Blogs from Ngorongoro Conservation Area, North, Tanzania, Africa - page 4

We are in the village of Karatu for the last leg of our safari. So far our safari has been amazing! We've seen so many beautiful things. Snake Park -We started the safari by visiting a snake park. We saw a bunch of different snakes that are found in Tanzania and it really made us hope we wouldn't meet any of them in the wild. Specifically, we want to avoid the Black Mamba at all costs. It's a very agressive snake and its venom kills you quickly. They call it "One Cigarette Snake" because if you get bit, you won't have time to finish more than one cigarette before you die. -At the snake park we also saw a few birds, some crocodiles and some turtles. I got to hold a baby crocodile and also a ... read more

Å dra på besøk til en Masai landsby har jeg nevnt tidligere på bloggen at vi hadde et sterkt ønske om, i dag ble dette realitet. En fantastisk opplevelse, med minner vi sent vil glemme. Når vi kom ble det holdt velkomstdans for oss, jeg måtte også delta til slutt. Å som en ivrig hobbysanger sang jeg av full hals. De ordene jeg forsto iallefall, prøvde å menge meg så godt som overhodet mulig, jammen ble jeg ikke tatt godt i mot. Når sandskyen sto rundt oss puttet en av masai damene hodet mitt inn i kappen sin slik at jeg slapp å få sand i øynene. Slapp helt av, hun hadde klær under også. =) Jeg måtte gå sammen med damene, mens Aleksander fikk instrukser om å følge mennene. De ville ha Aleksander også til ... read more

Today we had a relaxing morning, getting a chance to look around the snake park and head into the city of Arusha where we went to the supermarket and got to go on the internet for a while. Chris and I were amused at some of the cultural differences in Africa, everyone is so relaxed they are almost going backwards. We went into the supermarket around 10am only to find they had no water left, we went out and spent time on the internet and looking for other shops before heading back around 11am to buy some other supplies that we couldn’t get elsewhere. We went in we seen the same girl who had been sitting at the milk section still there, she had no more milk to put away but she was just sitting there ... read more

It has taken me a few days to process what happened this weekend. I have gone over it and over it in my head and I cannot come up with an appropriate way to put into words all that I experienced. What follows is my inarticulate attempt to conceptualize and verbalize one of the best things I have ever done. A group of us booked a three day, two night camping safari, scheduled to take us through Serengeti and Ngorongoro. I expected to see animals and vast expanses of Tanzanian countryside, but what I did not expect was to fall in love with this unforgiving and dangerous place. It is hard to explain, but when I try to understand the immense feelings that I have for this country, I think it comes from finally ... read more

The Ngorogoro Crater is spectacular. It sits about 7000 ft above sea level, at least the rim does. Our hotel balcony overlooks the crater, it almost looks like a satellite map or that you are looking at it from the plane. It is a LONG way down. The Maasai, a famous African tribe, live on the craters edge and often graze their cattle in the nutrient rich grass. Actually, Ran was on the balcony today when he heard bells and talking. The Maasai warriors were bringing their cattle by the hotel. The crater is so rich because of its history, millions of years ago it was a huge volcano, but it erupted and collapsed upon itself, creating the crater. Almost all of the animals in the crater are born and die there, the bull elephants are ... read more