Return to Arusha - Wed March 11

We decided to not take a long tour while leaving the park because Robin was still not at 100 percent. She did get up for breakfast though.

We drove through the drived out Lake Ndutu. Then we headed straight for the main road. This was right across the grassland. No path to follow, just the outline of a big tree in the distance. We stopped under the tree. Then we hooked up with the main road. It took us past the Oldavi gorge museum and back up the Ngorongoro crater.

We stopped at a curio shop and then had lunch along the road. The road was nicely paved, but the speed limit is only 50 mph. We stopped and looked at an ebony tree. The black portion is in the interior of the tree. There is more white wood on the outside. I think this was the longest day driving, 163 miles.

We checked into the Impala Hotel in Arusha. We got to our rooms, showered and went to the pool. It was a little cool, but it was very refreshing.

This was our first chance to email people since the first day so I worked on the computer for an hour uploading pictures.