Ngorongora Crater National Park

After several days of working hard putting siding on the church, playing soccer, painting finger nails, and installing water filters, we endured a long ride to a beautiful national park. This is a photo of the group in front of a lake filled with hippo. 

The day before we arrived only one lion was seen in the park, but we saw seven. We saw these males on the prowl. We also saw elephants, water buffalo, jackels, wharthogs, various deer like creatures, many wildebeest, hyenas, baboons, monkeys, and many different birds including ostriches. We rode in the park in land rovers right out of Wild Kingdom. The tops opened and we were able to stand up and look at the animals with no fear of being eaten. Lunch was in a box prepared by the safari outfitter which we ate in the Landrover to avoid being swarmed by ravenous birds. We completed our tour and we safely exited the park within our five hour time restriction.

We were all amazed at the enormous beauty of this park. We saw almost all of the "classic" Africa animals.