Last night a hyena visited, arr-yooping around and under my tent (it’s on stilts). It’s call echoed across the valley in descending decibles, waking up the Piet-my-vrou cuckoos. For an hour or so sleep was cancelled but it was worth it. After breakfast we picked our way through coffee plantations down to Lake Eyasi. After checking in at Tindiga Tented Camp we wandered through a large, open-air market, threading past tall Maasai warriors in their startlingly red capes, fancy earrings and fierce weaponry. Prominent items for sale were onions and slops made from car tyres. Also on sale were calendars with a photo of Brother (ex) Leader Gadaffi. Did anyone here know he was dead and disgraced?
After that we had a cultural immersion that reinforced my sense of time warp. Sambargwa Domdu is a blacksmith who would not be out of place in the early Iron Age. His bellows were cowhide bags with which he blasted air through a clay cone into glowing coals, heating metal into red-hot compliancy. His anvil was a rock and his only tools were a battered hammer and a beat-up chisel. With these, as we watched, he turned out lethal arrowheads for local Hadza hunters and delicate bangles for adornment-hungry Maasai. Afterwards he played on a single-stringed instrument and sang hauntingly about nothing I could understand.He was a true alchemist musician – the sort of guy every wild tribe needs. I bought some arrow tips with no intention to kill. They were such exquisite works of art.
Related links:
1. Best of East Africa Safari
2. East Africa Migration Discoverer Safari
3. Tanzania Wildlife and Cultural Safari
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Jim Corbett National Park is a great place for the nature lovers as well as wild life lovers. It is a great place for relaxation and you can enjoy the opportunity to spend some time outside from the polluted cities. At Jim Corbett National Park, you can enjoy the company of the wild animals in their natural habitat. This place offers you a wide range of fascinating diversity of the life of the wild animals as well as the unique scenic beauty. You can easily watch the life of the wild animals very closely. A large number of tourists visit this national park every year as it is famous for various things like picturesque surroundings, emerald grasslands, evergreen deciduous forests and the affect of the Himalayas. All these things make Jim Corbett National Park a great place for the wild life lovers, nature lovers, bird watchers etc. a visit to this place will offer you some life time unforgettable memories and you will have the desire to visit more and more.
One of the main attractions of the Corbett is Corbett Safari. Rather you can say that it is a way of greeting the tourists of Corbett. There are different types of Corbett Safari. Here the tourists can enjoy, Corbett Elephant Safari, Corbett Jeep Safari and Corbett Canter Safari. It is better to take the help of Corbett Safari Packages in order to avail any type of incontinence in Safari ride. Most of the tourists are interested for Elephant Safari which is usually the favorite of the wild life lovers. You will get an adventurous and exciting experience of getting closer to the wild animals of Corbett by sitting on the back of an Elephant. By this safari, you can even enter into deep forest.
Jeep Safari is the fastest mode of exploring the Corbett National park. For most of the tourists, Jeep Safari is the first choice as they want to explore the Corbett more and more in less time and it is possible only by Jeep Safari. Enjoy the flora and fauna of the Corbett along with the company of the wild animals by Jeep Safari.
The most common way of exploring the park is the canter safari. If you are interested in exploring the Dhikala forest this is the only way to explore.
For any of the Corbett Safari Packages, it is advisable to book your trip in advance, now a day its more easier through online. Most of the tourists take the help of Online Safari Booking in Corbett in order to avoid discomfort.
The best way to explore the Jim Corbett National Park is by Elephant Safari. By this way you can easily investigate the life of wild animals in the tiger reserve. Without elephant safari, you will feel that your Corbett tour is incomplete as this is the most adventurous and the exciting part of exploring the Jim Corbett National Park. With the help of elephant safari only, you will get the opportunity to watch the life of wild animals very closely and you also get the time to spend more time with them in watching their activities in their natural habitat. The ride of Corbett elephant safari helps you to go deep into the forest to observe the mysterious act of the wild animals. On way you will get the opportunity to enjoy beautiful scenic valley, river, vast grassland, rugged trek and many other things. Elephant safari is especially enjoyed by the people who are adventure and wild life lovers. When you will get the chance to go closer to the wild animals especially like elephant, tiger and many others, you will have a scary as well as adventurous feeling will be an unforgettable memory for your life time.
Elephant Safari in Corbett is offered to the tourist for two times a day. They are morning as well as in the evening. If you are a real adventure lover and interested for only Corbett Elephant Safari, then it is advisable to book your trip in advance as it will offer you comfort and convenience. Thousands and thousands of people visit the Corbett National park every time. It may be possible that due to heavy rush you may not get the opportunity to have a ride on Elephant Safari and if you are a real adventure lover then it will be a disappointing issue for you. In order to avoid this situation, you should book your elephant safari in advance. Now there is a provision for Booking Online Corbett Safari. You can easily book for any of the Corbett Safari for you are interested in advance. Safari ride is the major attraction of Corbett National Park.
Though you can easily explore the Corbett with the help of Canter Safari and Jeep Safari but ride on Elephant Safari offers you a great enjoyment. You can also explore the areas which are inaccessible by any other man made transport with the help of Elephant Safari.
Pale chanting goshawks( Melirax canorus) are one of the most commonly seen raptors in Southern Africa. They are striking birds with orange beaks and legs with grey white and black bodies. I often see them on telephone wires or other perches, scanning the ground and the air for prey. They eat mostly small mammals and birds like Queleas and finches but like a good lizard or large insect too. This one in the picture is eating what looks like a Praying Mantis. What is great about them if you like taking pictures is that they like to “pose” for the camera. This characteristic enabled me to get these shots. This is generally a rather quiet bird, but during the breeding season the male makes a series of tuneful whistling calls kleeuu, kleeuu-ku-ku-ku from a tree-top perch.
Females will usually mate with one male, but sometimes they will be polyandrous. This means the female will mate with more than one male and he will usually do most of the work raising the chicks. Great system hey ladies!
The relatively small stick nest is built in an acacia tree at a height of 3 to 10 m. The female lays and incubates one or two pale bluish or greenish white, unmarked eggs. Only one chick is normally reared from a nest of two. The breeding cycle begins in midwinter and takes over 115 days. The young after leaving the nest may be found near it for some months and in the following year may even display in the same area. Some pairs and especially trios raise a second brood, starting about 24 days after the first brood fledges.
- Written by Chantel (one of our guides)
Related links:
1. Jenman Safaris
2. Meet the Chantel
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The Great Rift Valley – correctly called the Albertine Rift – is a tear through the fabric of Africa from Mozambique to the Red Sea which is moving apart at about the rate your fingernails grow. In tectonic terms that’s pretty speedy.
It’s a messy rip made up of the Tanzanian Craton and the Somalian and Nubian Plates. There’s a western and eastern rift with Lake Victoria and the Serengeti between them. The lakes Manyara, Eyasi and Natron, together with the Ngorongoro Crater, are the result of volcanic turbulence along the eastern edge of the Tanzanian Craton.
Here molten magma is close to the surface and the Rift is littered with active and sleeping volcanos, boiling hot springs, craters and black rocks spat out from the planet’s interior like congealed blood of the underworld.
We drove through the tatty town of Karatu and up the Rift wall. From the top the mountains of the Rift fell away, north and south, in ridges of deepening purple. Far below Lake Manyara shimmered under a sky punctuated by towering thunderheads.
It was cool up there and we drove through fields of maize, beans and coffee to Crater Forest Lodge, where I’m now scribbling these notes.
Related links:
1. Best of East Africa Safari
2. East Africa Migration Discoverer Safari
3. Tanzania Wildlife and Cultural Safari
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