Grooming baboons

9th Day-Manyara National Park and Maasai

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October 21st 2010
We had reached what we call "cathedral overload", which means we had seen so many wonderful things, that we were numb to more. Instead of spending the whole morning at Lake Manyara Park, we slept until 7:45, ate breakfast, and spent a leisurely morning on the veranda of our tent/hut. It was overlooking the Mosquito River which was dry since we were there at the end of the dry season. We watched se ... read more

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Shortly after independence, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the nation of Tanzania in 1964. One-party rule came to an end in 1995 with the first democratic elections held in the country since the 1970s. Zanzibar's semi-autonomous status and po... ... read more