Tuesday March 21, 2006
Today has been a long day, and that may have something to do with the fact that I only got like 3 ½ hours of sleep last night! But, James and I talked about some interesting topics, and it was worth it. So we got our wake up call @ 6:00, had a cup of coffee and went out for our last safari @ 6:30. We saw some hyena, buffalo, a porcupine, jackals, 2 lionesses, one of which was dragging a huge zebra carcass from a successful hunt earlier in the morning that was really cool, we also saw Masai giraffes (they have an irregular pattern). We drove about an hour out looking for a herd of elephants, which we eventually found, it was way cool. The matriarch chased us off after we had been there staring too long. Got a lot of good photos and actually filled my entire memory card, good thing we are going back to James’ place today and I can empty it onto his laptop.
After our successful safari, James and I had a bush breakfast, which is a full buffet breakfast that they have set up in the bush, about 1km outside of camp. It was very romantic, and quite awkward, but overall very nice. We had the same waiter, Oliver, serving us and we even had an armed guard to protect us from who knows what. From the bush breakfast we headed to the base camp and grabbed our bags and were placed in a small safari van and taken back to the airstrip for our return flight to Nairobi. We made a quick stop during the flight (a layover of sorts, but at another camp) to drop off and pick up different passengers and switch planes. While at that stop we saw a herd of 30 – 40 elephants not too far from the airstrip, sweet!
Eventually, these Air Kenya prop planes got us back to Nairobi @ about 12:30. We gathered our bags, picked up the latest copy of Time magazine and headed back to the Baptist Mission. We repacked for our next flight, showered and unloaded my cameras memory card. Then we had a while till our flight to Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania. So we went to a mall and looked at some local stores for the wealthier folks in Nairobi, then we went to a more touristy market. James purchase some Masai clubs for about $5 each (400 Kenyan shillings about 70 KSH=$1USD).
Then we headed to the airport, grabbed a bite to eat at the airport Java house near our gate (cheese dog and iced coffee) then we boarded our plane after James had a little scare from loosing his boarding pass (he left it at one of the security check points we passed through but, was able to retrieve it without incident). Our flight to Dar was about 2 hours, I dozed off through some of it. We landed at about 9:00 p.m., had to purchase our visas for $50 each and were greeted by Jeremy, a Journeyman friend of James’. We also bought our plane tickets to Zanzibar for $50 each while we were there for a 4:30 flight tomorrow. I also pulled some Tanzanian shillings from an ATM, I got 300k of them (1,200 TSH = $1USD), so like $180 for the rest of the trip.
We then went with Jeremy to return the car that he borrowed from two of James’ girl Journeymen friends, Kerri and Laura Lee. We stayed there and chatted for a bit, then Kerri brought us back to Jeremy’s place where I’ll be sleeping on the couch. Not sure what we’ll do tomorrow but I’m sure it will be fun!
After our successful safari, James and I had a bush breakfast, which is a full buffet breakfast that they have set up in the bush, about 1km outside of camp. It was very romantic, and quite awkward, but overall very nice. We had the same waiter, Oliver, serving us and we even had an armed guard to protect us from who knows what. From the bush breakfast we headed to the base camp and grabbed our bags and were placed in a small safari van and taken back to the airstrip for our return flight to Nairobi. We made a quick stop during the flight (a layover of sorts, but at another camp) to drop off and pick up different passengers and switch planes. While at that stop we saw a herd of 30 – 40 elephants not too far from the airstrip, sweet!
Eventually, these Air Kenya prop planes got us back to Nairobi @ about 12:30. We gathered our bags, picked up the latest copy of Time magazine and headed back to the Baptist Mission. We repacked for our next flight, showered and unloaded my cameras memory card. Then we had a while till our flight to Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania. So we went to a mall and looked at some local stores for the wealthier folks in Nairobi, then we went to a more touristy market. James purchase some Masai clubs for about $5 each (400 Kenyan shillings about 70 KSH=$1USD).
Then we headed to the airport, grabbed a bite to eat at the airport Java house near our gate (cheese dog and iced coffee) then we boarded our plane after James had a little scare from loosing his boarding pass (he left it at one of the security check points we passed through but, was able to retrieve it without incident). Our flight to Dar was about 2 hours, I dozed off through some of it. We landed at about 9:00 p.m., had to purchase our visas for $50 each and were greeted by Jeremy, a Journeyman friend of James’. We also bought our plane tickets to Zanzibar for $50 each while we were there for a 4:30 flight tomorrow. I also pulled some Tanzanian shillings from an ATM, I got 300k of them (1,200 TSH = $1USD), so like $180 for the rest of the trip.
We then went with Jeremy to return the car that he borrowed from two of James’ girl Journeymen friends, Kerri and Laura Lee. We stayed there and chatted for a bit, then Kerri brought us back to Jeremy’s place where I’ll be sleeping on the couch. Not sure what we’ll do tomorrow but I’m sure it will be fun!
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