Guide Report – Exploring the Serengeti in May

Jambo from Arusha, Tanzania! This is ADS driver-guide Arnold here with my latest report from the bush. I just finished quite an adventurous safari yesterday. I had 6 guests from Tennessee, USA on an 11-day program through the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Ecoystems. Here’s a photo of a Leopard close to Maasai Kopjes climbing down from the top of an acacia tree.

The safari started on May 1, 2015 and ended on May 11, 2015. We spent a total of 7 nights in the Serengeti split between the Western, Central and Southern areas and then 3 nights in the Ngorongoro Highlands. It was a perfect itinerary for this time of year. Luckily, we received some rains recently after a very rough drought over the last few months.

Below are some pictures I took on this safari:

Female Cheetah at the Ndutu plains.

Lioness with cubs on the crater floor.

Male Cheetah with Thomson Gazelle at Gol Kopjes.

Guests crossing the suspension bridge across the Grumeti River

Lioness – West Serengeti

Big herd of the elephants western Serengeti.

Two male cheetahs on the western side of Serengeti.

Lion foot prints western Serengeti.

Bateleur Eagle western Serengeti.

Crocodile – Grumeti River.

Sunset western Serengeti.

Hippo – Grumeti River.

Hammer Kop western Serengeti.

Nile Crocodile at Grumeti river.

Dung beetle

Lioness with cubs at the Gol Kopjes

Young male and young lioness at Makoma plains – central Serengeti.

Male Cheetah and Thomson Gazelle at Gol Kopjes.

Young male lion about two years old in the West Serengeti

Migration between Gol Kopjes and Sametu Kopjes on the way to Sametu Camp.

Male lion on the way to Gol Kopjes

Female rhino with its calf on the crater floor.

Lioness with two cubs at the central Serengeti.

Big male leopard at the Maasai Kopjes – Central Serengeti.

This is the Ngorongoro Crater in the green season…beautiful!

Two lioness with three cubs at the crater floor.

Wild dog close to Retima hippo pool in the Central Serengeti.

Lioness with cubs at the Gol Kopjes.

  1. This looks fabulous. Please send future emails. We are intersted in an African trip at some point in our lives.