Lying at one end of the Great Valley of East Africa, only the area around the lake is covered with dense greenery. This is the home of hippos and many water birds. Jamal mentioned that there are also flamingos here, but Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo didn't see any.

Hippos are very scary animals. Their rate of injuring people is much higher than that of lions. They are timid and irritable. They can swim very fast in the water. So Yunluo, who can't swim at all, was scared to death. Every time he saw a family of hippos, Yunluo's heart would beat fast. He kept saying, "Don't get close, don't get close."

Spend $3 to buy a fish and watch the moment when the osprey flies from the treetops to the lake to catch the bird. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo did not spend the money, but only watched the boatman's test fish. Except for Yunluo who recorded the moment when the osprey caught the fish with its claws, the other two did not get anything.

On a stretch of water connected to the land, many waterbucks were grazing. In the distance, giraffes and zebras were leisurely grazing. Crowned cranes were dancing. It was the first time that Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo saw wild giraffes from a distance. Crowned cranes were dancing.

After the lake cruise, classmate D's Lei Peng left Lake Naivasha and went to the hotel in Nakuru town first. After putting down the luggage and picking up the lunch box, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo drove for another three hours to arrive at Lake Bogoria.

During the journey, Jamal persuaded Nalanshiqi and Yunluo to give up Lake Bogoria and go to Lake Nakuru instead. Yunluo and Xiaod flatly refused. After returning to Beijing, I saw other people's photos of Nakuru and found that there were very few flamingos. Haha, Yunluo is wise, v5~

The first time I had a bad roast chicken, it was too hard to eat. The lunch box was divided into chicken legs and chicken wings. Chicken legs tasted better than chicken wings. But every time Yunluo and Xiaol got only chicken wings, two poor people.

Lake Bogoria is located in the middle of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, about 300 kilometers from Nairobi. It is a shallow saltwater lake, close to the steep Siracho cliffs on the east.

The Great Rift Valley of East Africa completely tears the "skin of the earth" apart here. In the Bogoria Lake area, it is easy to see hot springs gushing out from deep underground. The water temperature can be as high as 95°C. Therefore, its water source mainly comes from mountain streams and hot springs gushing out from underground.

Lake Bogoria is a real paradise for flamingos. Flamingos live in saltwater lakes and feed mainly on aquatic organisms. Lake Bogoria is "funded" by underground hot springs, and its salinity and alkalinity are combined with the evaporation caused by the hot climate.

The Kesubo wetlands on the north side of the lake are home to more than 200 species of birds. The highest record in Kenya shows that within 1 hour, the flamingos can live here.

96 bird species were observed, with a very high density. There is a sparse jungle on the edge. In this isolated woodland, if you are lucky, you can also see leopards, caracals, and small mountain antelopes... Tourists can hike in most areas around Lake Bogoria and get closer to the fire.

On the return trip, Jamal brought the park ranger with him with the consent of Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo.

Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo learned from the ranger that a male lion had visited the lake three days ago. It had a long mane and was bathing and resting by the lake, so the rangers had been patrolling with AK-47s in the past few days. The lion had just left today. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were very excited to hear the news, but they also felt sorry for not being able to see its majesty.

The administrator had a pair of eagle-like eyes. It was already past five in the afternoon when we returned. The animals began to become active, and all the animals that we had not seen on the way here came out. At this time, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo had not seen real wild animals, and seeing ostriches and gazelles really made everyone overly excited.

This is my favorite, a real fairy, with such beautiful eyes, which makes people happy and love it. I can always recall the surprise when I saw those beautiful eyes in the DV camera.

Dik dik. Lives in bushes and forests. In places with water and rocks. Very timid, jumps very high.

It was past nine in the evening when Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo returned to the hotel in Nakuru. Due to the time difference, it was already two in the morning in Beijing. Yunluo and Xiaod were already drowsy, and Yunluo, due to his age, began to panic and planned to give up dinner. After everyone persuaded him that "the body is the capital of revolution", he ate dinner in a daze.

