Tag: safari


Last Stop…The Serengeti Adventuriety

We said good-bye to our guide Ayoub today.  We had spent the last five days and countless miles and hours in the jeep together.  He had taken care of us and taught us so much about the Tanzanian animals and people.  Ayoub would drop us off at the nearby little tiny airport and we would board a little tiny airplane and fly to the Serengeti.  For...

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Ngorongoro Crater and Gibb’s Farm Adventuriety

I may be beating a dead horse here, but forgive me as this is still in the time frame of my forty-eight hour mind warp.  We left Lake Eyasi and drove back through the town of Karatu and to our next lodge, Gibb’s Farm, which is a short 5km outside of the town.  There is a lot to see driving from lodge to lodge even if the Safari...

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The Datoga Tribe Adventuriety

After our morning with the Hadzabe we stopped to visit a family of the Datoga Tribe.  The Datoga tribe has a much larger population than the Hadzabe and place great importance on cattle in their culture.  A man becomes a Datoga chief when he marries his first wife.  The first wife then chooses the second and the husband must buy her with cattle.  The second wife choose...

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To Safari or Not to Safari Adventuriety / Inspirietry

We landed in Amsterdam yesterday morning after ten days on safari in Tanzania.  I can’t believe our time in Tanzania is over.  The trip was not my idea, and would never have been my idea.  I didn’t even want to go, but I came back learning more than I could have ever imagined.  There are many parts to this story so I will just start at...

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