Full day to explore the Ruaha park
so we set off at about 8.30 with the aim of doing a leisurely drive and finding
a nice brunch spot. Best laid
plans! Having fleetingly seen a leopard
quite soon after we started we then saw nothing for hours – the only living
creatures were tetse flies which were everywhere and seemed even more vicious
than in Tarangire. We did see a coach
load of school children playing on a rope bridge – they were having loads of
fun and it great to see the local kids getting the opportunity to visit the
park. Eventually made our way back to the Ruaha river that runs through the
park where there were a few impala, lesser and greater kudu, the odd dik dik
and a herd of zebras and giraffes. We
concluded that the wildlife must have all migrated to somewhere more lush but
the news headlines that we had read before we left about the disappearance of
40,000 elephants was never far from our thoughts.
Returned to our camping spot from
yesterday at about 2pm having discovered that both the other public campsites
marked on the map were in the process of being reconstructed – for once we had
a map that was so new that it was ahead of the game! Much discussion about what to have for tea as
I was vetoing corn beef and Ian wouldn’t eat tinned tuna. In the end Ian’s strange but tasty concoction
of fried rice with onions, ginger, garlic, chopped baked potato (cooked a
couple of nights ago), egg, raisins and dried apricots.
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