Safari

NgoroNgoro Crater = Amazing!
Two days ago we woke at 530am after spending another evening at our homestays.  We grabbed some coffee, dressed in our best Safari outfits (blue button downs, linen pants, a sun hat, and sneakers) seemed to be the dress of choice.  We piled into three land rovers and off we went.  I had gotten into the second row of the biggest van.  At our first pitstop i was feeling a bit car sick so I asked to switch to the front seat of a different car.  My director switched with me and off we went.  Three hours later we made a pit stop complete with a family of baboons on the side of the road and a plethora of storks.  That is when we heard that the van (the one I had previously been in) had broken down and they were at least an hour away and waiting for a new van.  Needless to say I felt about ten percent bad and 90 percent grateful that I had switched vans.  Karma for getting carsick was not being in the car that broke down.  A good trade off.

We got to the entrance of the national park and drove in another hour through the jungle to the rim of a gigantic caldera that was created when a volcano fell in on itself thousands of years ago.  On our way we spotted two giraffe feeding in the trees.  Giraffes in the wild!  Wowza! The rim is 2500 meters above sea level and then we descended into the huge caldera.  The land rover bumped and jostled down into the most beautiful place I have ever seen.  There is a huge salt lake in the middle and our driver opened the top of the jeep.  We spent the next four hours standing on our seats with our top half in the open air scouting out savannah wild life.  First stop = the lake.

Spotted:  Huge herds of zebra, gazelle, and wildebeast

Next: A huge Male Lion limping along the land

Flamingos, crown cranes, warthogs, heart beasts, ostriches doing mating dances, monkeys, hippos, many birds.....and at the very end to make my entire life.....


AN ELEPHANT IN THE WILD!  Life is complete.  The perfect end to my African Adventure!  See you all soon  I will be home on Tuesday!