Kilimanjaro: Hahn & Team Enjoy Another Great Day on Safari
Posted by: Dave Hahn
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Kilimanjaro
Hate to brag, but our days just keep getting better. Tarangire National Park is delivering. We are still in the park -by the way- in a tent camp miles and miles away from the park entrance. There are no fences between our tents and the animals we were lucky enough to see all day long. Supposedly, the lions haven’t figured out how a zipper works yet, so we’ve got that going for us.
We saw good lions today, but they were the sleepy kind. Five lionesses taking naps in a riverbed. We saw distant and sleepy cheetahs -two of them- but they were too far away and too sleepy for photography. Just when we were thinking that was a little unfair, we got to see a mother cheetah feeding a gazelle to two of her pups… up close. It was stunning. Our team enjoyed giraffes up close. We particularly liked elephant families frolicking in mud. The team got used to seeing massive baobab trees, easily sixty feet around and possibly thousands of years old. A high point of the day, for certain, was when Johnson took us along an immense swamp shoreline at the golden hour when the light was magical before sundown. None of us could believe how many animals and birds we were seeing and how few humans. We’d given all the other cars the slip and Africa was beautiful all around us. It is our final night of Safari… we still haven’t seen a leopard but we are certainly open to a little luck for the morning commute.
Best Regards
RMI Guide Dave Hahn
