Great photos! thanks for sharing!
Dennis

Nice pics.
You were pretty close to those hippos!

lisa:

Great pictures. You have my admiration taking a picture of a boomslang. I am always found running the other way when I see one! Thus not many of us include pictures of reptiles we seen.

Thanks for sharing.

Jan

Thanks Lisa. I loved the agama lizard, the mineral licking zebras, the lioness running with dust behind her, the cub in the tree, the boomslang looking like a toy snake, the lion under acacia, the leopard standing in the tree, the baby vervet and all the rest. I feel like stealing the acacia and putting it on my desktop.

Great pics, Lisa.

Nyamera, I've got a baobab* on my desktop.



*4" tall.

Lisa:
The photos are wonderful! I loved the colors in the agama doing pushups. It was neat to see the different patterns on the zebras faces in your "Saftey in numbers". Where the lioness fails - her in the center of the shot and the dust and glimpse of the animals in the background strikes me as both poignant & comical. That baby vervet is too cute! And the standoff - they both look like babies? Like Nyamera - I really liked your Lion under the acacia - so calm. Beautiful - thanks for sharing - gets me very excited for my upcoming trip!

Cyn

Thanks for the positive feedback -- it means a lot to me.
I've posted photos from two more portions of our trip, at http://homepage.mac.com/lisaandmarktravel/PhotoAlbum2.html and
http://homepage.mac.com/lisaandmarktravel/PhotoAlbum3.html

Thanks Lisa,
Your pics. are great. The cordon blue is magnificant - seeing such amazing birds makes me want to become a birder - something I've never had much interest in.
That hippo eyeballing you is kinda scary, awesome and never to be replicated.
Sherry

hi lisa, kida like these. i've been interested in tarengire for some time. a big place, good road network i hear, also very interesting landscape ect. thinking of putting it in for sept/oct. but first i have another trip coming up this march.
i am very interested in swala camp.did a couple of quick looks into it. i had found that for sept/oct it runs about 350.00 a nt.will have to keep this in mind.
thx, david

Unfortunately our hippo photos cannot convey the smell factor -- talk about dangerous -- hundreds of hippos in a thick "poop soup"!

Dave -- Swala Camp rocks. You literally don't have to leave the camp at all to see wildlife. I would have been in heaven just sitting out on the deck all day and watching the comings and goings at the waterhole. The managers are great, the staff is fantastic, the food is incredible. The only downside is that it is a long drive through the park to get there, really only worth the drive if you're staying at least two nights.

hi lisa been on safari a number of times now. i'm not one to rush out of a place or area if i can help it. i'll be expecting to stay 4nts there. if i decide to go that way. but me and basic camping get along so well
thx, david

Thanks for sharing the photos, Lisa. I have really enjoyed them. That baby vervet is indeed adorable! Also, the first lizard in the second album--is it an agama? I can see why you described it in your report as being different from any others!

No one we asked seemed sure whether that one was an agama or not. Its head was much larger than the other agamas we saw, and its turquoise and orange coloration was different than the pink and blue we saw on other agamas. But one person said it was an agama, so I don't know. When we first saw it, the color was changing, and we thought it might be some kind of a chameleon, but we were told it wasn't. Near Serengeti Serena was the only place we saw it.

The blue/pink bright color is the male Agama. The ordinary blue/green/gray is the gal! For some reason there are more guys sighted than gals... maybe the gals are smart enough to stay out of troubles way. Gals rock!

Lisa, great photos. Thanks.

Lovely album, thanks for sharing!

Thanks Lisa, these were incredible pictures! All were really enjoyable, you and Mark certainly captured the essence of the wildlife - I am going to a few of those place in June and cannot wait to see all those animals!
Is it OK if I refer to this thread for your photos in the East Afica Index - or if OK by you, could the links be added to your original Trip Report thread, that way it's all in one for future readers?

Sorry Lisa, I see you have already added the photo links to your original trip reports! If I would have just scrolled down a little further I would have seen that... Thanks!

Lisa:
I loved your photos.

I'm so glad you're all enjoying them!

And yes of course, Lynda, link away!

Thanks for sharing your photos - I really enjoyed them.

Yowza! These are truly great photos. Thanks, Lisa.

Lisa, thoroughly enjoyed your pictures. Tell me more about the boomslang--how long- how close? Thanks Dick

The boomslang was probably around 20-24 inches, and very slender. We were within a few feet. He really couldn't have been less interested in us!

One more boomslang comment--who had the trained eye to catch that? Nice photo. So were the rest. It was great to get the baby vervet shot. Even the adults are so hard to capture. It's nice to photograph the lions drinking and running rather than just sitting or sleeping. The zebra shots were lovely.

Thanks -- I think it may have been my husband who first saw the boomslang. Throughout the trip we each found ourselves sighting some things that no one else had. (Of course our guide was better than we were, but we each saw things the others didn't...which was nice...it kept all of us on our toes).

Just read your trip reports and looked at pictures. Wonderful! I go to Tanzania for 10 day safari on 4 Feb with my 22 yr old niece who just graduated from the University of Hawaii. I'm still trying to figure out money and how much to bring. What did you tip your guide for the two of you on a private safari? I'm thinking $300-$400. Is $1000 cash and $1000 in travellers checks enough? Is $300 in tanzania shillings enough? I've gotten all my planning info from this great board. Now to put all this info to good use. Any info would be appreciated.