Day 9 Olduvai Tented Camp

The day started badly – no water in the radiator reservoir.  We were clearly even luckier to get out of the crater yesterday than we had realised but also really fortunate that there was a fuel station at the Ngorongoro headquarters 10 mins down the road with a mechanic.  An hour later and $30 worse off the hose to the radiator had been replaced.  Today’s lesson is to negotiate the price before they do the work – they wanted to charge $50!

Drive to Olduvai was along a horrendously corregated road so it was really back jarringly slow.  Visited the Olduvai museum and viewed the gorge where Mary Leakey discovered the oldest remains of man.  Interesting to hear the history of all the discoveries and to hear how it was completely by chance that the remains in the gorge were discovered in the first place – a German entomologist chasing butterflies in about 1911.

Arrived at camp at 2pm – another amazing tented lodge set on a kopjie with spectacular views.  Washing and car checks done so we actually have time to sit and enjoy a beer.  Looking forward to a sunset walk with the maasai before dinner.