Back from safari

This is just a quick post to touch base. The computer I'm on is painfully slow & can't handle much more than this... Lots of photos will follow, but possibly not until I'm back in the UK on 8th August.

We arrived back in Arusha today after an amzing 10 days on safari. We had 3 days at Tarangire National Park, 1 day at Lake Manyare NP, 3 days in the Serengeti, then 1 day in the Ngorongoro crater. All of it was fantastic, but Tarangire was especially good for elephants, & the Serengeti was obviously incredible for lions. We were lucky enough to see 2 lion kills in the Serengeti which was quite special. We also saw all of the 'big 5' (lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, & rhino) bar the rhino. However we can always count the semi-wild one we saw in Kenya! We also saw lots of cheetah, as well as hyena, jackals, giraffe, hippo, baboons, plus countless wildebeast, zebra & antelopes.

We stay tonight in Arusha, then tomorrow we have a long bus trip to Dar Es Saalam leaving at 6am, where we are hoping to arrive in time for the last ferry over to Zanzibar which leaves at 4pm. Fingers crossed... We have a week of R&R on Zanzibar, before arriving back in the UK on the 8th August.