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Joe Goes on Safari
WARNING: This entry covers pretty much the whole safari, so IS a bit long - pictures are forthcoming to make it more interesting!!! While I thought the adventure would begin on the Serengeti, it actually started in Zanzibar Airport! So I show up and just planned on buying my ticket for later that day. I go to the ticket desk for ZanAir (a regional …
Serengeti and Ngororo crater
The two days I spent in the Serengeti and one in the Ngororo crater are some of the most amazing I have ever had. "Serengeti" is an interpretation of the Swahili word for open spaces, which is easily understood upon visiting. Being on the plains is other worldly, with nothing but grass on the flat expanse in any direction as far as the eye can see. Our first day we spot a lioness hunting, with her mostly young pride watching on with attention. ...
Back from the roof of Africa
... other people back in Arusha and they also went to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Just a day earlier than me and they had a terrific view. When looking at their pictures, it is definetely worth the climb. Never mind, the important thing is that I reached to the top. In fact while going up, I saw many people struggling, one of them was seating down trying to eat a chocolate bar, looking like someone who lost the will to ...
Back on the road
... much deliberation we decided that the only way to get around handing over a ridiclous amount of USD was to soften the financial blow by racing through the crater first thing the next morning and entering the Serengeti in the afternoon, staying one night there, before exiting through a the western corridor gate late the next day. With the above whinge about the $$ complete I will now go on to say it was worth every cent. We woke at 5am on the first day and were ...
Summit day. The final push to the peak.
... absolutely smashed it. Instead of taking 6 hours, we had managed it in 5. It was freezing and pitch black, so the boys said that we should continue to Uhuru Peak. This seemed like a terrible idea, but we kept shuffling on. Every time I asked how much longer we had to go, only 5 minutes or so had gone past and our speed dropped right down. Alex and Chris were stumbling ahead of us, propping each other up and making sure neither went off the cliff ...
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