Whilst we have been lucky to see some amazing wildlife in Africa to date it has been a little short of lion sightings for my liking so we very much went to the Serengeti in the hope of seeing some male lions as well as a pride of lions. Thanks to the skills of our guide Godson we were not disappointed. The first morning in the Serengeti we got up early and after the mandatory sunrise photo we stopped near an outcrop of rocks. Our guide then said to us "see that over there that is a lion and don't worry it is coming this way" (I couldn't even make out the lion with my binoculars).
We then watched in awe as a female lion walked our way and then jumped up on the rocks right in front of the vehicle content to snooze on the warm rocks with a full stomach (you could see the blood on her stomach from her kill that night).We spent the next hour watching as a big male lion, several juvenille males and females slowly walked over and got settled for the day on the rocks right in front of us with not another safari vehicle in sight.
Below are some of Dave's and my favourite photos (it was hard to choose given we took morew than 800) of the beautiful lions of the Serengeti.
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