I have had my fill of bumpy roads and driving a 4x4 this
weekend! Many an exhausting hour behind the wheel. We went to the Amani Nature
Reserve in the Usambara Mountains for the weekend – the ones we look out over
from our house. It is an incredibly interesting place, having been saved from
complete deforestation in the early 1890s by a German research camp (malaria
and other vector-borne diseases). It has a lot of very interesting history (I
will save you the lesson here, you can look it up if you are interested) and is
home to several trees, plants and animals unique to the reserve. Much to my
delight it is also home to a tea plantation (visiting one has always been on my
‘bucket list’, I drink so much of the stuff) and much to the chidlers delight
(and ours, if I am being completely honest) it is one of the best places in the
world to see chameleons (cue recurrent ‘Karma Chameleon’ by Culture Club
renditions to the delight of the parents and the embarrassment of the Chidlers [well
the oldest one anyway] – we may have just hit an important parenting landmark…
are we now officially old?).
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| Incredible views |
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| A selection of chameleons, they come and go..... they come and go...o...oh! |
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| Enraptured chidlers (and parents TBH) |
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| Tea Plantation |
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| Beautiful waterfall and perhaps one of the first hydroelectric power stations in Africa? Now disused. |
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| A typical African village 'mud brick house' |
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