The Rest Of The Trip!! 28th August - 6th Sept

So, unfortunately for the rest of the trip I failed to keep my diary going... But, on the 28th August we started the day with the porters congratulating us on getting to the top, and singing a few songs for us - which was great! Then we carried on down the bottom of the mountain, Simon and I took quite a long time... But we got to see a few animals on the way down!

Chama-Chama-Chama-Chama-Chama-Chameleoonn

 The picture I took wasn't great, but we saw a very cute little chameleon crossing our path, which our guide gave a lift across the path to. We also saw loads more of the monkeys we'd seen on the first day (the ones that look like tree skunks). And last but not least we saw a baby blind mole rat which was scuttling around the path.

When we were nearing the end of our trek down the mountain, we got picked up by the mountain 'ambulance' (as it was getting quite late) which meant we got a fun, off-road drive down to the bottom of the mountain! When we got to the bottom, we had to sign out (so they knew we'd left the mountain) - which they'd kept open for specially for us! And then had some very delayed lunch of cold chicken and chips before getting a lift back to Mama Moshi's, where we were greeted with a cheer from the rest of the team. We were excited to finally get a hot shower... Until it turned out there'd been power cuts, so there was no hot water... Sad times... But we troopered on and had a celebratory meal and beer with the rest of the team before getting an early night ready to head on Safari the next day.

Elephants in camp!

On the 29th we headed to Tarangire National Park for our lunch and then an evening game drive. When we arrived we were amazed to see how close the animals were to our camp, there were so many elephants just walking around our camp! After being given our tents, we went on our evening game drive, where we saw loads of animals, but to name to most important - we saw elephants (obviously!), giraffes, zebra, ostriches, lions and a leopard. (So now, I'm going to show you a few of my best photos)

When we finished the game drive we came back to camp for a meal, and got ourselves to bed ready for another early morning, as we were doing a morning game drive the next day. 

Leopard just chilling in the tree

So, the next day we woke up bright and early for breakfast before our morning game drive. Today's game drive was incredibly successful, as we, very luckily, got to see some cheetahs! It was very exciting for everyone when our driver heard there were cheetahs around and we headed there!

Cheetahs underneath a tree

(Annoyingly I can't get all these pictures to go in the places I want them to.. grr..) Anyway, after that we headed back to Hostel Hoff (near Mama Moshi's) ready to travel to Zanzibar tomorrow!! 

We shared  a delicious meal, and played some card games (and petted the very sweet dogs that lived at the hostel) - they were genuinely very cute, one of them kept climbing into peoples laps so they would pet them :D 

I've decided I'll continue on a separate blog post, as this one's a lot longer than I thought it would be!! So I'll try post about our time in Zanzibar ASAP!! And then I can get back to blogging normal arthritis-y stuff! (blegh)!!

Hope you're enjoying reading about my time in Tanzania!!

TTFN,

Ta ta for now! :)