Virtual African Safari with The Studio B Photography

Hello to all of you fellow homebodies!  Get ready to travel to Africa without having to leave your house!

Grab a beverage, put on your favorite pajamas (here are my current favorites from J. Crew) and prepare to take off!

For more details on the itinerary for our trip, visit this blog post.  I’ve divided the photos up by where we were when we took them.

I’ve tried to explain photos that needed some context to better understand what is happening.

There is so much excitement and drama to be seen out in the wild of Tanzania- it was like living in a television show.

There are some graphic images, so if you’re sharing these photos with your children, be prepared to skip ahead on a few of them!

If you have any questions about our trip or the photos, please ask! I love reliving this adventure!

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XOXO,

B

 

Driving through: Tarangire National Park | Lodging: Tarangire Treetops

 

We went on a walking safari inside Tarangire National Park and it was amazing. This zebra photo and the giraffe photo below were taken on foot.

This was the first lion we saw up close. She was up in a tree and caught us by surprise. We happened to look up and then BOOM there she was! She was so close that when she eventually jumped down from the tree, we heard her paws hit the ground. Incredible.

This herd of elephants was having a grand old time bathing in the mud!

Baby elephant drinking some milk from the patient momma.

Driving through: Lake Manyara Park + Ngorongoro Conservation Area | Lodging: Manor at Ngorongoro

Lake Manyara is known for their population of tree climbing lions. However, their population has declined over time. We were so lucky to see this beautiful lioness while we were there!

We didn’t get to see any lions actually hunt down an animal (they do most of their hunting at night) but this was the first pride we saw feasting on a kill.

Notice the jackal standing right behind the lion? They are scavengers and love stealing bits of what the lions have hunted. Below you’ll see he was eventually successful.

This baby zebra looks like it’s being sweet and snuggling mom. It was actually just hungry and kept annoying the mom until she finally got up and fed it.

Seeing a rhino is very rare, so we were thrilled to see one in the Ngorongoro Crater. Below is the traffic jam caused by the rhino walking by.

These baboons hang out at the gates to the national parks. Your guide fills out paperwork when you enter and when you exit, so the baboons have learned to wait until someone carelessly leaves their window open. Then they dart into the safari vehicle and steal food and drinks. This family was successful and managed to snatch an entire boxed lunch and a juice.

Visiting a Maasai village and then driving through Serengeti National Park | Lodging: Pioneer Camp

This lioness is wearing a tracking collar put on her by researchers.

The parallels between the way human children and animal children behave were hilarious. Here the lioness is growling at her kids who are insisting on being fed. AGAIN.

This guy was such a little punk and kept biting his sibling’s tail.

The tail biting game is all fun and games…until you get mom’s.

Quarantine vibes. The kids won’t give her space!

Baby lion pooping. Haha.

Thomson’s gazelle giving birth! It was incredible to see! She ended up hiding behind a shrub when it actually came out, but we could see it’s little head poking out once it was born. They are able to walk within an hour of being born, which allows them to avoid getting eaten.

It is very hard to keep cheetah cubs alive with all of the predators that exist in the Serengeti. The fact that this mother had managed to keep five of her babies alive to this age was exceedingly rare.

When lions are on the ground, they are often covered in flies. The flies leave them alone when they climb trees, which is how I was able to get these clear shots of her gorgeous face.

Driving though: Serengeti National Park | From Migration Camp

Hyenas are scavengers like jackals. They are so derpy. I love them.

There’s always a crowd of scavengers after the lions move on from a kill.

We traveled at the very beginning of the great wildebeest migration. They aren’t very smart animals, so they travel with zebras who act as their GPS to get them where they need to go.

We did another walking safari when we stayed at the Migration Camp. The camp is situated right on the Grumeti river which is filled with hippos. You can hear the hippos all throughout the day and night, it’s crazy. It was just us and two guides on the walk. They were both armed.

For this photo we were at the edge of the river and the hippos were just swimming around and hanging out. For the photo below, we were high up on a bunch of rocks and that hippo was not pleased to see us.