Woken in the middle of the night
by a loud crash – we think it was a hyena but once we were awake we realised
that we also had a couple of very large elephants within yards from “Thomson”. The noise of them tearing the bushes apart
was quite disconcerting – they can be extremely destructive.
First hour of the morning was
spent cleaning the defunct fridge as the eggs had broken and gone everywhere –
the smell of off eggs is not the best start to any morning. Once we got going we headed up the river in
the opposite direction to yesterday and were glad to see a lot more
wildlife. There were several herds of
elephants along the river bed and you could clearly see their destructive path
all along the river side. We also saw a
large pride of lions asleep under some trees plus a couple of lionesses with a
large cub sleeping further along the river bank.
Disappointed not to see more variety in
antelopes as the park is famed for this but all we saw were hundreds of impala
plus a couple of groups of lesser kudu. Lots of trees destroyed by the elephants
but still loads of huge baobab trees to see.
Left the park 6 minutes before our
deadline of 1pm (i.e. exactly 48 hrs after arriving) and headed back to Iringa
– a 3 hour drive. After a short stop in
town for petrol, money and groceries (locations of which all meticulously
researched – same ones as last time!!) headed south to our next campsite, The
Old Farmhouse, Kisolanza. A very
different camp to our previous ones – we had our own banda with seating and
cooking facilities. We had heard they
also had a farm shop where we could buy meat for tea but it turned out the meat
came in frozen packs so we now have 1.5kilos of topside beef to eat tomorrow!
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