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
Safari sounded amazing! Much Love Anika!- The Fam
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