To make a long story short, we took the bus from Dar Es Salaam to Arusha. It was an eleven hour sit in crowded bus with only one bathroom stop. Lots of stops in villages and roadsides, lots of poverty. The trip only cost $25 each, Linda made friends with a mom and her three year old boy, we got a taste of every day life in Tanzania and we finally made it. Then it was quite a change when we got to Arusha and our luxury hotel.
Our safari started the next day. Rather than tell all now I will relate just one event (hopefully more later). We wanted to see big cats and our guide/driver obliged. We had been driving on the pretty terrible dirt roads in Serengetti Park when our driver turned off and headed across country (you can't do that in Kruger Park). We came to a tree where there were two other safari vehicles, they were looking at a cheetah resting at the base of a tree. As we looked a third vehicle arrived and oddly, a baby zebra seemed to have adopted it and was following close alongside. The mother and father zebras were about fifty yards away in a near panic. The baby followed the truck right up to where the cheetah was resting. The cheetah saw his opportunity and took off after the baby, but junior got to mom and dad first and they faced down the cheetah. All quite exciting! I got some of the key events on film.
Later the cheetah went off to stalk the wildebeest herd.
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| Cheetah resting under a tree |
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| This is Momma, right? |
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| Snuggling up to a Toyota Land Cruiser |
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| The chase |
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| Standoff |
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| Slightly frustrated cheetah |
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