Tarangire

The last stop on safari was Tarangire National Park, which is home to a relatively permanent population of herd animals, specifically elephants. While we were able to approach close to the elephants we saw in other areas, that is not the case at Tarangire. Because the park is adjacent to an area where the elephants have been seriously hunted, elephants at Tarangire are very skittish of humans (a good idea), and have been known to be dangerous at times.

So we went expecting to see large herds of elephant only from a distance. To our great surprise, we managed to stumble onto several small groups with very young babies, some as young as two to three weeks old. With the early rains, we were also able to witness some waterhole behaviours that I felt very lucky to experience, as you can see here.