Safari
So I did the safari thing this past weekend. Actually there is only one thing to say: WOW. It is hard to describe the beauty and hopefully I have been able to capture some of it in my pictures. Only took about 900…..
We left on Friday afternoon, 5 people and guide in a very, very old Landrover. Our first stop was in Mbulu, about an hour and a half from Haydom. To check and fasten one of the tires…. This event would repeat itself numerous times during our trip, but if you have ever been on one of the roads here, you know that if a tire would be loose, you would not get very far….
We arrived at Katuro, a town at the foot of the Ngorongoro Crater National Park. We spend the night at our guides parents house. The next morning we packed ourselves in the Landrover and entered the park.
It is the strangest thing. You have seen stuff like this on the discovery channel, animals like this in the zoo. But now, here you are, in the middle of it. The roof was taken off the Landrover so we could stand up and look around. Now it still is the dry season here so imagine the red dust every time someone else would pass us…. But then we were starting to see the animals. Some far away, some close up, like the lionesses having lunch.
After the first day we had dinner at a restaurant owned by a guy from South Africa. Hamburger and fries…. So very western but so very delicious!
On Sunday we drove to Lake Manyara. A totally different eco system, greener and more trees. Warmer and more humid. So more bugs. Again, lots of beautiful views, animals and things to see.
I can go on and on about how beautiful it is. But the best thing is to look at the pictures….Hopefully I will be able to put them on the site, the internet has not been cooperative lately so check back if they are not there!
And after the two days in a Landrover that has seen better days… Paris-Dakkar is for wimps.
So week two is now half way. Somehow, in this chaos you do find some sort of routine. If you don’t, you cannot survive this I think. It still continues to be an emotional roller coaster, many new impressions and adjustments every day. Monday I was sick. (still, again, who knows) So I did not go to the preemie ward, since they have enough of a fight ahead of them without me sniffing and coughing. Now everybody is sick here. Coughing everywhere, so I think we keep passing it on to each other. The swine flu prevention, cough, fever, cold or flu symptoms=mask, does not apply here. Lots of rules do not apply here. For now I am focusing on what there is instead of wondering why something is not there. It helps.
