Serengeti, Tanzania

Unfortunately, I am in no position to disclose too much about how this trip came about, but I was unexpectedly invited to join and stay in the Four Seasons Safari Lodge in the Serengeti National Park of Tanzania for an entire week. While in my wildest photographer dreams I had fantasized about going on a safari trip before, it never seemed like something even remotely feasible to me. It was a dream for another life, so to say. Just one of those things that you’re not sure you’ll ever actually get to experience.

After flying into the Kilimanjaro airport from Amsterdam, we had to take another short regional flight into the National Park to get to the lodge. The hour-long drive that followed from the small airstrip first introduced us to the wild beauty of the Serengeti. The natural landscape is just as stunning as you’d imagine it to be. I was surprised at how many different kinds of terrain we actually drove through. From wide open plains, best suited for the fast-paced hunting techniques of a cheetah, to the slightly more wooded steppe that provides shaded shelter and food to the leopards, lions, elephants, and giraffes of the Serengeti. We went out on safari game drives every single day of our stay there, successfully spotting the big 5. Our stay actually coincided with one of the biggest migrations happening in this particular part of the land where thousands and thousands of wildebeest and zebras moved through the grasses to eventually cross over the Mara River in the Northwest of the park. The sight of these gigantic herds of animals is something you have to witness in order to fully understand its grandness.