Safari Day 8 - Journey to the Serengeti

After a wonderful day in the Ngorongoro Crater, we had a long travel day to get into the Serengeti National Park.  As Shannon mentioned earlier, we had left paved roads and had about 5 or 6 hours of bumpy roads and the occasional vague path we followed through open plains.  We did stop once at Olduvai Gorge.

Olduvai Gorge is like Disney World for archaeologists and was one of the first places that helped explain human evolution with remains of homo erectus, homo habilis and homo sapiens all in different layers of the gorge.

One of the cool discussions of the gorge was a sort-of call for peace from our tour guide as ultimately we're all brothers and sisters.  Below is the gorge:

And after hours in the car, things got a little silly.

Once we got to Kusini Camp where we would spend three nights, we went out on a quick afternoon game drive.  This was just a taste of the great Serengeti game drives to come the following day!