Day 16: Back to the “Real World”
Yesterday was my final day in Tanzania. We all felt sad as we said goodbye to our new friends. Mbise thanked us for being Ambassadors for...
Day 15: Lake Manyara
Today was our last full day in Africa. We all leave tomorrow. This morning we checked out of the crater lodge and drove to Lake Manyara,...
Day 14: Lake Manyara
Today we drove down into the Ngorongoro Crater for a long dusty game drive. The drive down on hairpin curves was through a beautiful...
Day 13: Ngorongoro
We started out headed for the Ngorongoro crater this morning and went on a morning game drive on the way while still in the Serengeti....
Day 12: Serengeti
Up early for the morning game drive. Today we added a leopard in a tree, eight female lions and a lone majestic male, little dikdiks, a...
Day 11: Serengeti
The driver picked us up this morning in a large 4-by-4 safari vehicle for our trip to the Serengeti. It took us three hours to the front...
Day 10: Bukoba
Our last day in Bukoba. We have somehow managed to convince them to fly us to Mwanza today. Too tired the night before to even think...
Day 9: Bukoba
Up and out the door to "town" to see if we can get the airline tickets figured out. It seems as if our tickets "somehow" changed from 7am...
Day 8: Bukoba
I'm not quite sure who won the battle last night, me or the mosquito net, but at the end of it, I felt like The English Patient, trapped...
Day 7: Bukoba
Awoke at 4am with my new "friend" the rooster who did not stop from then on. Staring at the "shower," it’s really more of a faucet over...