Near the end of our morning drive through
Ngorongoro Crater the sun was starting to get very high in the sky and very hot. Most game drives were between 6am-11am and 3:30pm-6pm because the mid-day African sun is sweltering. From out in the distance a pair of lions with no available source of shade were wandering towards our line of vans along the roadside.
We felt very lucky and awed that they chose the shade of our particular van to lie down in, allowing for a wonderful photo opp. To be sure you can all tell how close they were, the rail from the side of our van is in the bottom of the shot, and the bump in the right of the shadow is the top of my hat.
We were sure to keep all the windows rolled up and not lean too far out of the van, but I'm sure they were too hot and tired to want to give anyone trouble. We enjoyed their company for quite awhile and then rudely took our shade with us in search of other adventure in the crater... we would have loved to stay longer but visits to the crater are very limited in time and we were almost out of ours.
We felt very lucky and awed that they chose the shade of our particular van to lie down in, allowing for a wonderful photo opp. To be sure you can all tell how close they were, the rail from the side of our van is in the bottom of the shot, and the bump in the right of the shadow is the top of my hat.
We were sure to keep all the windows rolled up and not lean too far out of the van, but I'm sure they were too hot and tired to want to give anyone trouble. We enjoyed their company for quite awhile and then rudely took our shade with us in search of other adventure in the crater... we would have loved to stay longer but visits to the crater are very limited in time and we were almost out of ours.
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