I had some free time this evening so was finally able to get around to getting some nice pictures from my Panasonic LX-5 uploaded to the blog. Every single article has had the weird mobile-app caused formatting fixed, I’ve corrected a lot of typos that not having a spell checker running caused, and most importantly, […]

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After the unpleasant circumstances of my prior blog post, it was nice to meet a friendly face back in DAR. Our hotel, Triniti, was staffed by a pleasant Zambian employee named Xavier. In case you didn’t know, Zambia is one of those African countries that’s adopted English as their native language, so our apologies about […]

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Soon after we left John and Endallah behind us, we were on our way back to Karatu for another bicycle ride – the one that we were supposed to have on the first day. Renatus, who we’d already met that first night, would be our guide. A relaxing three hour bicycle ride – on much […]

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And I thought Swahili was hard! We’ve just spent the past two-ish days hiking the farmland and small village of Endallah, south of Karatu, and home of the Iraqw tribe. If you had told me I’d be sitting down and eat dinner with a group of Iraqis (it’s how they pronounce their tribe’s name) I’d […]

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Today’s highlight occurred right after we broke camp this morning. We were retracing our drive all the way back to Karatu, our starting point where we met John Mahu, right before Ngorogoro. On our road back to the main gate – still in the Serengeti – we suddenly found a lone male lion crouched in […]

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Animals seen (new in bold) 

The now typical combined herds of gnu, far less zebra though with them
A few dozen scattered herds of Thomson Gazelle 
Two or three dozen elephants, including four babies born in the past month or two
A family of a couple dozen banded mongoose
14 Topi antelopes in a family unit
12 lionesses and their eight […]

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