Mt Meru Game Lodge Arusha

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Took the kids swimming thursday afternoon in the local river (yes the phone one) water getting too deep though for the little ones due to much rain lately so will have to be carefull there ...

... trucks here of different companies (except 2 Kumuka trucks), fortunately not all have their passengers…some are in the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro crater. Having a barbeque tonight and then off to the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti NP with Fun Safaris tomorrow.

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19th - Picked up by Fun Safaris for a long drive to the Serengeti (In Swahili, Serengeti means Endless Plain) via the entrance of Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area ...

... sad that tourism is the basis :( learnt about their lifestyle i would have been married 3 years ago, men marry at 25, soldiers before, wear gorgoues wamr tribe clothing and have many ear rrings! they did a tribe dance and we got to see their little houses!! the massai move on every so often ehich is why their houses are so small!! awesome to see a tribe still!!! then the nurgoro crater whihc cos we saw the tribe we were late arrriavel apparently elephants were at camp before we ...

... so he will be deaf within a year; or how all scrubs are washed together in a bucket, and patients with TB are placed in the same room as patients without TB; or how while delivering a stillborn from an HIV+ mother, a doctor wasn't wearing gloves. It makes me want to shake them - just put on damn gloves, just wash your hands with soap before you eat, just use freaking toilet paper (because not all of them do), and your country will be so much healthier. But there's no money ...

... about 7 hours of searching out game it was time to make it to the campsite. Not just any old campsite but one without any fences of armed guards to stop the animals from walking through the campsite.

The early morning start and game drive was nothing short of sensational. Cheetahs stalking Gazelle,Lions stalking Zebra and Wildebeest. Before too long it was time to leave and head to ...

... the system was cranked up to the loudest possible level, so that after two hours of singing and then powerfully voiced Biblical explication I couldn't even process information anymore and had to either leave early or curl into a ball with my ears covered. So, though the service was very nice, I don't think I'll be going back- mostly because of the extreme physical discomfort - except maybe to get some photos of the Waterfall because it's amazing.

... sheer beauty, such colours! Massai (local tribe on which I'll write a lot more later), whom we saw from the window, were abundant. They are very colourful and skinny and fearless... wondering around barefoot (or in flip flops made of old tires) with their sticks and waiving at cars, or selling something. Little ones are taking care of the cattle, those a bit older seem to go to school or hang out with small children, adults... looks like they are having a ...

Sprinting repeatedly up and down three flights of stairs and across the width of a football field this afternoon in order to file a couple of last minute motions was, I admit, kind of thrilling. It feels good to have a job where urgency sometimes requires you to work up a sweat. All this ...

... Antelope, Ostrich, Hippos, Baboons, Buffalo, etc - these guys come in droves to enjoy the scenery and observe the migration. FOTOS: Awesome stuff. Defying my maxim of less is more, here are a bunch of fotos from the week-long safari (just way too many cool fotos)!!! You'd be amazed by how close you get to the wildlife!!! (note - for brevity's sake fotos of elephants and hippos appear in previous entry as they're in Botswana and Serengeti)

After four days which seem have both flown by, despite it feeling like a very long time since I last wrote, we have returned, like a bunch of budding David-Attenboroughs, from safari. Our open-topped land cruiser has taken us from Lake Manyara, not far west of Arusha, past Ngorongoro Crater all the way to the middle of the Serengeti and I'm pleased to say we saw plenty of animals along the way! This really ...