We didn't get much sleep last night on account of lying petrified in the tent as a hyenna prowled around Monty and called out to its mates. In the morning we realised that one of the windows was left open by mistake and he could probably smell all the food we had inside - doh!
We were up again at first light and picked up our guide from the park headquarters. After initially seeing hippos and giraffe within the first 10 minutes we then spent another hour driving around seeing nothing. It's a lot harder to see animals in the Serengeti than in the confides of the crater. We weren't disapointed for long though when we came across a leopard and her baby. I never expected to see one leopard let alone two! About 20 mins later we then came upon a pride of lions laying on the road. We were able to drive right up to them and they weren't bothered at all. Another treat for the day was to see three baby cheetahs calling for their mother, who eventually returned, having been off to hunt (we think).
We dropped our guide off back at the headquarters at lunch time and started the long drive across the rest of the park to get to the exit (again before our time ran out!). On the way we noticed a huge amount of ugly flies in Monty which had a particularly nasty bite. Turns out they were tsetse flies - evil buggers that infect cattle with sleeping sickness. There were hundreds of them, attracted to Monty because of his large cow-like appearance! Still we should be grateful to the fly - it makes large areas of Tanzania uninhabitable to cows (and therefore humans) opening up lots of areas for national parks, but the bite bloody hurts!
We were given one last treat before leaving the park - a lone bull elephant standing in the middle of the road as we approached. We watched him for a while as he happily knocked down trees and devoured everything edible in sight!
On to Mwanza on Lake Victoria and a well earned sleep!