Our First Game Drive

> Elephants, zebras, ostriches, baboons, wildebeasts, monkeys,
> giraffes, impalas, dik diks and more. What a great first game
> drive! We even got within reachout and touch (or from their stand
> point, reach out and rip a limb off) distance to a mother elephant
> and her baby. We are staying at a lodge inside the Tarangire
> Reserve and can literally see elephants and impala from our balcony.
>
> I have to say, however, that the best part of the day from my
> standpoint was the drive to Tarangire, which took us through several
> small towns and past dozens of Masai domas. We even stopped at a
> Masai market where they trade with each other (no tourist souvenirs
> here). A highlight was seeing two 5-year-old Masai boys wearing
> traditional red blankets and carrying the requisite acacia sticks in
> charge all by themselves of a herd of 40 or 50 livestock.
>
> The animals are phenomenal and the country is breathtaking, but I
> can tell already that it will be the people of Tanzania that stay
> with us.