Tarangire NP - Wed March 4

Wake up with monkeys in Baobob tree above us. I saw dik diks behind the tent.

Nice breakfast. No one tried the millet porridge.

We fixed Pallangyo's glasses with an earplug. His nose piece had fallen off.

Pallangyo said we would take a detour through Tarangere park before we left. That turned out to be two hours. We saw lots more elephants. We saw several groups together that then split up and went their separate ways. We saw two young males wrestling with their trunks. We saw elephants in the riverbed digging holes in the sand to get cleaner water. There were love birds flying around too.

Then we were off the paved road. Went through a village that was having a market. Cattle, stalls, people, hides, butchering. Everything was going on. We stopped and Pallangyo bought some sugar cane.

We saw children everywhere. They loved to wave at us. They yelled too. I felt I had to wave back or they would think we were ignoring them.

Drove up the escarpment. It was steep, narrow, and bumpy. Mom didn't like that at all, but she hung in there. We had lunch part way up.

Up on the top it was very green. It was cooler too which was nice.

On the way down into the Yaeda Valley it got dry again. It reminded me of the high desert in California. Near our camp we picked up a woman. She was walking home from the clinic.

We met the fellow staff members at camp, Lomiake and Le Maria. The tents were set up. It was a little more rustic than the permanent tented places we had been to. We had a nice dinner by the fire.