Nogorongoro

Jambo, here I am again. Had a relaxing day yesterday and therefore nooo time for the blog ;-).

If I remember right I left you with the Ngorongoro. So, after the Serengeti we had a short drive to the Ngorongoro crater where we spent the night and have a game drive the day after. Arriving at the crater's camp site we set up our tents and help preparing dinner. We were told by our tourleader that we might see an elephant at the camp site drinking water out of the tank close to the kitchen. I was very excited about that as elephants are my favourite animals and to see one close up would be the greatest. While waiting for the elephant to show up we decided it was time for rum and coke also known as Cuba libre. We started drinking early that night.

After maybe 1 hour of waiting the elephant arrived at the camp and everybody camping there was assembled around the kitchen not to close but close enough to have a good view of the elephant. It was amasing and scary at the same time. Loads of pictures were taken and the elephant didn't seemed to feel disturb by it. It just stood there by the tank and enjoyed its water. And after some time trotted off to the forest again and made its way down to the crater as if it was the most normal thing in the world to go to a camp site and have a sip of water :-). I loved it :-).

Everyone went back to there tents after that and we went back to our base beside the truck where dinner was ready waiting for us. Els and I were a little bit tipsy by the time dinner was ready and spontaniously invented the elephant dance. We had a lot of fun although some people must have thought that we're completely nuts and should be delivered to the looney bin as soon as possible. Anyway we enjoyed our dance and couldn't care less about what other people think of us.

I stayed up late the night on the crater because the thought of animals wandering around our camp site was a bit disturbing. George, Ian and, unfortunately, Sauce were keeping me company. We couldn't get rid of Sauce and had to pretend to be polite until he decided to go to bed. Unfortunately, that was just short before our bedtime so what could have been a nice evening sitting around the camp fire telling stories, turned out to be another anoying evening with Sauce asking stupid questions and making stupid comments about everyting.

Anyway, I made it to bed in one piece and had a good nights sleep with my beloved earplugs and therefore snore and animal noises free. In the morning we got up early packed our stuff and prepared lunch to be ready to go down to the crater by 7 a.m. The crazy dutch and I mananged to avoid getting in the same jeep as Sauce and were happy, happy the way down to the crater. The crater wasn't as spectacular as I had in mind. But the way down to it was worth it anyway.

We saw the usual suspects and 2 male lions one of them being an older one and therefore having a beautiful mane like you'd expect all male lions to have.


Acutally there was also one funny thing happening at the crater. Sauce, Bill and Nikky were sharing a car together and were mostly behind us and the other car. So when we arrived at a crossing their driver took a shortcut and their car got stuck in mud. For us it was the funniest thing of course because it was Sauce who got stuck, the 3 people in the car weren't too please about it though. Our driver and the driver from the other car tried to free the car stuck in mud but didn't manage it because they only had a small rope and whenever one car tried to get them out of the mud the rope broke off the car dragging. In the end the drivers decided to the stuck car out of the mud with another car and everybody was happy again :-). The drive went on :-)


That's it for today folks, I'll continue with the last days of my trip later on this week. Stay tuned and take care :-)