June 6
Drive to Maramboi Tented Lodge
Game drive in
Tarangire National Park 

Started the day with a driving tour of Arusha.  It was interesting to see some of the urban areas and the mix of old and modern that exists in countries like Tanzania.

Stopped at a craft shop on the way to the Maramboi Tented Camp.
Our lodge for the next two nights was the Maramboi Tented Camp on Lake Manyara.

Peggi is on the deck with the lobby and bar behind her.

A buffet was set up on the deck for open air dinning,
A view under the roof at the Maramboi Tented Camp.

The lodge had another deck you walked out to on a boardwalk where they set up lunch.
Ellie, Dianne, BJ, and Segal enjoy lunch shortly after our arrival at Maramboi.
Kathy, Mike, and Julie do the same.
Tanzania was much more heavily populated and developed than Botswana or Namibia where we went on our previous trip.

The internet was available in the office.
Our tent at the Maramboi Tented Camp.  Accommodations at the permanent tented camps are really cabins with canvas walls, whereas mobile tented camps have large canvas tents.  It's a dry dessert climate so you don't really need substantial walls.

Click here for a You Tube video tour of our tent.  You want to see this if you are thinking about a trip to Africa.
After lunch we started out on our first game drive.

We used these land cruisers for the game drives.  They proved to be very good vehicles from which to see the animals.
The entrance road to the park went through a local bazaar.  You would never find the road if you didn't know it was there. (It's directly behind the bicycle.)
Tarangire National Park was our destination.

Tarangire has the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem where dry-country antelope are regularly observed.

The park also hosts a large number of elephants.

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