Safari

Finally a chance to blog for a just minute...

It has been a week now that I've been on my safari. I spent 3 days driving through the Massai Mara, a national park in Kenya that adjoins to the Serengeti in Tanzania. From there we travelled back to Nairobi for a night before heading down to Arusha in Tanzania and then on to the Serengeti for another 3 days. It seems like a long way around but there aren't really other roads, they would be so rough if there were, and the serengeti is so massive that it would take longer to drive directly through.

We saw all of the following up close: Lion (male and female), baboons, monkeys, eland, elephant (my personal favourite), a leopard (actually not that close, but still cool), girafe, zebra, emu, flamingo (ok, not that close either), hyena, black rhino (i.e. all of the so called |"big 5"), jackal, vultures, cranes, numerous other birds and of course, millions of wildebeast.

I also sold my first born to take a hot air balloon over the serengeti. It was stunning and so endless. We saw some amazing things from up there, but unfortunately while the 4 of us who did it were up in the balloon the others did a game drive and saw lions mating and hyenas devouring a kill. Either way, I would rather have been at my desk working...

We've now arrived in Dar Es Salaam after 2 long hot days of driving. We head straight over to Zanzibar in the morning for the next 3 nights. I'll be visiting stone town where the spice markets are, then heading to the beach to make sure my tan will not wash off in my first shower when I get home.