Tanzania

June 23 – July 20, 2017

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✈ Arusha

🚗 KIA (Meeting Teresi again in a new kitchen shed, stay with the pastor)

🚗 Boma Ng´ombe, KIA (sim card challenges for Z)

🚌 Arusha (Fighting with the hotel hawkers, views of Mount Meru)

Daladala daladala 🚲  Engaramtoni, Oldonyo Sambu, Mkuru (A special pickup by two warriors on motorbikes, arriving home in the boma with the women´s ululations, climbin Oldonyo Lendare, working as a team with Paolo)

🚲 👍 👣 Orgunwado, Mkuru (goat market, orpul on the hillside, I shock Z by killing, blood and raw kidneys, prayers with Isaya)

🚲 🚌 🚗 Orgunwado, Momella, Arusha National Park, Momella, Arusha National Park, Usa River (Falling through the bridge with the motorbike, giraffes around the bus, driving through the green, mayor hold-up at the park gate, an amazing friend comes to safe us, Z´s first wildlife and elephants, immense love exchanged through the eyes, visiting luxury camps and marketing for the exposition)

🚌 🚌 🚌 🚲 Arusha, Engaramtoni, Oldonyo Sambu, Mkuru (continuing visiting so many friends, emotional gifts of a small goat, speech to the beadwork ladies)

🚲👣 👍 👣 🚗 👣 🚗 Enkikaret, Kiserian, Kitumbeine, Gelai Bomba, Engaresero, Lake Natron, Oldonyo Lengai, Engaresero (loads of giraffe-necked antelopes, dusty motorride search for Isaya, back in the huge Kitumbeine boma, carrying loads of water, Z´s blisters and a ride to water, isipolios with spears and money searching mwenyekiti, crossing the desert with loads of dead animals, sleeping at the fire in an open korongo, making new friends on the edge of Lake Natron, nightly track and sleep on the volcano, amazing sunrise whilst hearing the magma rumble and looking at the cracks and smoke under our feet, a flirtatious guide and friend to go down the steep and slippery top, dancing when coming down, relaxed sleeping and lots of chapatti, roast and chai rangi with prices reducing to local, magical waterfall track crossing the river dozens of times and swimming in the lush vegetation underneath the rocks and falls).   

🚌 🚌 🚲 motorbike Arusha, Ngaramtoni, Oldonyo Sambu, Mkuru (nightly arrival and threatening matatu people, gift of a young sheep, intense prayers with Paolo, Z´s time at Ana´s shop).

🚲 👍 🚕 🚲 🚕 Arusha (Friendly safari people, luxury pool lodge, high fever hospital night)

🚌 Namanga (completely new border crossing)

 

Kenya

July 20-29, 2017

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🚌 🚗 Nairobi (A warm welcome in the house of jurists)

🚗(uber) 🚗 Narok, Talek, Masai Mara National Reserve, Talek, Aitong, Rhino Sanctuary, Talek (Reunion with Amos, lots of hippos and hyenas, a huge pride of lions at the Mara river, magical moments with an elephant family and a secretive leopard, nightly fires, secret river crossing and camping surrounded by a herd of 12 elephants, close encounters with white rhinos)

🚗 (probox) 🚌 🚌 🚲 Narok, Nairobi (A black rhino during the last morning park crossing , playing with the twins and the new baby, relationship talks in the night)

✈✈ Cairo, Nuremberg

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