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My wife Pamela and I spent three weeks in Tanzania, Africa, in August 2021. We originally planned to go on this trip in July, 2020, but the COVID-19 Pandemic forced us to cancel. We were lucky that the tour company rescheduled it the following year. The tour was led by Reed Hoffman, a professional photographer […]
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August 13, 2021 (DAY 9 of safari) So today was the Ngorongoro crater – the day we are hunting for rhinos. On the way out of the Serengeti we saw a martial eagle which I guess is fairly rare. What I loved most about the crater is that we started up at around 8000 feet above sea
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August 12, 2021 (DAY 8 of safari) We headed out this morning at 7am to the airport where most of the people in our group had to get a COVID PCR test done in order to travel home in a few days. We don’t get ours until we get to Zanzibar. So we just waited in the
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August, 8, 2021 (DAY 4 of safari) Today we went to the Maasai village and met Purka, one of the chief’s sons, who showed us around. We had a welcome song by the tribe as well as the jumping dance. Then they took us to see the kids in school in a tiny little room that was fairly
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August 10, 2021 (DAY 6 of safari) – by Pamela Hamburg Headed out at 6am in the dark to get a picture of a stick tree with the sunrise behind it…. You can tell the day didn’t start out great for me. After the sunrise pic, we picked a place to have breakfast and they brought out all
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August 11, 2021 – (DAY 7 of safari) by Pamela Hamburg Today we headed back into the central Serengeti for another 2 days. On the way we saw lappet-faced vultures eating what we thing was a wildebeest. We arrived back in central Serengeti around lunch time and headed for our picnic spot with a view of the hippo
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August 9, 2021 (DAY 5 of safari) by Pamela Hamburg We left camp at 4:40am for our hot air balloon ride. Only me, Glenn and Alana (Loni) chose to go on this. On the way, we saw a Caraco cat, a servil cat, crocodile, land hippo and the highlight – 3 male and 3 female lions that were huge.
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August 5, 2021 (DAY 1 of safari) by Pamela Hamburg We got up at 6am this morning to get breakfast by 6:30 and out the door for our first day by 8am. We headed to Arusha National park today for a walking/riding safari. This is the only day we’re really allowed out of the truck
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August 6, 2021 (DAY 2 of safari) by Pamela Hamburg We headed out at 7am for Tarangire National park. Along the way we passed a few little towns, then got to the area where the Maasai people live. All of a sudden it was barren, with nothing but dirt, dried up corn fields, and a
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August 7, 2021 (DAY 3 of safari) by Pamela Hamburg We were headlights down the road at 6am today in search of the Hadzabe bush people. Today we got to ride in the nicest of the 3 trucks (each seat has a cushion). We drove to the “town” of Eyasi to the “office” of tourism
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Big Pine CA is located near Mammoth, Yosemite, and Kings Canyon. It is beautiful High Sierra country.We hiked the Big Pine Lakes Trail, which starts at 7,800 feet and set up our base camp at Lake #4, at 10,800 feet. There was snow and ice along the trail, and the night temperatures dropped into the
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