One Way To Start the New Year
The safari is over today and I am in the city of Mwanza on the shores of Lake Victoria making my to Rwanda to hopefully see the mountain gorillas (a.k.a. gorillas in the mist fame).
I spent New Year's Eve with an English tourist, a Danish student and an older Israeli retiree. We ate an Indian buffet dinner and then visited a local watering hole, the East African Pub and then a disco called Alberto's Pub, chatting with the locals and playing pool. It was fun counting down to the New Year in Swahili despite fending off the pickpockets and overt friendly gestures of the African prostitute on the dance floor. Although one of the guys didn't seem to mind and ended up walking back to his hotel with a hooker.
Viewing the animals on safari into Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti National Park was outstanding. We saw the "Big Five!" Several herds of elephants along the road, a lioness with two cubs eating a hippo while another lioness and lion watching in the background, water buffulos lying in the grass lands, three Black Rhinos watching the trucks of tourists watching them, and the elusive leopard lounging ontop of a tree. Despite our Land Rover having a fuel leak problem and the accommodation turning out ot less appealing then originally described, the safari ended to be pretty well. Going down the Ngorongoro Crater and viewing the animals at the bottom of the extinct volcano bottom is truly beautiful scenery. And the Serengeti... as one appropraite African saying goes, it's "where the grass meets the sky." The wide open grasslands and big sky with small rock croppings is what I liked best. The wildebeasts were just outside in the game park with a few scattered inside. The Serengeti is absolutely beautiful (even without the animals) and what I had imagined Africa to be like.
Off to grab some grilled meats for dinner. Got to catch the 5:00 a.m. bus tomorrow to Benacco.
I spent New Year's Eve with an English tourist, a Danish student and an older Israeli retiree. We ate an Indian buffet dinner and then visited a local watering hole, the East African Pub and then a disco called Alberto's Pub, chatting with the locals and playing pool. It was fun counting down to the New Year in Swahili despite fending off the pickpockets and overt friendly gestures of the African prostitute on the dance floor. Although one of the guys didn't seem to mind and ended up walking back to his hotel with a hooker.
Viewing the animals on safari into Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti National Park was outstanding. We saw the "Big Five!" Several herds of elephants along the road, a lioness with two cubs eating a hippo while another lioness and lion watching in the background, water buffulos lying in the grass lands, three Black Rhinos watching the trucks of tourists watching them, and the elusive leopard lounging ontop of a tree. Despite our Land Rover having a fuel leak problem and the accommodation turning out ot less appealing then originally described, the safari ended to be pretty well. Going down the Ngorongoro Crater and viewing the animals at the bottom of the extinct volcano bottom is truly beautiful scenery. And the Serengeti... as one appropraite African saying goes, it's "where the grass meets the sky." The wide open grasslands and big sky with small rock croppings is what I liked best. The wildebeasts were just outside in the game park with a few scattered inside. The Serengeti is absolutely beautiful (even without the animals) and what I had imagined Africa to be like.
Off to grab some grilled meats for dinner. Got to catch the 5:00 a.m. bus tomorrow to Benacco.
posted by Louis at 8:30 PM
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