Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo followed for two hours, but in the end they had to leave because they didn't see any successful hunting. Lunch was at a place around the lake. We were asked to eat in the car and get off to rest after the meal. There were many eagles and beautiful birds that would come to ask for food.
Seeing a safari vehicle nearby feeding bread to an eagle, Yunluo told the guide Ema that he wanted to follow suit, but Ema went over and reprimanded him, and he left. Yunluo was unable to feed the eagle and couldn't even watch it.
The exciting moment has arrived! On the roadside, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo found the little lions they had been thinking about day and night. Four big lions led four baby lions.
The baby's playfulness fascinated Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. After waiting for an hour, when Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo moved forward, they suddenly found the carcass of a buffalo hidden in the deep pit!
Among the four lions, Blackhead was trying hard to pull out the internal organs. There was a moderate rain in the middle, and the little lions were protected by their mothers, showing a deep love for their cubs!
Later, many eagles flew over to try to snatch the lion's meal, and a battle between the lion and the eagle took place (only a short clip was recorded). When Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were about to leave, they found a black-backed jackal that had been standing by the side, motionless!
Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo guarded the lion family for about three hours. Due to time constraints, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo had to leave. They took another path and left the bottom of the volcano and came to the wildlife lodge on the edge of the crater. The scenery along the way was very beautiful. When they were about to reach the wildlife lodge, they found a thousand-year-old strangler tree.
As soon as we entered the wildlife lodge, we saw security guards armed with live ammunition. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were still lamenting that the security guards here actually carried guns.
Continuing forward, we saw some Maasai people in colorful clothes watching the flag-raising ceremony. I was amazed that even the flag-raising ceremony in this hotel was so grand.
Later, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo found out that the president of Tanzania was holding a meeting here. Yunluo was recording the video during this period. No one came up to interfere. Da L was even luckier to shake hands with the president, talk to him, and tell him that he was from China and welcomed him to China.
Yunluo and Xiao D went to eat later. When they passed the lounge, they found that the president was having a meeting there. There were some bodyguards around. They were very nice. They gently patted Yunluo's shoulder to indicate the direction Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo should go. They didn't show any bullying attitude.
This name is well-known and deeply rooted! Masai Mara is famous for the Mara River and the Great Migration. But it is actually only a small part of Serengeti. From the map, it is like the relationship between a palm and a finger. Serengeti is the palm, and Masai Mara is just a finger on the palm. The area of Serengeti is 14,763 square kilometers.
The moment the car entered the park, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were inexplicably excited. The ever-changing prairie was different from what we imagined and saw on TV. It turned out to be so big that you could never see the edge, really the end. If you compare it with the prairie in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, it is really a small witch compared to a big witch.
The acacia trees in between told Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo that this was a typical African style. Here, nature overwhelmed all living things!
It was different from what we imagined. We thought we would be scorched like Ambo. Maybe it was because it was a little far from the equator, or maybe it was because it was cloudy. During the four days in Serengeti, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo did not feel the heat. On the contrary, they felt cold in the morning and evening, with a slight breeze blowing.
In this vast land, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo saw the deep love between the leopard (the one that climbed the tree) and its son; saw the three cheetah brothers (the fastest); saw how the gazelle escaped from the lion's mouth right under the lion's nose; saw Peng Peng who was hidden in the tree by the leopard; the hippopotamus came ashore and was angry at Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo; the leopard stopped in front of Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's car; and there was also a group of hungry lions with a baby who had failed in their hunt.
Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo experienced a lovely guide looking for medicine for them; they experienced the night when a spotted hyena was outside Yunluo's tent and Yunluo was so scared that she didn't dare to cry; they experienced the dark night and heard the roar of a lion under their feet.
Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were lucky. But Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were not satisfied. On the day of leaving, Yunluo and Xiaod could not hold back their tears. They were reluctant to leave. They were still reluctant to leave. For the first time, they did not want to go home. For the first time, they did not want to leave. For the first time, they were so reluctant to leave. (Writing this brought back memories and my eyes became red).
We checked out of Ngorongoro at ten o'clock in the morning and arrived at Serengeti, the most important destination of Nalanshiqi and Yunluo's trip.
Shortly after leaving Ngoro, Yunluo saw a group of giraffes on the side of the road and shouted stop. Ema stopped the car in time. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo saw a scene of gentlemen fighting.
A Masa giraffe and a reticulated giraffe were fighting each other, and a slightly smaller reticulated giraffe next to them kept trying to stop the fight, but unfortunately failed because it was too short. Ema told Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo that if an older giraffe came to stop the fight, the fight would stop.
From the moment they entered the Serengeti, Yunluo kept repeating "leopard, leopard". Up to that time, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo had seen cheetahs and lions, the only thing missing was a leopard that could climb trees.
Only after entering the prairie did Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo discover that animals and nature were in perfect harmony and could not be easily discovered. Most of the time, even if Ema told Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo the direction, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo would still keep asking: where where?? Not to mention the leopards hiding in the trees far away from the road.
During those days in Serengeti, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo found that if you want to be hurt by animals, it is harder than winning 5 million. It takes a lot of time and effort to find animals. The Japanese man who was attacked to death by a leopard in a tree, should we say he was too lucky or too unlucky? Others couldn't find him, and if they did, they were far away. He was able to get off the car to relieve himself without the guide's consent, and was attacked by the leopard in the tree...
From the moment they entered the Serengeti, Ema had been trying to help Nalanshiqi and Yunluo find animals. Because the car had no radio and the Serengeti was too vast, Ema's mobile phone was an indispensable means of communication. He also kept greeting and asking questions of passing vehicles. Every time, Nalanshiqi and Yunluo tried to identify the only words in Swahili that Nalanshiqi and Yunluo knew: simba; duma.
