Once again I had another amazing day out in the field here in Tanzania. This time we went to Ngorongoro crater which, lucky for us is only one hour away. After a guest lecture from the development and tourism manager, we head
ed into the crater for a game drive. I saw hyenas, lions, wildebeest, cape buffalo, elephants and zebra all before lunch time. For lunch we stopped at the hippo pools where we had to eat our packed lunch inside because of the black kites that will steal your food. Just ten minutes after getting back out in the field we finally saw a black rhino. It was far away and the heat wave made it hard to take a good picture, but it made my day. We also got to see so many lions up close. It was weird not having to take any field notes that day and just taking lots of pictures and watching the animals. It has now been eight days straight of classes and field exercises so tomorrow we get a day off and I plan on heading into Karatu to check out a coffee farm and to do some relaxing.
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This is too much! I'm loving all of the photos and hearing about everything you are doing. I want to hear about this coffee farm you are going to, also I wanted to see photos of that market you were going to go to in your last post because that sounded pretty cool.
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