Mt Meru Game Lodge Arusha

... I was really very impressed. His wife made us traditional Tanzanian food for lunch, ugali (boiled, pounded corn), mataka (boiled bananas), potatoes and peas. It was good, much better than Guinean food.<br>From there we walked to a waterfall and then back. In all we walked about 17km and the blisters on my feet felt every kilometer. But I'm really glad we were able to get out of town even if we didn't get to see any animals. In about an hour we're off to Uganda, wish us luck!

... not have been insured so decided against it. We ended up in a small bus with 26 kids and 8 adults experience I can tell you specially as these busses normally sit around 15 adults. Halfway to the hotel though flat tire and godson (driver) could not find the jack or spanner to get the tire from underneath the car. Luckely at that time an empty (very rare I can tell you) dala dala (local small bus) came passed and we ended up in that bus to the hotel ...

... jog, and then, just as she crested the ridge the zebras caught sight of her and took off. By now she was only a few yards away though and she gave chase. Just as she leapt in the air onto the zebra&#8217;s back they went behind the ridge. Although I felt slightly gypped I was also sort of relieved not to see a gruesome kill. There was no way to know though whether she had actually got the zebra and so we took off for another angle ...

... that they be turned over to Tauck and they would be presented as a gift to the school in the Maasai village when we visit. <br><br>· Additionally, we were encouraged by friends who had visited Africa to bring shoes to leave behind because so many here walk miles each day barefooted, just to get a small amount of water back to their villages. Rachel suggested we leave a pair in each hotel as we go, with a note for the housekeeper ...

... mouth and is really fun to speak. I think there will be a huge difference between our stay here these last couple of days and at the end of the trip, and I can't wait to feel the difference. <br>We head off on Safari bright and early tomorrow and tonight i am learning about zebras so I can teach everyone in my jeep about them sometime in the next 4 days when we see zebras. We will be visiting a Maasai village tomorrow ...

... 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 ...