To find our new tented camp site we took the shortcut--that meant going thru sunflower fields, cotton fields, corn fields, tiny roads, safflower/sesame fields--they were stacked up. This was to avoid the horribly dusty and very bumpy road that was being worked on. We kept saying we must be close as we followed the electric power towers, but yet the narrow path kept on going. Finally, our destination over looking Lake Burunge...very peaceful and beautiful.
We had our first game drive today in Tarangire National Park (they call it that b/c it's like a game to try to find the animals).What a great place to start us off....HUGE baobab trees and our first time i
n our open hatched Land Rovers! Tarangire is Tanzania's 3rd largest national park with 9 distinct vegetation zones ranging from grassland to woodland, deep gully vegetation to scattered rocky hilltops. There are over 400 different species of birds in this park and boy were some of them gorgeous! Supposedly this park is home to the largest recorded concentration of breeding bird species in the world!Today we saw:
- dik dik (the smallest antelope)
- gazelles
- elephants
- wildebeasts (gnu b/c of the sound they make)
- ostrich
- zebras
- water buffalo
- warthogs (they aren't very attractive)
- giraffes
- impala
- griffon vulture
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