Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha – Le Jacaranda Hotel
A cold, foggy, drizzly start to the day as we drove down into the crater to come very quickly upon a pride of lions. One of the male lions was feeling most amorous, but at every aborted attempt he copped a swipe and a growl. As we drove through the crater, we came across the endangered black rhino as well as so many lions they have now become rather ho-hum – towards the end of the drive we even stopped taking photos of the lions we saw, we feel we have now seen enough animals in Africa and it is time to take in other sights.
Lunch was eaten in our car as it isn’t safe to eat outside. Not because of the lions and the buffalo but rather the monkeys and the birds. Our guide told us that one lady had 7 stitches in her face last year from being swooped on as she ate. We had also experienced the quickness of the monkey when one evening in Serengeti a window of the car was left slightly down and a monkey jumped in, opened our lunch box and took a left over roll, and jumped back out in an instant.
We arrived back to Arusha’s traffic jam in the afternoon feeling that we had enjoyed the experience but for us it was probably about a day too long – we had pretty much spent the best part of five straight days driving around looking for animals!
2 comments:
Hi folks,
Brilliant trip - my wife's not happy with you Mike. She's knows I'm inspired and now planning to drag her off to a tent in deepest, darkest Africa!
So you promised to tell us who was the best tour operator. And the winner is?????
We selected Hoopoe - small company apparently, but quite professional, and some very nice accommodation options. No need to stay in tents if you don't want to!
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