It was a standard western meal. I have forgotten what I ate. It tasted good, but the soup was really memorable for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. This green vegetable soup, mixed with the smell of onions, really scared Yunluo.

This looks like the discarded residue when Yunluo squeezes fruit and vegetable juice. Da L actually said it tasted good and drank it all. The light is too bad, the photo is blurry, everyone, please take a look.

This is the hunting ground described by Hemingway in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro".

Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, has a plain on its north side called Ambo. When it was an animal reserve, it covered an area of ​​3,248 square kilometers, but when it was changed to a national park in 1974, only 392 square kilometers remained.

Ambow is the best place to see Kili in its best form. Kili's peak is in Tanzania, but Nalanshiqi and Yunluo cannot get close to it due to their own conditions, so Ambow becomes the only choice for Nalanshiqi and Yunluo to see its beauty.

Although it is not called camping, this is a luxury camp. In the spacious tent, there are beds, mosquito nets, power strips, adapters, candles. Behind the bed is the washing area, where the toilet, shower, and basin are all in separate areas.

Very convenient. There is a rest chair outside. If you are too tired, you can watch Kilimanjaro during the day and the stars at night. I forgot to take photos. Here is the night view, big and small. At night, I tasted red wine outside the camp, played with scorpions, and admired the stars in the sky.

The road leading to the camp, the people in green clothes are waiters. You can't see the waiters normally, but they appear out somehow when they are needed. On the last day of Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, they set out early in the morning to watch the sunrise and check out. They were worried that no one would take their luggage, so the waiter's figure appeared as soon as they stepped out of the camp.

Kibo's semi-open-air restaurant, various small birds come in from time to time to look for food. There is a huge tree outside the restaurant, with branches and leaves spread out, providing shade and sun, and you can dine under the tree. Many birds come to patronize. There is also a bar, where Big L and Little L patronize from time to time. Kibo's buffet tastes good and has a good variety.

You need to pay special attention to sun protection in Anbo. I just took a few photos by the swimming pool. I just applied sunscreen this morning. I was lazy and didn't apply it again. It hurt after a while. It stung when I washed my face.

Jamal often says: many, many elephants. A few minutes before reaching Kibo Camp, Nalanshiqi and Yunluo saw elephants, but because of Jamal's "many, many elephants, and must check in first", they did not stop to take pictures.

Yunluo was still a little dissatisfied. It was not until Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo officially entered NP that Yunluo understood what manymanyelephants were. The elephant family in front of Kibo Camp, the first time I saw an elephant and the distance was only more than ten meters. My heart was about to jump out.

Baby is crossing the road. You need to be careful at this moment, because the engine sound can easily scare the baby elephant, and once the baby elephant is frightened, the elephant will protect the baby and get angry, so when the baby is crossing the road, you must not get too close to the front. The leader goes first, and when the baby crosses the road, all the elephants in the herd will stop eating until they see the baby elephant safely step into the grass on the other side.

Seeing this photo, Yunluo now recalls Jamal's happy laughter pointing to Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo: baby kiss. Looking back at the video, Jamal's laughter appears from time to time, which makes people miss it. It is also known from the video that the two baby elephants are not kissing, but the smaller one is trying to get some grass from the other one's mouth.

There are many white cattle egrets around each elephant.

The cattle egret is the only heron that does not feed on fish but only insects. It has formed a dependent relationship with livestock, especially buffalo. It appears in the drier parts of the wetland, often with buffalo. It often follows livestock to prey on insects that are startled from the water grass by livestock, and often rests on the backs of cattle, hence the name "cattle egret".

