We woke this morning to the sound of laughter...not from a human, but from a bird thats call sounded exactly like it. Naturally after a, "what is that?" We started cracking up ourselves. We had breakfast and then Babenga, our guide, joined us to give an overview of what to expect and the "dos and don'ts." Babenga is from Bukoba, Tanzania and has been a guide for 22 years. He is known as "the wise one" and is proving to be! We loaded up the Land Cruiser and hit the road traveling out through Arusha which has a small monument acknowledging the middle of Africa, as it is midway between Cape Town and Cairo. There was a lot of construction as there is a project to construct a highway that does stretch from each of those
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