We flew from Kigali to Kilimanjaro, Tanzania with another couple and were picked up by our guide. He drove us to Gibbs Farm where we had an entire guesthouse to ourselves with gourmet meals. We had our first encounter with wildlife when there was a giant spider in the bathroom. Jenn killed it by throwing a mini soap in a direct hit. In the morning, we hiked into the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, where we saw baboons, elephant caves (where elephants use their tusks to dig into the mountainside in search of minerals), hyena scat, and a waterfall. We continued driving into the bottom of Ngorongoro Crater where we saw zebras, elephants, rhinos, lions, ostrich, wildebeest, baboons, DLAs (deer like animals), jackals, hippos, and crested cranes. We saw a confused baby wildebeest chasing an ostrich for over
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