Up in the Trees

First, our lodge is very different. The main lobby and dining area is built around a huge baobab tree. It is all open facing the pool and waterhole. The rooms are spaced very far apart and are built next to or touching baobab trees. The rooms are framed with wood but the walls are all screens. You have to climb a spiral staircase to get to the room. At night they close a trap door at the top to keep “visitors” out. Unfortunately it did not work for Jennifer and Sunny they had a mouse visit every night. The fist night it opened the cookie jar and the second it knocked over the water bottle. Not the animal excitement they were looking for.

This day we had a full day game drive to a different area of the park. It was along a beautiful lake that ran for miles. We saw lots of zebra, Cape buffalo and huge herds of elephants. There were also many beautiful birds.

We then had another bush lunch and headed back to the lodge. We need to tell you that the lunches prepared by the lodges were amazing. They usually had 2 different meat dishes, several salads, fruit and of course dessert. We had expected sandwiches and chips and were very surprised and pleased.

When we arrived back at the lodge we had some elephants at the waterhole.

For our final evening we had dinner in the boma with Richard joining us. It was a fabulous end to an amazing trip.

This was our wake up call the last morning. Right next to our treehouse.

We have now started back. Jennifer, Sunny, Jacob and Abby are off to Zanzibar for a few days. Bob and Bette back home.

It was truly a wonderful, eye opening trip. We saw so much and learned quite a bit about Tanzania.