Wildafrica Manyara Lodge
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I don't like cricket...I love Terrorhawks...
Up at 7.30am to cook brekkie of French Toast for all - nice change from Weetabix..
We arrived at Zebra camp by lunchtime and set up camp marvelling at how short our journey was in comparison to recent days! Tomorrow, however, it all changes!
Vikki started scrubbing our 'smalls' in the washing up bowls while Paula wrote up the final couple of days of the travel blog, we've been very remiss with keeping it up and had 10 days worth of text to catch up ...
Back on the road
... We were not without drama on this journey either though, surprisingly it was more mechanical issues!!!! We arrived that night at a port city called Mwanza on the shores of the lake. En route from the park to this city I realised that there was something drastically wrong with the steering on the Landy. Felt like there was large gusts of wind throwing me about on the road, but there was no wind. After a while I realised that when accelerating the vehicle veered ...
Getting closer to the Peak
... after the first 15 minutes it was OK and we ascended to 4200m. Then we saw that we had to descend back down to pretty much the earlier elevation of 3900m, so all our hard work would be undone! Then it was up again and down again and up again. Lunchtime was at 4030m this time. Konrad started looking a bit pale and he didn't hold his food down. The poor thing, we gave him some lollies and hydrolites, that Chris and I had packed for these situations. ...
Long ride to Arusha
... he did other than take off and landing. You have to love auto pilot. We were met at the airport by Kevin who will be our personal guide for the next week. He brought us to the Arusha Coffee Lodge which is very nice. We got cleaned up and had lunch and are now relaxing. He is going to meet us at 9am tomorrow to set off on our first game drive and to our next destination! We are hoping to get views of Mt Kilamanjaro along the ...
Hakuna Matata
... be a convoy of about 20 safari jeeps fighting for the best view. It seemed that the animals weren’t phased by the cars at all, often not being aroused from their sleep or stubbornly remaining in the middle of the road. There were so many animals spread out over such a large, endless space. It got to a stage where we lost the excitement every time we spotted zebras, gazelles or wilder beast. We had some good times joking around with the other two couples. ...
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