This morning I got up early and walked around Stonetown one last time. I took lots of pictures and said goodbye to some of our friends in the local shops. I stopped by FAWE to say goodbye to all the ladies there, especially Bibi Asma. I think Bibi Asma is one of my favorite ladies!
Then we went to the Zanzibar airport, which is very small, and flew in a 12 seater Cessna to Arusha. It was somewhat scary but we made it! I can’t believe all of my luggage fit as well! We made it to Arusha, which was an even smaller airport than Zanzibar, and were greeted by our tour guide, Muridy, and the cook, Buga. They are awesome! Something must have happened with our camping plans because we ended up spending the next two nights in a hotel which was pretty nice.
Arusha’s landscape is kind of like western US. That night we went on a game drive through Lake Manyara. Lake Manyara is part of the Rift Valley Basin which is one of the only fissures on the earth’s surface that can be seen from space. The Rift Valley goes from Jordan to Mozambique. Fun fact: Hatari, the John Wayne film, was also filmed here.
During our safari, we saw camels, goats, cows, donkeys, herons, olive baboon, sausage tree, toucan, African elephant, zebras, northern ground hornby, wild buffalo, hippoes, warthog, masai giraffe, impala, corwn crane (ntl bird of Uganda), hamerkop (they make big nests), wildebeest, banded mongoose, giraffe, dikdik (always travel in groups of two). There is underground water from the Ngorongoro Crater that feeds into Lake Manyara. There are 110 sq. km of bush and 220 sq. km of water.
Vocab word of the day:
Mbele – front
Nyuma – back
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