We kept a running list of all the animals we saw on safari in both Malawi and Tanzania. Some animals we saw in abundance (here's looking at you impala, hippos and wildebeests) and some we saw only once or twice. This list includes all the mammals, only one lizard (the rest known locally just as "lizard"), probably about 30% of the bird species, and none of the insect or plant species. I guess that is just the way of the safari world. These are listed in the order and park where we first saw them, but most we also saw later too. 
 
 Majete: 
 Impala 
 Nyala 
 Turtle 
 Sable 
 Warthog 
 Yellow baboons 
 Ground hornbill 
 Kudu 
 Trumpeter hornbill 
 African Elephant 
 Pied Kingfisher 
 Brown headed parrot 
 Helmeted Guineafowl 
 Water buck 
 Hippopotamus 
 Nightjars 
 Lions 
 Spotted eagle owl 
 Lizard buzzards 
 Termina? Kosa 
 Golden web spider 
 Yellow billed kite 
 Hadeda Ibis 
 Boehm’s Bee-eaters 
 Little bee-eater 
 Bushbucks 
 Nile Crocodile 
 Egyptian geese 
 African grey hornbill 
 Whiteback vulture 
 Tree squirrel 
 Zebra 
 African Golden oriole 
 Eland 
 Lilac-breasted roller 
 African jacana 
 
 Zomba Plateau: 
 Forest cobra 
 Vervet monkey 
 Blue - Samango monkey 
 Exclamatory paradise whydah 
 
 Mvuu: 
 Cattle egrets 
 Great white egret 
 Open bill stork 
 Banded mongoose 
 White tail mongoose 
 Water monitor lizard 
 Martial Eagle 
 Porcupine 
 African civet 
 Small spotted genet 
 Side striped jackal 
 Barn owl 
 Cheetah 
 Amethyst sunbird 
 Trumpeter hornbill 
 Southern ground hornbill 
 Brown throated weaver 
 Wooly necked stork 
 Bush pig 
 Serval 
 Mellers mongoose 
 African fish eagle 
 Purple indigobird 
 
 Ngorongoro: 
 Giraffe 
 Crown crane 
 Buffalo 
 Wildebeest 
 Male lion 
 Black rhinoceros 
 Ostrich 
 Kori bustard 
 Flamingo 
 Grant’s gazelle 
 Thompson gazelle 
 Spotted Hyena 
 
 Serengeti: 
 Wire backed Vulture 
 Nubian vulture 
 Leopard (completing big 5 in one day!) 
 Topi 
 Secretary bird 
 Dwarf mongoose 
 Rock Hyrax 
 African Hoopoe 
 Dikdik 
 Striped mongoose 
 Falcon 
 Blacktailed hare 
 Hartebeest 
 Superb Starling 
 Grey go away bird 
 White headed buffalo weaver 
 Marabou stork 
 Olive baboon 
 Golden jackal 
 Flap eared chameleon 
 Goliath heron 
Malawi and Tanzania
We kept a running list of all the animals we saw on safari in both Malawi and Tanzania. Some animals we saw in abundance (here's looking at you impala, hippos and wildebeests) and some we saw only once or twice. This list includes all the mammals, only one lizard (the rest known locally just as "lizard"), probably about 30% of the bird species, and none of the insect or plant species. I guess that is just the way of the safari world. These are listed in the order and park where we first saw them, but most we also saw later too. 
 
 Majete: 
 Impala 
 Nyala 
 Turtle 
 Sable 
 Warthog 
 Yellow baboons 
 Ground hornbill 
 Kudu 
 Trumpeter hornbill 
 African Elephant 
 Pied Kingfisher 
 Brown headed parrot 
 Helmeted Guineafowl 
 Water buck 
 Hippopotamus 
 Nightjars 
 Lions 
 Spotted eagle owl 
 Lizard buzzards 
 Termina? Kosa 
 Golden web spider 
 Yellow billed kite 
 Hadeda Ibis 
 Boehm’s Bee-eaters 
 Little bee-eater 
 Bushbucks 
 Nile Crocodile 
 Egyptian geese 
 African grey hornbill 
 Whiteback vulture 
 Tree squirrel 
 Zebra 
 African Golden oriole 
 Eland 
 Lilac-breasted roller 
 African jacana 
 
 Zomba Plateau: 
 Forest cobra 
 Vervet monkey 
 Blue - Samango monkey 
 Exclamatory paradise whydah 
 
 Mvuu: 
 Cattle egrets 
 Great white egret 
 Open bill stork 
 Banded mongoose 
 White tail mongoose 
 Water monitor lizard 
 Martial Eagle 
 Porcupine 
 African civet 
 Small spotted genet 
 Side striped jackal 
 Barn owl 
 Cheetah 
 Amethyst sunbird 
 Trumpeter hornbill 
 Southern ground hornbill 
 Brown throated weaver 
 Wooly necked stork 
 Bush pig 
 Serval 
 Mellers mongoose 
 African fish eagle 
 Purple indigobird 
 
 Ngorongoro: 
 Giraffe 
 Crown crane 
 Buffalo 
 Wildebeest 
 Male lion 
 Black rhinoceros 
 Ostrich 
 Kori bustard 
 Flamingo 
 Grant’s gazelle 
 Thompson gazelle 
 Spotted Hyena 
 
 Serengeti: 
 Wire backed Vulture 
 Nubian vulture 
 Leopard (completing big 5 in one day!) 
 Topi 
 Secretary bird 
 Dwarf mongoose 
 Rock Hyrax 
 African Hoopoe 
 Dikdik 
 Striped mongoose 
 Falcon 
 Blacktailed hare 
 Hartebeest 
 Superb Starling 
 Grey go away bird 
 White headed buffalo weaver 
 Marabou stork 
 Olive baboon 
 Golden jackal 
 Flap eared chameleon 
 Goliath heron 

1.
Foreword
2.
The Itinerary
3.
Packing
4.
Cairo - Part 1
5.
Cairo - Part 2
6.
Sites of Ancient Egypt
7.
Egyptian Temples
8.
Valley of the Kings
9.
Egyptian Culture and Final Thoughts
10.
From Egypt to Morocco
11.
Northern Morocco
12.
Water and Climate Issues
13.
Cultural Capital of Morocco
14.
The Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
15.
The Road of 1000 Kasbahs and onto Marrakech
16.
A Wee Break in Londontown
17.
Malawi - First Impressions
18.
BEE World Pastor's Course
19.
Malawi’s National Parks
20.
Zomba Plateau
21.
Malawi, a Retrospective
22.
Plant with Purpose Tanzania
23.
Tanzania Safari
24.
Safari Animal Sighting List
25.
Enchanting Istanbul
26.
Classical Turkey & the Aegean Coast
27.
Cappadocia
28.
Lisbon
29.
Portugal's Heartland
30.
A Rocha Visit and the Southern Coast of Portugal
31.
Welcome
32.
Looking Back and Moving Forward
33.
...and home!
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