A good chance for sure...

When guests come to Lamai Serengeti they often ask whether they stand a good chance to spot cats. In particular leopard and lion seem to be on their most wanted list. 

And a good chance they have.

Where sightings of any animals are always based on luck and coincidence, we can’t deny that there is some incredible cat activity right around Lamai Serengeti  and in the plains. With the vast herds of wildebeests right on our doorstep, cats enjoy the season that brings them life. 

Hence these beautiful shots! 

What makes us tick

At Lamai Serengeti we really feel this family team feeling. All of us try to pursue the same and that is  everything being just spot on this beautiful kopie. Throwing in heaps of enthusiasm, the whole team walks up and down our private hill throughout the day. And with that a giant appetite is created... 

Utterly concerned with this appetite is one person in particular, and that is our wonderful staff chef cook Ibrahim.

Voted one of the best staff cooks by members of our team that have travelled to various other camps, Ibrahim takes no prisoners if it comes to making sure people enjoy what they eat. 

Fighting appetite and pleasing taste buds with truly Tanzanian recipes, it is the golden glory of the morning that makes the staff team tick here at Lamai. 

So let Ibrahim introduce you to the world of the Lamai Mandazi. Served crispy and warm a better start of the day is hard to think of...

Lamai Mandazi 

-          2 cups of warm water

-          2 tsp baking powder

-          4 cups of flour

-          ½ cup of sugar

-          2 tablespoons of butter

-          Salt

-          Oil for deep frying

Fat Cat

With the season of plentiful getting up to steam now, cat life at Lamai Serengeti is getting seriously spectacular. Stocking up on food, this beautiful adult leopard took two wildebeest calves up his tree before he even started his meal. 

With his tree only a 10 minute drive out of Lamai Serengeti, on the banks of the Mara river, this was  one out of a million shot!

The migration is here

The migration is all around Lamai Serengeti and down towards the river; we took this crossing picture yesterday. The view from the main mess yesterday afternoon was amazing, wall to wall wildebeest stretching across in front of us. Of course this comes with lots of nocturnal noise and activity, predators are everywhere!

More rock lovers

We share Lamai Serengeti with lots of beautiful creatures. One of them is the marvellous coloured lizard known as the Rock Agama. Spending whole days on the top of our rocky boulders, it is the male Rock Agama’s that make sure they are seen!

Polygamous as they are, these guys have the commitment to continuously impress a high number of ladies, usually up to 7 or more! And how would you do that?

 

Well what seems to interest the Agama girls – and our guests - is the number of push ups the guys can make. And we are talking push ups in the whole day through, including the midday heat! As bountiful as they are, you are sure to meet these impressive reptiles when you come to Lamai Serengeti.

Season of plenty

With the first herds of wildebeests slowly moving into the Lamai area,  activity in the area will start peaking.

Just out of Lamai Serengeti our dear guest, Miss Gilbert, caught this cheetah noticing the vast herds of wildebeests that slowly move closer.

There is something very soothing in the cat’s glance...

The season of plenty has finally arrived.

Rocks that grow trees

Littered with huge granite boulders, there is something pretty special happening on our koppie. This time it’s not about animals or romance – it’s about trees that wrestle with boulders.

Whereas the Serengeti plains that lay downwind of our only active volcano in the area, are mostly barren and treeless, it's places like here, where tree roots find the little fertile ground they need to grow. Lacking the thick layers of volcanic ash of the plains that with the rains turn into rockhard cement, trees take their chance and grow their seeds especially around and under the ancient granite rocks. 

This is a place where trees take on massive stones that lay in their way. Having an argument over that the fertile earth that surrounds the rocks, the results are absolutely amazing. And there they grow – straight through, around or all over – headed for the sun!