Ema first circled around several trees where he often saw leopards; then he went to a tree where he heard a leopard had stayed yesterday, but found nothing.
Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo stayed in Serengeti for two nights in a camp and one night in a lodge. The chef also had to set up the tent and prepare dinner, so Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo had to give up looking for Leopard and go to the camp first.
There is a big bucket in the camp, which is the water source; the two big cage-like structures are the restaurant and kitchen.
There is a restroom + bathroom three minutes walk from the giant restaurant. The rest of the open space is scattered with tents.
To Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's surprise, there were a lot of people in the camp. On the first day, except for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, there were only a lot of young Europeans from all over the world. The ratio was 1:10.
Early in the morning, I climbed up the mountain and took these photos (tourists are not allowed to climb this mountain, it is dangerous and will be fined, but no one told me. When I found out, I broke out in a cold sweat. I will talk about it in detail later)
The rectangular house in the photo is the restaurant; but meals can also be eaten in the open space; the round house vaguely visible under the tree is the kitchen; the restroom is located under two or three trees on the left side of the road; continuing along the road is another campsite, which shares a restroom; Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's tents are the two with small roofs.
After putting down Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's luggage and the necessary items for camping, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo set out again to look for leopard.
The god of luck came at some point. Not long after Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo left the camp, they heard about the leopard. Ema stepped on the accelerator and sped away. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were excited and nervous. The safari vehicles that were not usually seen appeared from nowhere. From a distance, they could see the dust raised behind the vehicles.
When Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo arrived, more than a dozen cars had already parked, and everyone's cameras and binoculars were pointed at a tree in the distance. How disappointing, what can you see from such a distance???
The conversation in the car is as follows:
Yunluo: Is it eating something? What animal’s tail is it?
Big L: No. It's sleeping, it's not moving.
Yunluo: No, it is eating, it is moving.
Xiao D: It is licking my hand.
Big L: It's not moving, it's sleeping
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Yunluo: Are there two? Which one are you looking at? Yunluo is looking at the right one.
Big l: This one is on the left.
Sure enough, there were two. The one on the left was the mother with her eyes closed, and the one that Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo found was the baby, eating an antelope at a higher position.
How can you say that the god of luck has come? This scene is very rare. Ema kept saying, solucky, solucky.
EMA judged that the little leopard was a male based on its fur color. It was very independent and very protective of its food. It even competed with its mother leopard, who worked hard to hunt for it, for antelopes. The little leopard would pluck the fur of its prey when eating it.
After the mother leopard remained motionless for nearly an hour, they staged a mother-son love show for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo that amazed everyone.
A special vehicle with a permit had been staying there, and the photographer had prepared the flash for the evening photo shoot. This type of marked vehicle could go deep into the grassland. After the other vehicles left, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo had to leave as well.
Back at the camp, Xiao L's condition worsened, and it was then that Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo realized that Lens only provided tents but no sleeping bags. Xiao L and his friends only brought two fleece sleeping bags, and Xiao L was sick.
Nalanshiqi and Yunluo judged from Ngoro's experience that the night would be very cold, so they asked Ema for help. Ema first gave his and the chef's moisture-proof mat to Xiao L, and then gave their sleeping bags to Xiao L. Still feeling that it was lacking, Ema drove to borrow a blanket. When the blanket was borrowed back, Nalanshiqi and Yunluo had already eaten dinner.
I am especially grateful for ema's help. He didn't even have time to eat dinner and went around to borrow blankets for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. Although in the end, the blankets were not used. At night in the tent, Da L only covered himself with a fleece sleeping bag, which was just the right temperature. On the second night, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo returned the blankets to ema.
At noon, Ema took Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo to find doctors to give Xiao L an appetite-stimulating medicine. These were not requests from Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, but were proposed by Ema. These were not Ema's job, but he enthusiastically helped Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo solve them. Let's talk about Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's dinner. Chef Rima brought a surprise to Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo
From today on, the chef will prepare three meals for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo for the next two days. Looking at the chef, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo felt that the days of eating instant noodles were coming. (I brought ten packs of instant noodles with me, and finally left four packs on Sang Island)
Little l was sick, so I cooked two packets of hot noodles + two eggs; and Yunluo and big l cooked one packet of noodles and two eggs.
I went to the restaurant with the instant noodles, thinking that I wouldn't have to worry about the bad meal because I had the noodles to fill my stomach.
In the restaurant, the table for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo had already been set, with a large bowl of popcorn on it. Unfortunately, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo didn't like it, so they didn't taste it. The lights were very dim. A group of tourists coming down from Qili were eating with headlamps, and Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo had candles prepared by Xiao D, which felt quite atmospheric.
A serving of cream soup was served first, and it tasted delicious. Soon, Nalan Shiqi, Yunluo and the other two almost divided up the whole pot of soup.
Next was the salad, which was very appetizing, and then the beef stew, which tasted very fragrant. Finally, there was fruit.
The instant noodles - China noodles were left over after being tasted by the chef and Ema.
For the remaining meals, the chef made fried rice for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, who were very happy with the food. There was also a very very very very very delicious pizza, Yunluo ate a large piece for the first time, which was even more flavorful than Pizza Hut. There was also braised chicken wings. In short, every meal made Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo satisfied and drooled.
Of course, not all tourists are lucky enough to meet such a good chef. When Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were having dinner, the chef at the table next to them came to urge them to clean up before they finished eating. It was very rude. This situation has never happened to Ema. (To be continued...)