Heading out they hit a cow. Coming back they hit a car. For those in Land Cruiser number 4 the trip to, through and from Ngorongoro Conservation Area was particularly eventful.
For everyone else the trip was wonderful, if a little less exciting.
After the medical team’s great successes at the clinic and the tech team’s efforts with the HUB training everyone was in need of a break and Ngorongoro was just the thing.
Our land cruisers left at 7:15 a.m. for the safari and we arrived at the park at 10:45 a.m. The landscape on the journey to the park was beautiful, but once we made in onto the rim of the crater that fences in Ngorongoro, we could remember nothing else.
The website calls this place the “Eden of Africa” and I think we would all agree with it on that point.
The tour lasted six hours and took us up the side of the crater to the rim, around the rim through the thick brush and foliage, down into the crater and then back up and out of the park.
We saw so many incredible animals while on the safari, including a pair of happy newlyweds (see above).
One pair was particularly amusing. Two juvenile male lions loitering beside the road decided to take advantage of the shade of our Land Cruisers and plopped themselves down beside the ill fated truck number 4. No one was injured, but those lions certainly put in some face time for our cameras.
We saw elephants, gazelle, rhinocerous, ostriches, and rich Serengeti ringed all around by beautiful mountains. That place is an enchanted paradise of trees, crystal clear air and incredible views.
We had a great day and it was a great way to wrap up the very first, message-sponsored medical missions trip. We are so grateful to have had the privilege of serving the people of Tanzania.
Tomorrow we will have service with the believers at the Evening Light Tabernacle and head for the airport at 6 p.m. please pray for our flights and please never stop praying for the people of Tanzania.
God Bless you all.