48-cm long, 90-cm wingspan. 300-400 g in weight, lifespan 15 years. Thick bill, short thick neck, almost all white in winter, feet tinged with yellow-green. Head, neck, back, etc. turn light yellow during breeding season, bill and feet tinged with red. In breeding season, the feathers on the head, neck, upper chest and center of the back of male adult birds are light yellow to orange-yellow, and the rest of the body is pure white. Winter feathers are almost all white. Males and females are the same color.

It was really exciting to be so close to these wild and bad-tempered behemoths. These behemoths had just been bathed.

Gazelle is the most common animal. The ones fighting are Grants gazelle. The belly is white, and the female has black stripes on the belly.

The white T-shaped stripe from the buttocks to the base of the tail is unique to East Africa. It migrates like the wildebeest, but not for water but to find delicious food, so its migration route is different from that of the wildebeest, and sometimes it moves in the opposite direction of the wildebeest.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

The annual wildebeest migration will be held in the Mara River in Masai Mara from May to September. This scene can be used as an excuse for next time. Although many people, including Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, also want to see the scene in the Mara River, the wildebeests in front of them are really not interesting.

At this moment, every time Xiao D sees wildebeests, the words "too ugly, so ugly" echo in his ears. Indeed, they are really too ugly.

Spotted hyena (in Serengeti, they are the ones who visited Yunluo's tent) hyena eating the buffalo head caught by the lion. The story goes like this, on the afternoon of the 9th, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were on safari and heard on the radio that a lion had appeared. When Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo arrived, dozens of cars were surrounding a grassland.

It is said that the lions were inside, and a group of hyenas were wandering around the periphery of the grassland. Usually, when you see this situation, it means that the lions have caught prey and the hyenas are waiting for an opportunity to steal it. The next morning, when Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were on safari again, they saw the following scene at the same place.

Hyenas have a strict hierarchy. The one that is eating is obviously at the end of the group. Most hyenas have already eaten and drunk their fill and are resting with their eyes closed.

As soon as they entered np. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo saw a lion, a lioness. It was not known whether it had just hunted or for some other reason, but it walked from a distance to the shade of a tree, panting heavily and motionless. It was very far away, and after watching for a while, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo left.

When we were about to approach the observation hill, a small group of elephants appeared. A baby elephant that was not yet proficient in putting grass into its mouth stood on the edge of the roadbed and repeated the action of rolling up the grass with its trunk, dropping it, and rolling it up again.

If the car drove past the baby elephant at this time and startled the baby elephant, the consequences would be serious. So Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo had to turn off the car and watch the baby elephant practice its trunk.

There were even elephants walking by the car, within reach of Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, and they were excited and nervous at the same time. After waiting for nearly 20 minutes, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo gradually felt bored, but there was nothing they could do. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo could only wait, because this was the world of others, the world of animals.

It is very small and often stays away from the driveway. Even if it is very close to the driveway, its color makes it difficult to be found in the bushes, so the photo below is very precious. It was taken in the evening, all thanks to the 400 telephoto lens.

I always thought this was a lynx, but after searching on Google, I realized that it is not the same as a lynx at all, it is called a caracal. In Tanzania, Seqi and Yunluo also saw African servals, which are even more beautiful animals.

The videos compiled include: caracal, serval found in Serengeti, meerkats, black-backed jackals, hyenas trying to steal Pumbaa, mating lions, and eagles.

A cat of the family Catidae. It is a solitary or territorial cat. The caracal can survive for long periods without drinking water - the need for water is met by the water in the body of the prey.

Caracals are sometimes called desert lynx or African lynx because, like lynxes, they have large, pointed ears with long, black tufts of hair.

But the caracal and lynx are not similar species. In terms of body shape, the caracal is slightly smaller, about 60-95cm long, with a slender body and slender limbs. Their tails are also longer than those of lynxes, about 1/3 of their body length.

The fur color of the caracal is generally light yellow-brown or dark red-brown, with white hair on the abdomen, around the eyes and on the chin. At the same time, there is a thin black line at the corner of the eye that extends all the way to their nose. The back of their large ears is black. (To be continued...)