The plan is to go to today and stay at the Lodge tonight. Tomorrow we will drive out to a new Maasai school in a very remote area. The people there are not accustomed to volunteers and most likely we will be the first munchangos (white people) they see! Tomorrow night we will stay at a wilderness camp and safari in the crater, returning to Springlands Tuesday night.
Cathy, Kelly M, Teshoy, Garrett and Jessica were in one Jeep, and Owen, Justin, Kelly, AJ and I were in the other. Our driver is Emanuel. He has been a safari guide for 15 years!
The drive out was on paved roads (yea!!) and we passed fields of corn, sunflowers (used solely for oil) and groups of cows, donkeys and goats grazing on the side of the road along the way.
Coffee is a big crop here as well.
We drove through Arusha, which is the third largest city in Tanzania, and stopped at the first traffic light we have seen since we got here!
We got a flat right in front of a service station! It was our first one (knock on wood).
Scenery while waiting for the tire to be fixed was a bit different front home...
We stopped at a rest area with a very large souvenir shop, bathrooms and place to eat our box lunches. The guides told us to negotiate all prices, and we shouldn't pay more than 60% of the price, but they didn't seem to be lowering prices that much. I want to wait to see the goods in Maasai country!
Our first stop!
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