Tanzania safari
Hello! For the first night of safari I stayed at a place with private pool and it was awesome! I saw 7-10 different animals on the first day, which is super lucky and rare. A herd of elephants crossed our path and walked beside the safari truck which was super cool! When we got back there was a zebra right outside our room which made me a little bit nervous. The next place I stayed was a tented camp where you needed to call for security to bring you to the main tent so you won’t be eaten by a hyena or lion. I stayed in 2 places like that, but one moved with the migration of the wildebeest so there were no permanent water tanks and you had to call for shower water. The reason I saw so many zebra, gazelles, and wildebeest is because of the migration! The great migration is when most of the animals move from one side to the other (North to South, East to West) to find more food and water. I was told that it is vey rare to get to see 2 kills in the wild. I saw a cheetah run it’s top speed to catch a gazelle, and saw a lion catch a baby wildebeest. Our tour group had to watch the cheetah and wait for 30 minutes before it attacked the gazelle. I was incredibly excited to see a cheetah run it’s top speed and told myself that I would see it no matter how long it takes.
I think the most dangerous experience I had on the safari was when I was walking with my group, and apparently there was a lion in the bushes right beside us! It was very scary of course, but our group left that area quickly. I saw hundreds of flamingos close up and it was very cool! Do you know why flamingos are pink? They are that colour because of the food they eat. They eat pink algae and worms so much that they turn pink! Some flamingos are white because during breeding season they feed most of their food to their babies, draining them of their pink color. The next place I went was a hotel in Stone Town which is on Zanzibar. I stayed there for 2 nights and went on a walking tour. During the walking tour I visited 2 places: a turtle sanctuary and a slave museum. The tortoise sanctuary had tortoises double/triple the size of me! The tortoises I saw are actually endangered and are called Aldabra giant tortoises. It was super cool walking around watching them. There are little sections in the cages where the tortoises can get out and walk next to people. One of the tortoises got out of his cage and didn’t want to walk far to get to the entrance, so it actually broke a hole in the fence! There were also lots of peacocks running around.
The slave museum was very interesting. It talked about the history of slaves and how they were treated. I saw that they were kept in tiny chambers with about 50 people. Kids would be taken from their homes and some times separated from their family. The older slaves would be chained together because they would be more capable of running away. What I find very ironic is that the building that used to be a slave auction house is now a church. The auctioneers would whip the slaves and the ones that lasted longer would be given a higher price than the ones that didn’t last very long (gave up sooner). The slaves wanted to be sold because the conditions they were kept in until then were horrible and many of them died from suffocation and starvation.
The last place I stayed was a beautiful resort and there isn’t really much to say about that. They gave us macarons and cake as a welcome gift and the food was amazing!
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