I will be completely upfront in saying that I have always been
a little bit of a sceptic about the idea of a Safari.
I absolutely love being outside and enjoying natures
playground. Furthermore, the pull of Africa’s ‘Big Game Animals’ is a strong
one. Elephants, giraffes, zebras, big cats are such a thing of wonderment and have
captivated a sense of intrigue within me ever since childhood. However, as soon
as something becomes a commercial venture, it becomes far less appealing to me.
I could spend hundreds of words of prose unpicking this, but will resist my
urge. Needless to say, when I saw the actual costs of going on Safari (even
though we were already in the country) I had to stop myself from choking and
just accept that we were going to do it – we had to do it after all.
I was also a little hesitant about how the children would
cope. Essentially, we would be in a car for five days (3 days on actual safari
plus the travel) with an 11, 9 and 5 ½ year old. Gulp!
At the end of day one, I can say that it was brilliant!
Absolutely brilliant.
It was an early start this morning, up at 05.30 to be in the
car for 6am. We had a 3hr journey to the first game park, factoring in a stop for
breakfast. We arrived at the entrance to Tarangire Nation Park, all of us very
excited. The intrigue increased as having parked up, we walked to reception to
register past a number of elephant skulls! There was also a staircase around one
of the giant baobab trees.
When we returned to the car the top had gone up,
transforming our mechanical steed into something that was much more fun! There is
something magical about driving along with you head in the wind, being thrown
about on the bumpy tracks looking around eagerly in the hope of spotting
something. I shouldn’t have worried about the children, they loved it. And we
were not disappointed. The scenery was stunning and the wildlife breath taking.
I can’t resist posting a few photos. So many magical moments but the highlights
must be a troop of elephants coming right up to the car at one point, also crossing
the road; seeing some lion in the distance hunting and we got a rare close up sighting
of three leopards.
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| Elephants, so close we could almost touch them! |
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| Family Ostritch |
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| Beautiful Zebra |
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| Stunning Giraffe |
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| Lion |
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| Rare close-sighting of Leopard |
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| Our very own Jerry and Zebbe in their native homeland! |
It was an early start this morning, up at 05.30 to be in the
car for 6am. We had a 3hr journey to the first game park, factoring in a stop for
breakfast. We arrived at the entrance to Tarangire Nation Park, all of us very
excited. The intrigue increased as having parked up, we walked to reception to
register past a number of elephant skulls! There was also a staircase around one
of the giant baobab trees. 
When we returned to the car the top had gone up,
transforming our mechanical steed into something that was much more fun! There is
something magical about driving along with you head in the wind, being thrown
about on the bumpy tracks looking around eagerly in the hope of spotting
something. I shouldn’t have worried about the children, they loved it. And we
were not disappointed. The scenery was stunning and the wildlife breath taking.
I can’t resist posting a few photos. So many magical moments but the highlights
must be a troop of elephants coming right up to the car at one point, also crossing
the road; seeing some lion in the distance hunting and we got a rare close up sighting
of three leopards. 
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