Tarengeri Safari

The last two days at Rhotia are our safari days - first Tarengeri National Park, then Ngorongoro Conservation Area. 

Our driver Ramone has a spot of trouble in the morning due to elephants breaking a water main in town and washing out the main road. (Seriously!)

But we got going and made it to Tarengeri in 1.5 hours.



Some Maasai (or those who look like them) were posing st the entrance of the park. Then asked for $20USD. I explained we didn’t have any. Then after discovering we’re from Canada they asked us to change a $5CAD bill for USD. Gave them a fiver for it and then they tried to say it was worth $10USD. No go from me. 😀

We posed by a giant baobab tree at the park entrance. 






Then a surprise. Apparently children, not adults, need to show a passport to get in. That would have good to know TWO HOURS AGO!  Since we have their passport numbers and expiry dates in our phones, they said we could take a picture and print it. Language barriers, lack of workin WiFi and cell coverage - I was able to AirPrint this mug shot along with their passport details and we got in. 



They really liked our “pop up snorkle truck”. 


We saw wildabeast and impalas. 







 
We saw giraffes up close!


We saw warthogs (Pumba!)




And we saw elephants right by the side of th road. 




Leaving the park the girls climbed up some stairs next to a baobab tree. These things were huge. 






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