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Thursday, November 28th – Sunday, December 1st, 2024 World Tour Days 26 – 29 As has become typical for our Africa adventure, our journey down to Zanzibar started with lots of driving. Surprise surprise. We headed back to Arusha, Tanzania at 8am and stopped at several places along the way, including a market full of local art and Lake Mamyara. There were people on the overland truck who had not been to a Maasai village yet so we stopped there for them to check it out. Nick got to watch the Maasai people help deliver a breach baby cow. Nick…
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Wednesday, November 27th World Tour Day 25 It was hard leaving the Serengeti National Park after our experience had been so incredible, but we were in store for another incredible day. As we left the Serengeti National Park we saw two cheetahs sitting on a large termite mound close to the road. They were snuggling, and watching in many directions. There was also the largest herd of wildebeest we had seen, which were about 3-6 wide and stretched as far as the eye could eye along the horizon. There was a hyena who ran across the road, which had started…
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Sunday, November 24th – Tuesday, November 26th World Tour Days 22 – 24 On the 16th overland tour day we kicked it off with a full day drive from Nairobi, Kenya to Arusha, Tanzania where we spent the night at a campground with a pool. Tanzania is a large country so we had many long driving days in order to get to the places we wanted to see. The following day was a 7 hour drive finally making it to the Serengeti National Park. Nick and I did an afternoon game drive through the park, slowly making our way to…
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Saturday, November 16th – Saturday, November 23rd World Tour Days 14 – 21 We kicked off our next overland tour day with a 6 hour drive we made it to our campsite next to Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda where we spent the next 3 nights. Our first morning had a 4:30am wake up call for our Uganda highlight activity, gorilla trekking. We had to split up into two groups, one that could hike the typical 3-4 hours one way it takes through the jungle to get to the gorillas, and a group that due to age or medical reasons needed to…