Travel around Tanzania. Ngorongoro, the second day.

The morning of the second day met us with beautiful weather and excellent views of the savannah:

The morning was a little hungover, but I was saved by an excellent English breakfast, which, by the way, is superbly prepared! For breakfast, as we flew a nice bird:

Having sobered up and looked at the surrounding situation, I found that our lodge is pretty densely decorated with all kinds of animal bones. Particularly pleased with the post at the entrance:

But it's time to assemble, and we are leaving this wonderful lodge. Quite quickly and without any special stops we reach the entrance to Ngorongoro:

Again we rise along the slope of the crater of the volcano, stop to admire the beautiful view, at the same time get acquainted with the local population:

Old people in Tanzania are very rare, because the average age of the country's population is less than 18 years, and almost 45% of the population are under the age of 15 years.

After much talk with the masses, we set out on our journey. Having descended from the slope deep into the crater and after driving a couple of kilometers, we were lucky! We saw the king of beasts peacefully resting in the shade of a tree:

So close to see the lion is a great success, because it's strictly forbidden to leave the road, and the beasts usually avoid the tourists. Honestly, I did not expect such emotions - "I've already seen lions in zoos, what can be interesting there?" I thought. But to see the wild lion so close - it's just awesome!

Interesting fact: in the local language Swahili, lion - simba, wild boar - pumba. Does not it look like anything? These are the names of the characters from the cartoon "The Lion King"! Do you know what words are present in one of the songs of the masses? "Hakuna Matata", which literally means "no problem".

By the way, here and his girlfriend has come:

Ooooo very beautiful kitty)))

And not only we noticed them, but this big guy who hurries to fall down before he became a dinner:

By this time we were already hungry and decided to stop eating. Although it is forbidden to get out of the car, we still persuaded our guide to drive to the open space and, having made sure of safety, get out of the cars.

Having a bite, we drove just a couple of hundred meters when we saw three beauties who lay down under a nearby tree:

At that moment, it became somehow uncomfortable. After all, these cats could at any time pounce on us, and we would not have time to jump into the car ...

But this cat is clearly hunting for someone:

On the other side of the road we looked with curiosity at the hyena:

The day, apparently, was very hot, because we still met a couple of lions on the relax by the water:

Naturally, we could not not go to the Magami Lake, on the way to which you can see the rhinos, if you're lucky. But we were out of luck. These rhinos are a vanishing species, and at Ngorongoro, at the time of our journey, there were 17 heads. Very sad, but nothing can be done about it = ((

During our visit to the lake there were many eternally gloomy hippos:

In principle, on this our trip to Ngorongoro ended. At first I wanted to divide the story into three parts, but decided that it would be too tiring. I did not show a lot of photos, so as not to overfill them with posts. If there are enough people, I will make another bonus post with a lot of photos, but, most likely, without my comments.

By the end of the day, we went to another lodge, which shocked me with its chic. Straight Luhuri))) But about this in the next post, in which I will talk about this lodge and how we got to the island of Zanzibar.

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