Pumba Safaris Tanzania

12/03/2024

Gorgeous golden hour in the Ndutu Conservation Area

Picture taken by Edwin Mramba

04/07/2023

We did it again - Travellers Choice award 2023 by Tripadvisor

01/07/2023

Mkomazi - the youngest national park in northeastern Tanzania, famous for the rhinos and wild dogs.

05/06/2023

Season started in Serengeti!!!

19/03/2023

19/03/2023

Special deal in November

23/04/2022

A special visitor at the Serengeti Naabi Gate.

14/04/2021

If you are following the great wildebeest migration, the migration is now moving from the central part of Serengeti to the eastern Serengeti moving forward the Northern part of the Serenegti. Whereby we expect them to be at the Northern Serengeti in the Second or third week of June. Come and join our Family to explore and see the beauty of Tanzania with Pumba Safaris Tanzania.

10/04/2021

Rise and shine on a beautiful Saturday morning at Serengeti national Park
Wake up to the sounds of the bush, the grunting chorus of over a million gnus (wildebeest), and soak up the sun that passes over the plains, and smiles through the silhouettes of Acacia Trees.
Who's ready to go on safari?

01/04/2021

We had a great encounter with this herd for elephant today in the Serengeti National park with a very curious teenager.

24/03/2021

What you didn't know about the Lions eyesight

A lions eyesight is arguably their most important sense. Along with a highly developed sense of smell and incredible hearing, these apex predators have a big advantage over most of their prey. Their eyesight, all though no better than ours during the day is far superior at night, lions are said to be able to see eight times better than us in the dark.
with highly developed night vision. This doesn’t mean they can see in the dark, if it where pitch black a lion would be blind as well. The way a lions eye is designed helps them pick up and amplify very faint light such as the that emitted from stars and the moon.Their eyes are able to enhance this faint light through a number of methods

Inside the eye
There are more rod cells than cone cells in the retina of the eye. These are photoreceptor (light-sensetive) cells, cone cells being colour sensitive and rod cells are light-sensitive. Lions having more light sensitive cells packed tightly in the fovea (most sensitive area of the retina), this means they only need 1/6th of the light that humans need to see in.Eye Shine, created by the reflective layer at the back of the eye.

Lions have what is known as a Tapetum lucidum, this is a reflective layer of cells positioned behind the retina. This means that light entering the eye will be absorbed by either the rod or cone cells, light that passes through the retina and the photoreceptor cells is reflected back by the Tapitum lucidum and the light-sensitive cells have a second chance to absorb the light waves, in effect doubling the effectiveness of their night vision. This reflective layer results in the eerie ‘eye shine’ that you see when you shine a light on animals at night.