Arusha National Park

Before I left for Tanzania, the guy who gives international interns advice told us not to blog because 1.) it's nerdy and 2.) it could get you in trouble if you badmouth people. Oh well, what can I say, I guess I'm a nerd?

Anyhow, we went to Arusha National Park, sort of as a teaser safari. I would not recommend that company, but unfortunately I don't remember the name, so I cannot warn people not to use it. I enjoyed the park, it is very beautiful, and we saw lots of giraffes and zebras. After some time, we got kind of jaded--we'd see giraffes, and it would be like seeing a horse. Baboons would just sit in the road, with their babies on their backs. During this time of year, there are a lot of baby animals; I think February is a season in which a lot of animals are born, and during these months they are big enough to wander around more independently, but still so cute! Unfortunately it was kind of cloudy, so we did not get a great view of the small ngorongoro (a crater within Arusha National park). I was hoping to see elephants, but we did not manage to find one. Rather, we just saw huge piles of elephant poop, and the guide remarked that we must have just missed them.

We saw many colobus monkeys, which I found really cute. I normally don't like monkeys, but these were pretty black and white monkeys with longer, silkier looking hair. They looked kind of like skunks actually. In the lake, there were a lot of flamingos. There are so many of them, that it can be hard to tell what there are. It really does look like some pink plant, because they stand so close together. I made our group get together for group photos, and gave our driver detailed instructions as to where to take them from. I had to get pictures from other people, since my camera broke the night before.

I haven't posted in a while, so I will divide these posts by subjects.