Day 10: Tanzania (Tarangire, Arusha, Usa River)
Today we returned from safari, but not before packing in a few more trips about the Tarangire plains. This morning we saw some *extremely* close up elephants, a leopard tortoise, our usual giant herds of zebra, wildebeests, and impala, the occasional dik dik, a jackal, and a pair of lions again!
Unlike last time, these lions were way closer. Very much like last time, the lions decided to have a 2 second mating spree before falling back to maximum resting positions.
We also took pictures by a huge, hollowed out boaba tree that you could actually climb in to. It was apparently used by the Masai as a makeshift sniper tower of sorts, so you could see where they'd shoved peg-like things into the interior trunk to be able to climb up to their positions. It was very cool.
We are lunch back at the lodge, where I made the mistake of ordering what I thought was just "feta pizza". It turned out to be a spinach, feta, and caramelized onions pizza >.< Not great. There was way too much spinach, and if you got too much feta in a bite, it was way too salty. But, honestly, that's probably been the worst thing I've eaten since I've been here and even *that* wasn't too awful.
After lunch, we said goodbye to Tarangire and made the long trek back to Arusha so Colette could do a little shopping before her flight out this evening.
Eventually we found ourselves back at the Guest House with the Bells and Paul, who was visiting with them. Since Colette was leaving fairly soon, we took a bunch of group pictures (with all 7 or 8 of the cameras :P) and said our goodbyes.
I can't wait to go home tomorrow night. As I said before, I'm not at all ungrateful that I went on this trip: I've absolutely loved it! But that doesn't detract from my being extremely glad to be going home to my family, pets, and first world amenities.
mjl.
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