Tanzania

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After Tunisia I flew down to Tanzania for a two week safari with National Geographic. The journey started just west of Mt Kilimanjaro in the town of Arusha. We then toured through the famous Ngorongoro Crater. This 3 million year old crater is a World Heritage Site and represents the largest unbroken ancient caldera in the world. It is often referred to as “Africa’s Garden of Eden” - it exists as it only little isolated ecosystem with thousands of wild animals, including lions, elephants, wildebeests, zebras, rhinos, gazelles and buffaloes.

I was shocked at how many animals we saw in the crater and how close we could actually get to them. Ngorongoro in no way prepared me though for 100,000’s of wildebeest we would see two days latter when drove north through the Serengeti plain in full view of the Great Migration. The Great Migration is an annual phenomenon that includes 1.5 million wildebeest and close to million other grazers- mostly zebras and gazelles. At one point we had driven for close to three hours and the view for as the eye could see was herd after herd of wildebeest

The trip culminated with a one week stay on Zanzibar Island where I hung for a few days and did some diving on the spectacular coral reefs.

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