On Safari in Tanzania

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From Shell: I have to say the trip to the Serengeti NP and back was one of the best travel experiences I have ever had. It was rough, dirty, tiring, confronting and great fun. I'm still dreaming about it 2 weeks later.

Things that stick in my mind are:

- how fertile the land was in Western Kenya
- answering Marja's call for me to open the window in my campground shower and looking straight in the eyes of a huge bull elephant
- the interest and/or excitement from local kids (even the teenages that yelled "piss off" and threw rocks at the truck)
- walking through markets - both ones where people were friendly and chatty and ones where there was some seriously hard selling going on
- sticking my head out of the tent at 1.30am after hearing something grazing nearby, only to see a half tonne buffalo turn it's head towards me
- the first hot shower in 3 days
- seeing 3 lionesses hunting (and being secretly happy that our arrival probably saved a zebra)
- singing really bad songs around the campfire atop Ngorongoro crater
- laying in the tent and hearing lions call after making a kill nearby and then seeing hyenas finishing off that kill a few hours later
- standing on a possibly dodgy look-out over the Great Rift Valley
- eating traditional African dishes
- walking to the Barclays bank in Musoma, on Lake Victoria.

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