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Shanga River House Co-op and Coffee Plantation
Today we woke up, had breakfast with the group and then got in a safari
truck for our first outing. This was my first experience of Tanzania
and it wasn't exactly what I envisioned. As we drove out of the lodge
compound and the gates opened we immediately saw people congregating at a
church next door, motorcycles, and then the …
OAT group leaves - I travel on!
We drove back from Serengeti to Arusha (about 120 miles but took us all morning because of several very necessary shopping stops (some of us were going into serious shopping withdrawal because of the 4 nights out camping on the open plains. I got a day room at the same Lodge that we stayed at in the very beginning and actually got all of my luggage …
My mind and body together
At last I am in Africa. Alas not yet united with my bags! Seems as if KLM is known for off loading some bags when total aircraft weight is exceeded ... this w/o notifying the bags owners ... and then in a day or two the bags are reunited with their grateful! owners. I am really REALLY glad I followed the advice of the tour group to pack with me one …
Tarangire National Park
... a herd of impala moving through the camp this morning - they are very pretty animals but they sound like pigs grunting. Passed some elephants right next to the road on the way to Ngorongoro Crater this morning, and then got flagged down by a police car about 100 meters down the road. Weren't sure what was happening but he had pulled us over to make sure we had seen the elephants and got a chance to take a photo if we wanted to. Very helpful policeman ...
Hakuna Matata
... fair share of animals that included the big 5; lion, leopard, water buffalo, elephant and the elusive rhino. Seeing these amazing animals in their natural habitat, grazing or stalking their next meal was incomparably special. On a couple of occasions we came across lion cubs feasting on the carcass of a wilderbeast that the lionesses had just caught or leopards carting a gazelle up an acacia tree. Of course, these events attracted a lot of attention and before long ...
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