Surprisingly the fancy lodges in the more tourist developed Tanzania has no interent! So, we are now back in Arusha, overnight, waiting to begin our long journey back home which starts in about 18hrs.

Thirty days later, and three countries, it all went by very quickly but I’m ready to be home again (at least for awhile).

We saw a huge amount of animals: Leopards, Cheetahs and lions were our favs, but we also saw thousands, if not millions, of wildebeests, zebra, antelope (aka “cheetah food”), hyrax (cute Tibbs like animal), giraffe…

I have dozens of stories: how we almost got forced to stay in Narobi -yuck-, and watching a cheetah hunt (and fail ), watching three cheetah boys try to win over one cheetah chick…in front of 6-10 safari trucks, watching parts of the migration, a wildebeest birth, teenage lions tease cap buffalo to make them chase them…
And I have thousands of pictures (about 4000 including a few videos). They will all now have to wait until I get home, make sure I still have a job and then sort through all the pictures….look for an Africa page soon!

Comments on the comments:
Yes, Linda got a bit obsessed with the over 18 pictures

Talk to you all in a few days!

I think Linda will be posting a few new pics tonight, so you may want to check her site too.

-t

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Linda and i survived the class V’s of the Nile River. fyi, rafting here is pretty different than there, apparently the goal is not to do the rapid clean but to flip the boat and see what happenes. Kind of crazy hitting a huge wave, getting thrown several meters and either getting lost in the water or having a death grip on the raft rope and holding your breath until the long class V rapid is done with and see where you pop out. Crazy stuff! People flying all over the place… no pictures obviously, but we did buy the video which was made.
We almost gave up on going actually. We were to meet the minibus at a hotel a block away at 7:15am, we were there at 7:10, waited until 8a, called and was told in 10-15 min he would be here, at 9am we decided to leave no rafting for us. then a minibus with four locals pulls up and tells us to get in to go to Jinja…hmmm you can imagine our hesitation, so we used their cell phone to call the company and verify. All was ok, except for the late part. It was an exception to the company that otherwise has a very good thing going and even gave us a sweet discount off the rafting because of the delay. They cut of the first rapid to save some time, but we didn’t miss anything other than another swim.

Felix, had I known you have never seen a banana tree I would have taken a nice picture, but I think we are done with banana places now I may have a general scenery pic that has some though. We did camp one night on the boarder of Uganda and Congo, which is a small river with noisy hippos.

Eleven more days, but it should be all easy from here…nice lodges and hopefully a much better guide!

-t

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Can you find the tree climbing lions in this picture? (there are two)

She’s so cute…

Black and white colobus monkey, super shy but one of my favorites!

Bats! there where thousands of them in this cave we hiked to…it was crazy (loud and smelly too) Thier faces are kinda cute…

Uganda kob out standing in his field

And you thought yosemite bears were bad! Maria here has got an attitude (pretty scary actually). She is the resident ophaned elephant in one national park campground where we stayed for three nights. She causes all kinds of mayhem, and will probably eventually have to be killed sad

Here is a pretty decent chimp picture, I haven’t gone through them all yet so there may be better ones

That’s it for now…

-t

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