2024 - Ruaha National Park, Tanzania - 18 - 21 July 2024 скачать в хорошем качестве

2024 - Ruaha National Park, Tanzania - 18 - 21 July 2024

Tanzania welcomed us with smooth roads. It seemed heaven until we joined the A104 road. It was quickly apparent that we were going to have concentrate on the much more crazy driving antics of the truck drivers in order to NOT die. Leaving Iringa, with admin done, we headed out the backroads towards Ruaha National Park. In Tanzania you time your entry to parks as the extortionate park entry fees are only for 24 hour periods. To maximise our time in the parks, we entered early afternoon so we had both morning and afternoon game drives each day. Add the car fee (thankfully we are under 2.5T reducing it several hundred USD per day) and the camping fees (also nuts) you leave the gate substantially less well off. This was a park off the beaten track, we barely saw anyone else. The game was sparse but the adventure a little higher. We took a marked and signposted track only to find it kept petering out….. requiring some tricky driving. The car definitely earned its stripes (quite literally) as we headed to an area of the park called the Little Serengeti. All the while trying to avoid the Acacia Thorns - a fruitless task despite the face these thorns are long enough to pierce your tyres. After all the bushbashing, the car was covered in tsetse flies: Doom (the most excellently named African fly spray) came to the rescue. Our campsite was magic, the sunset amazing and the hippos provided entertainment: decided the part of river they were in wasn’t the place to be, stampeded across a mid river island to the river channel on the other side of the riverbed only to settle in again happy. Our last morning game drive yielded some beautiful male lions: calling to each other and with that as our highlight we left the park happy. The road out of the park provided more experience of what we now were realising were “normal” driving habits of the Tanzanian people - crazy and dangerous. ---------------------------- Out Of Love – Luke Bergs & Simplex Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0