A Day in Dubai

Our flight arrives into Dubai at 3:30am. Walking out of the airplane, the heat hits you like a ton of bricks. At 3:30am it is already 33 degrees. Shawn and Cameron are already at the hotel that Shawn had prebooked because their flight was earlier and direct and arrived the night before. The Dubai Airport is the polar opposite of Addis Ababa. After getting off the plane, we are …

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Ngorogoro Crater and Off to Nairobi

The fog is thick as ….lets just say it’s really thick when we get up at 5:30am. We pack and meet Chicho and Peter for breakfast at 6:30.  Peter always served wieners at our breakfast and today they have wieners in the breakfast buffet. It must be a Tanzanian thing. Water buck are eating grass beside the terrace. We actually get internet so I help Graham put a bit …

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Serengetti to Rhyno Lodge

It’s dark when I rise. We head out to try and catch some of the migration across the Mara River. The landscape is dotted with horned sculls ,bones and some carcasses. Many of the bones have been picked clean and bleached bright white by the Tanzanian sun but other carcasses are only partially eaten and left to rot.Shawn says that every now and then he gets a brief whiff …

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Lake Manyara to the Serengetti

After breakfast we pile into the jeep and head for Lake Manyara National Park. The first thing we see are blue monkeys hanging around the front gate. Throughout the day we see the usual elephants, giraffes, zebras,dikdik, Impala, Buffaloes,waterbuck, baboons and both velvet and blue monkeys. We also see a female brown Agama Lizard, and striped mongoose Lake Manyara is also known for its birds. We see hornbills, king …

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