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 car