Safari (updated with photos)

Safari was great. Managed to see pretty much all the animals, including lions, elephants (loads), giraffes, wildebeests, zebras, impalas and a cheetah! We went to Tarangire National Park.

me (POLAND), marta (ITALY), olivia (CHINA), abraham (mexico)

safari jeeps

marcelo (ITALY) hunting for some ivory

elephants crossing

zebras chilling

giraffes

cheetah! (apparently really rare)

However, what I enjoyed the most was the journey itself and all the things I've seen from inside the bus/jeep. This trip broke all my stereotypes about Africa, such as the one that it's always hot here. It really isn't. When we got to Arusha it was freezing cold. Apparently it was 16C but felt much colder. The whole landscape is completely different from the Dar Es Salaam area. It's less green with a lot of mountains and endless plains. As we were driving by I saw many Masai villages (and other tribes as well). Little Masai children, dressed in their traditional red clothes walking along with tens, if not hundreds, of goats and cows. It was quite shocking to see all these people living without any sort of technology (although mobile phones are the only thing that they adapted), electricity and such. Their main purpose of living is to... survive. Every day they wake up in order to collect water, grow vegetables, raise animals and extend their lives for another day. It's not very different from our lives if you think about it. We think it's different because we've got internet, teflon frying pans and helicopters. By getting up to work every day, we're doing exactly the same thing, just in an indirect way - instead of water, food and building materials we get money to pay for all these things. What is different though is knowing about it and actually seeing it live. I was aware of people existing in such conditions, but seeing it with my own eyes was a completely different experience.