Rhino Lodge

We read that we would have the best chance of seeing black rhinos in Tanzania in the thick montane forests of the Ngorongoro Crater in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

But the only rhinos we saw decorated our rooms at the Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge where we stayed on the crater rim.

(For the record, our mandatory-for-self-drive-assigned game guide claimed he spotted a black rhino for us way across the crater floor from where we were viewing, but I am not counting it. Even using my high-powered binoculars, it looked like just a big fat black dot to me.)

amonyi means rhino in Swahili

rhino shuka quilts on the beds

No matter. We did see a real black rhino later on in the Serengeti ... and the Lodge did have a great flock of Marabou storks to entertain us!