dung.Than they roll the ball some place to bury the actual dung.
 More of the Ngorongoro Crater.
 Superb Starling
 Little Bee-eater
 A visit to a Ngorongoro Crater Maasai tribe. The chief gave us a nice welcoming. And invited us to lunch.
 Maasai tribe
 A warm welcome to their village
 Maasai tribe raise cattle and goats.
 We even were given a chance to milk one of their cows into a narrow gourd. We didn’t do to well!
 A slaughtered goat was our lunch over an open fire.
 The liver of the goat is the most valued of the entire animal and usually the chief eats it. But this day, we were invited to take a piece of it, as he walked around and gave us each a slice.
 Nothing is wasted from the goat. This “soup” consisted of the heart, lungs, stomach and intestines.
 The soup was than sort of pulverize with a stick with a stone at the end. And than served to us in four community cups. We each took a sip.
 Maasai children
  Maasai little boy
 After our lunch we were entertained with dancing.
 I love these Umbrella Thorn Trees
 Flame Lilly
 Alan and I had an amazing trip to again explore Africa.Seeing so many Cheetahs and all the birds and animal life. To enjoy different adventures  like eating with these  tribes and seeing how they live in some very primitive ways. Amazing trip.These
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