We awoke to a nice breakfast and drove thru Arusha on the way to the Ngorongoro Crater rim to a restaurant for lunch. A very obvious contrast to the plains the cities standard are very low.
After lunch we drove thru Masai land and villages with herders and traditional Masai huts along the way,. We stopped on the rim of the crater to look in. 3.6 million years ago the crater was an active volcano that blew its top 50 or so miles wide forming this vast deep crater home to all species of animals. We will drive in the crater later in the week. The Rift Valley runs 7000 kilometers thru eastern Africa and the Oldupai Gorge where we drove today has been the birthplace of man as the oldest related bones have been identified here.
We continued our game drive into the Serengeti plains to the Lake Mask tented camp where will stay for the evening. Along the way we saw some giraffes, who can clean there own nostrils with there long black tongue, a Kori Bustard, the largest flying bird in Africa, Some other birds, Thompsons Gazelle ,the flat topped Acacia tree and a nice sunset.
Tomorrow morning we will game drive the Serengeti and Lake Nduku and continue our trek thru Eastern Africa.
That sunset picture is amazing!
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