oh my gosh. safari was amazing.
mama got in on the 6th and immediately we went to the hotel, toasted to our promised adventures and climbed the emergency stairway to get a view of the arusha skyline. on our 5 day safari we started first at ngorongoro crater. oh my word it was incredible. i've been before but the elephant on the crater rim road the night before our crater tour must have been a sign because we saw it all! all of it! everything we could have asked fore and amazingly close. babboons scampering across the pathways, rhinos close enough to actually see them, lions lounging in the sun, a bijillion buffalos, and sooo much more. we saw it all. it was so great. if you go to tanzania, go to ngorongoro crater. i dont care what they say. the crater is so beautiful and such a strange fishbowl, there must not be anything else like it in the world. upon leaving the crater mama and i visited a maasai village. oh baby, talk about culture shock. we were greeted with lots of grunts, jumps and white beads galore. there is really almost nothing i can say that could describe how awestruck and awkward i felt all at the same time (mama felt similar i believe as well). it was beautiful, uncomfortable, loud, dusty and like nothing ive ever seen before. just us and about 50 maasais singing to us for about 20 minutes. ill post pictures, i can't do it justice. i can't even try. just incredible. also if you go to tanzania, stay in tented lodges in the serengeti. like daymn. :) no joke, after a drive thru the serengeti, it seemed only appropriate to stay in tents hidden by huge rocks in a camp site peppered with buffalos, lions and bmuzi mawe. we loved it. we wanted to stay another day but couldn't cancel our next stay in lake manyara.
ngorongoro: everything you want to see
tents: the best place i might have stayed in my life.
no im in kigali.
mama and i arrived here just a few hours ago. we road in our Rwandair flanked on every side by the Rwanda national soccer team! such nice guys. ton will be so jealous. i didn't know that french was the national language of rwanda tho and tried to speak kiswahili to them... pole. one guy told us, "welcome to the beauty of africa". im taking his word for it. everyone we have met here is so sweet and friendly. the city is beautiful on rolling hills and to think this county is recovering from a so recent genocide. the people here are just beautiful. i can already tell i won't want to leave after just a few days.
mama got in on the 6th and immediately we went to the hotel, toasted to our promised adventures and climbed the emergency stairway to get a view of the arusha skyline. on our 5 day safari we started first at ngorongoro crater. oh my word it was incredible. i've been before but the elephant on the crater rim road the night before our crater tour must have been a sign because we saw it all! all of it! everything we could have asked fore and amazingly close. babboons scampering across the pathways, rhinos close enough to actually see them, lions lounging in the sun, a bijillion buffalos, and sooo much more. we saw it all. it was so great. if you go to tanzania, go to ngorongoro crater. i dont care what they say. the crater is so beautiful and such a strange fishbowl, there must not be anything else like it in the world. upon leaving the crater mama and i visited a maasai village. oh baby, talk about culture shock. we were greeted with lots of grunts, jumps and white beads galore. there is really almost nothing i can say that could describe how awestruck and awkward i felt all at the same time (mama felt similar i believe as well). it was beautiful, uncomfortable, loud, dusty and like nothing ive ever seen before. just us and about 50 maasais singing to us for about 20 minutes. ill post pictures, i can't do it justice. i can't even try. just incredible. also if you go to tanzania, stay in tented lodges in the serengeti. like daymn. :) no joke, after a drive thru the serengeti, it seemed only appropriate to stay in tents hidden by huge rocks in a camp site peppered with buffalos, lions and bmuzi mawe. we loved it. we wanted to stay another day but couldn't cancel our next stay in lake manyara.
ngorongoro: everything you want to see
tents: the best place i might have stayed in my life.
no im in kigali.
mama and i arrived here just a few hours ago. we road in our Rwandair flanked on every side by the Rwanda national soccer team! such nice guys. ton will be so jealous. i didn't know that french was the national language of rwanda tho and tried to speak kiswahili to them... pole. one guy told us, "welcome to the beauty of africa". im taking his word for it. everyone we have met here is so sweet and friendly. the city is beautiful on rolling hills and to think this county is recovering from a so recent genocide. the people here are just beautiful. i can already tell i won't want to leave after just a few days.
