While we were taking our breakfast two campsite attendants helped our guides to pack everything in the 4x4 to start our long journey to the Serengeti. The scenery around us just kept getting better and better and the villages more characteristic and rural. On our way we passed through the village of Mto Wa Nbu which funnily enough means River of Mosquitoes.

This is another colourful village with people flooding the streets selling their goods and gaining their daily bread. Before continuing our journey Pius, the driver, parked to the side and made a sign to a group of woman sitting at the edge of the road. All of a sudden three women with different bunches of bananas came to try and sell their produce to Anton our cook. This attitude was very characteristic of the place and shows that if you need to buy anything you’re going to be spoilt for choice. Here we stopped again for some other reason and a small boy came to our car asking for a pen. At last somebody came for something we could give and after fumbling nervously in our bags we threw a pen at him. The smile on his face is one of the best memories I’ve got of the whole holiday.

The best part of the day had yet to come because after a brief stopover at the Ngorongoro crater which was on the way, we went to visit a Maasai Village. As soon as we arrived a Maasai dressed in a deep purple cloak came to greet us and obviously ask us for money. Since we didn’t have small change we gave him $30 each instead of the $25. The price looks a bit overpriced, in fact the Maasai himself was quite surprised at giving him the extra $5 but everything was worth it here. The Maasai guide who knew English very well, seemed to have felt guilty not having change so he gave us special attention and was particularly friendly with us.

As soon as we stepped in the village, the Maasai welcomed us with their traditional welcoming dance. With daring confidence they grabbed hold of my queen and dressed her one of their wide collars kidnapping her till the end of their ritual. After the warm welcome the guide took us inside one of their huts created with cow dung, which had a small extinguishing fire fuming the whole place. In pitch black darkness we learned about the Maasai and their way of life.

After this brief discussion we visited their kindergarten area which is essentially a hut built with sticks and earth were small children were waiting for their lesson. In the classroom we were surprised to find benches for children to sit upon and even a blackboard with some Swahili written on it. It’s a pity that we didn’t have any biros and copybooks with us to donate to the kindergarten class. Before leaving the Maasai a female Maasai which is only distinguishable by her cloths since they shave their heads, came to ask us for some anti-venom because a child got bitten by a snake, but unfortunately we couldn’t do much to help.

  

On our way to the Serengeti we met the first lion and the first encounter was the best one of the Safari, because we arrived in the exact moment he was mating. We also saw two lionesses ride each other which was rather strange. I haven’t yet found what does this behaviour means.

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The plains of the Serengeti are like no other. Huge plains full of life that you can feel the animals watching you. In early March the area was a fusion of greens and yellows with a blue sky contrasting in the background. It’s no wonder that most documentaries are taken in this heaven. The animals here look so friendly that they seem to greet you instead of being intimidated. I’m sure that we got closer to them then you can get at a zoo. In fact after this experience I doubt I’d ever visit another zoo. This is insurmountable.

Most of this day was spent travelling however even though we didn’t explicitly look for animals we saw plenty of them. Zebras, Tomphson’s Gazzelle and Impalas are everywhere, but despite their numbers you never tire of watching them. This does not mean that these are the only animals that you can see, it’s more like if you spit out of the car you’re more likely to hit one of these animals than the ground.

After the lions mating we continued our porno show with the most endowed member of male animal kingdom – the elephant. The elephant's dick is so big that he can scratch his stomach with it, which in fact he did. See the video here.

The campsite we stayed at the Serengeti was much wilder than that of Lake Manyara. In fact here in the middle of nowhere there is no electricity or running water so you can feel really isolated from the rest of the world. The campsite we stayed at was called Seronera campsite although in the area of Seronera there are several different campsites. This was the best camping place precisely because it was the wildest one, with no fences guarding you, completely at one with nature.

P.S. Most of the photo's are copyrighted to my much more artistic soul mate