Saturday 21 April 2007

Tanzania

Last couple of long driving days and a 2night/3days gaming drive to Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater.
spent a night in Arusha before heading onto the game drives. campsote has a snake park with several different kinds of venomous asps, some crocs, few owls & a vulture. Also a Masai Culture Museum. both were included in the cost of the tour. there was also a danger of being greeted by animals at night but that didn't happen. only guests were guinea fowl.
Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater were one of the highlights of the whole tour, saw thousands of animals and amazing scenery. The Migration of Zebra & wildebeasts is spectacular, getting up close to the animals as well with only a jeep for protection.
Campsites were open to visitors ( animal kind ) and on the 3rd morning, was told my Mel ( my tent buddy for the 2nights) that we had a buffalo right outside our tent in the night. All she could hear was the noise that they make ( like heavy breathing down the phone ) it spent about 20mins around us, she tried to wake me up as i slept through it all but she was afraid to move. Damn, wish i had woken up to have actually experienced it !
The 1st nites campsite had 2 squat toilets and there was our group of 12 plus another truck of 18 and 2 other small parties. So 2 between 40 of us wasn't exactly pleasant. One toilet stank well bad during the day ! weren't allowed to go in the bushes for our safety. We had guards on site for our protection. All in all one very different but wonderful trip to the African Plains !

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