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Jambo again everyone!

Today was our first day of safari and we headed west to visit the beautiful Lake Manyara National Park. The lake is known for its many migratory animals and home to more than 300 different birds.

Everyone enjoyed our first day cruising around in our safari vehicles with cold beverages in hand while seeing the animals up close, and I do mean close! I have to report that we got “crop dusted”

by one of the big elephants from about 8 ft away. That wasn’t on our bucket list.

We also manage to see a lots of baboons, a few impalas, warthogs, lots of birds, but unfortunately no big cats.

All in all it was a really nice introduction to the incredible diversity of wildlife that Africa has and the team is looking forward to seeing more tomorrow.