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Safari Day 1... Manyara National Park by… Jacob, Riley, Kate, and Anika


Manyara National Park Safari by… Jacob, Riley, Kate, and Anika

Today we had to get up early, and had an early breakfast. We departed for our safari at 8 A.M. We then had a 4-hour drive to our safari. Along the way we stopped at a gift shop and enjoyed getting our last minute gifts for friends and family. After the gift shop we went straight to the main gate of the park, had lunch, then went into the park. Everyone was really excited and we were greeted by lots of baboons and birds (mostly cranes). After we got through the forest we entered the Savannah. This is what we imaged a safari to be like. As we were driving we were allowed to stand on the seats and were able to look out of the open roof so we could get a better view of the animals. Some animals that we were lucky enough to see were many zebras, elephants, giraffes, hippos, wildebeest, warthogs, impalas, lots of birds, and Riley saw a dik-dik. To get a closer look at the hippos we got out of our safari cars and went onto a bridge overlooking the hippo pond. About half way through our safari we came across a family of elephants that were only 20 feet away from us. It was really cool for everyone to see elephants up close because none of us had experienced that before. After experiencing a safari for the first time we made a slight detour to an overlook of where we just drove through. When we got to our campsite it was much more than we expected, and we were thrilled to sit down and eat dinner. After dinner we were shown our tents and got to bed early because we had an early morning the next day.  All of us are really excited for tomorrow, and hoping to see a lion and maybe a rhino or two! Also don’t worry because we got our vitamin C today!

See you soon everyone, much love! – Anika

Love you and see you soon fam. I am having an amazing time! – Kate

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