Tanzania and Rwanda 14th September - 10th October 2008

Tanzania

Dar Es Salaam fish market

Zanzibar

The seven hour bus trip from Dar Es Salaam to Iringa

Ruaha National Park

Tandala Tented Camp

Visiting the park

Someone's prepared for safari

Hippo and croc life in the river

A dried out Great Ruaha River

Elephants

Giraffes

Meeting an elephant at sunrise on a walking safari.

Buffalo

Warthog

Greater Kudu. One of my favorite animals. Look at the ears!

Zebras

Lions, a few hours after killing a zebra.

Giraffe...

A dead giraffe. The lions are close...

A male lion

Jackal, hanging around and waiting to get a bite of the giraffe.

Cheetah. The first encounter in the afternoon heat.

Cheetah. The secound encounter hunting impalas before sunset.

Leopard.

Going back to the camp at sunset.

Visiting a local maasai family and the village.

Morogoro railway station

Moshi and Mount Kilimanjaro

A wonderfull day trip to the slopes of Kilimanjaro seeing the village life and making some coffee.

Rwanda

Kigali

On the road to Gisenyi and Lake Kivu

Standing in Lake Kivu. Goma in DR Congo is in the background.

Breakfast at the guest house.

Some Lake Kivu shots.

The area around Lac Burera and Lac Ruhondo.

The first ones are with the volcanoes on the border to DR Congo and Uganda in the background.

Mountain Gorillas

Walking through the fields to the Volcanoes Park boundaries.

Meeting the Mountain Gorillas. We got to see the Kwitonda group.

Nyanza. The old capital.

Nyungwe National Park

Views over the southern part of Lake Kivu.

Velvet monkeys around the guest house.

Chimpanzee trecking in a forest near Cyangugu.

Not easy to spot.

Last look at the lovely Lake Kivu from the outskirts of the forest.

Uganda - Entebbe

Relaxing by Lake Victoria before the long flight home.