Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Road Trip in Tanzania - Part 2

Tarangeri Park:

After we hiked Mt. Hanang we continued on towards Arusha via Tarangeri Park via Babati. We experienced more fun roads that tested our driving skills learned on the road from Dodoma the previous week :)

We camped just outside of the Tarangeri Park entrance and were able to get an early start into the park the following day. This park is slightly out of the way from the main tourist route and does not receive as many visitors as the Serengeti.

Since we had our own vehicle, we were able to drive through the park by ourselves and stay and when we came across wildlife we were able to stay and watch as long as we liked…it was a nice way to do a safari and we saw lots of wildlife and my favorite – baobab trees! The roads in the park were still wet and impassable from the rains, so we were only able to drive the main roads, however, there was so much to see on the route I do not think it made any difference.

On our safari we saw…
Elephants



Giraffes

Ostriches
Olive Baboons


Impala


Birds:

And, here is my favorite out of my selection of baobab trees: