Our household journey to Tanzania and Rwanda was such a rare journey. We’re all nonetheless on Cloud 9–unsure if I’ll ever come down! Listed here are our favourite footage from our journey.
We arrived in Tanzania and met the son of the Maasai chieftain the following morning. On this globe, we confirmed the kids the place they’re, then Seattle and Nashville, the place we’d simply flown from.
All dressed up.
Invoice joined in on the standard dance!
As we left, the Maasai sang goodbye to us.
Tarangire Nationwide Park
Noellie led the bush stroll and Kimani and Maulidi introduced up the rear. We felt protected!
Dawn outdoors our tent the primary morning.
Mongoose peeking over an ant hill.
Our first giraffe in Tarangire.
Oh, these orange, mud-caked beauties!
Thrilling!
Our resident ostriches. We all the time handed them on our method again to camp.
Dawn at fly-camp.
Invoice and Kimani evaluating knives. They have been finest buddies by the top of the three days. Kimani nicknamed Invoice “mbogo,” which suggests “buffalo.”
We had an important shock after we rounded the bend! He was trying out the chances.
You might not wipe the smile off of my face the complete journey.
Ngorongoro Crater
Our first take a look at Ngorongoro Crater on a hazy day. Be nonetheless my coronary heart!
Oh, how I beloved the “striped donkeys”! Couldn’t get sufficient of these stripes!
Utilizing Invoice for a tripod.
There should be one thing close by.
A hippo!
We noticed an endangered black rhino…very distant, however wonderful all the identical.
Maasai, vibrant of their purple shukas, on the inexperienced crater rim.
Why the lengthy face?
Who doesn’t love a child?
Serengeti
Peek-a-boo!
Naiman stated, “get him yawning, he’s lacking a canine tooth.” How may he see that? Naiman had Superman powers of imaginative and prescient.
The one jackal we noticed.
A two-headed giraffe?
Noticed this honey badger and gave chase. He then turned and charged us! Honey badger don’t care!
On this morning, we began out early, 5am wake-up, and it was FOGGY. Then we turned a bend and noticed these beauties. How spectacular!
I beloved the employees a lot in each camps.
Our Journey Chief, Naiman, was household after 9 days. We love him!
We noticed a satisfaction of 18 lions and shortly after our jeep bottomed out in a muddy creek (it was a severe bottoming out, however Naiman prevailed as normal), then we arrived right here at a kopje. Naiman took this image after which bought his machete out “for security’s sake.” Tilghman was a bit nervous, in any case we had simply seen 18 lions and a few cheetahs.
With Naiman’s security precaution in thoughts, we approached the rocks cautiously and heard lion grunting, however then these three heads popped up! Shock sundowners arrange by the crew!
Kapush in silhouette.
Rwanda
We arrived in Rwanda and took half in some drumming earlier than we headed into the comb to fulfill the mountain gorillas.
This black-back practically knocked Will off of his toes whereas cruising via the comb, however then he was good sufficient to cease and pose for an image. Couldn’t wipe the smile off Will’s face for days.
This momma and child got here out of nowhere. Momma whacked my leg and child slapped my arm, “get outta the way in which!” I used to be in heaven!
This gorilla’s nails appeared higher than mine ever do!
Wow. Extra wow! They have been all so totally different and delightful. Wonderful.
We hiked in some severe jungle.
We beloved our crew. Theo knew precisely when to carry my hand!
As we walked by, these kids have been dancing. All of them waved and yelled, “hiya, hiya, hiya.” It was one in all my favourite elements of the trek.
