Traveling
  • 2018 Europe XXVII
    • Day 1 - Arrival in Luzern
    • Day 2 - Luzern
    • Day 3 - Bern
    • Day 4 - Last Day in Bern
  • 2015 Round the World (Pages in Progress)
    • 2015 Cuzco, Peru
    • 2015 Sacred Valley
    • 2015 Machu Picchu
    • 2015 To the Rain Forrest
    • 2015 Cayman Lodge #OffTheGrid
    • 2015 Rain Forest - Day 1
    • 2015 Rain Forest - Day 2
    • 2015 Lima, Peru
    • 2015 Berlin
    • 2015 Warsaw, Poland
    • 2015 Krakow, Poland
    • 2015 Ho Chi Minh City - Day 1
    • 2015 Ho Chi Minh City - Day 2
    • 2015 Bus Ride to Cambodia
    • 2015 Phnom Penh
    • 2015 Floating City, Cambodia
    • 2015 Angkor Wat - Siem Reap, Cambodia
    • 2015 Angkor Wat - Sunrise
    • 2015 - Battambang, Cambodia
    • 2015 - Bangkok, Thailand
    • 2015 - New Zealand Bike Tour - Days 1 and 2
  • August 2015 Europe (in progress)
    • Day 2 - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
  • Brazil - World Cup 2014
    • Argentina vs Swiss 2014 World Cup
    • Santos - The Lifeguard Study
    • Sao Paulo
    • More Santos and the BBQ
  • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bicycle Race
    • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bike Race - Morning Session
    • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bike Race - Afternoon Session
  • Africa Trip - February 2013
    • 2013 Days 15 and 16 Zanzibar
    • 2013 Day 14 Safari Ends
    • 2013 Day 13 Tarangire
    • 2013 Day 12 Ngorongoro
    • 2013 Day 11 Serengeti to Ngorongoro
    • 2013 Day 10 Serengeti
    • 2013 Day 9 - Drive to Serengeti
    • 2013 Day 8 - First Day on Safari
    • 2013 Days 5, 6 and 7
    • 2013 Day 4 Cape Town
    • 2013 Day 3 Cape Town
  • 2014 New Zealand - North Island
    • Auckland
    • The Drive to Napier
  • 2013 Baltic Countries
    • 2013 Valnius
    • 2013 Riga, Latvia
    • 2013 Tallinn, Estonia
    • 2013 Tartu, Estonia
    • 2013 Stockholm
  • Barcelona - April 2013
    • Dali Museum
    • Futbol Club Barcelona
  • Nature Valley Grand Prix - Stillwater, MN 16 June 2013
  • 2001
  • Misc. Minneapolis
  • 2014 Red Bull Crashed Ice
  • Birchwood Team 2016
This morning we drove to Tarangire National Park arriving late morning for a pre-lunch game drive.  The park is noted for having the highest number of elephants per square kilometer of any place on the planet.  We certainly saw elephants.  

There are monkeys that hang around the park entrance, they look for food.  We were warned to both keep the windows closed and top down while waiting for our guide to pay our park fees as the monkeys will try to get in the vehicles and steal food.  I did hear one guy, who had left the windows open yell at a monkey he thought was getting to close.  One monkey was enjoying a banana, I’m not sure if he had stolen it or someone had given it to him.

The elephants here look brown rather than the gray we’ve seen previously.  We were told this is from the mud in the water that they spray on themselves to keep cool.  Looking closer to the elephant, you can tell that, yes, it’s mud.

Back at lower elevations, it’s warmer … and more humid.  I was feeling a bit dehydrated earlier in the day and managed to drink nearly 4 liters of water.  Water helps.

We’ve seen animals that we’ve seen other places, more elephants and giraffes than before.  We saw one lion napping under a bush.

After lunch and a time to relax we had a couple of hour afternoon  game drive.  Tomorrow I head to the airport for a short flight to Zanzibar

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