Tanzania Safari

Yesterday we started on our 6 day safari. We stared with  the first National park for the day. When we entered the park we immediately saw a herd of zebra and a couple of wildabeast! We were pretty excited! 

The park has a curvy dirt road that meanders through the lush savanna. It reminds me a little of western Alberta's foothills. The trees are smaller then in Canada other than the baobab trees. They are thick trunked massive trees. Baobab means upside down tree. 

The next animals we saw were Impala and warthogs and a herd of giraffes. I was waiting to see a giraffe, so that was very special. Next as we drove through the scrub bush we came upon a big heard of elephants. There were male, female and many babies. They were eating the lush rainy season grass. 

Just as we thought we had seen so much, our guide heard on the land rovers radio, that a lion had been spotted. So we took off in that direction in hopes of getting a glimps of the lion. We were so lucky, we drove up and a female lion was sunning herself on a termite hill. As we watched, she decided she had had enough of us watching and got up, stretched herself and went into the tall grass. I was amazed that as soon as she immersed herself in the grass, she almost disappeared. We were very patient and were rewarded with another look at her when she crossed the dirt path. 

It was a long but very impressive day. We started out it 7am and are now, 12 hours later at Twiga campground relaxing while our dinner is being made. This  morning we left again at 7am for another full day game safari. 

We were rewarded with so many animals to see. We even saw 4 more lions and some hippos! 

We have lucked out with intermittent Internet, so we are trying to send a few great pictures.