As a kind of
belated birthday celebration, the AIM team decided to take me for a one-day,
self-drive safari to Lake Manyara National Park. Manyara is beautiful, with
terrain that varies from wooded streams to dry, grassy plains.
The
elephants we saw at Manyara were smaller (or younger?) than others we have seen
in Tanzania, but that didn't keep us from stopping for a few minutes. Since they
were so close, we enjoyed watching the whole family of them as they ate and
observed us.
Even the baboons seemed to be taking a day off, sitting in the shade and grooming each other near a small hippo pool.
