March 2015 - Tanzania

Sorry about the long delay in blogging; I have many excuses - equipment failure (my fault), no internet, bad wifi, too busy biking, eating and sleeping, etc.  I see that I started this blog almost a week ago and will try to send it today.  I am now in Maun, Botswana at a very lovely resort and enjoying the comforts of a hotel room with a hot shower, air conditioning, king size bed with clean white sheets, a balcony surrounded by tropical trees and a restaurant that serves western type food (and wine).  I just finished a breakfast of 2 scrambled eggs, bacon, 3 toasts, fruit salad, yogurt, pineapple juice and coffee; it sure beats the gruel, bakers white bread, peanut butter and bananas that we are served most mornings...they do have good coffee and the bananas are great.

Tanzania -  it was the rainy season and the sky was very interesting/ beautiful, very blue with large thick white and grey clouds but we were quite lucky and only got rained on a few times but those deluges will stay in my memory.  Greener and mountains in the background.  Arusha, although we were only there for less than a day, looked and felt very interesting and fun.  The Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater safaris were incredible.

Baobab tree - see the men sitting at the base of the trunk for scale.

Landscape along the way. Cows at a watering hole; people collecting drinking water at the same locations.

Typical scene, men relaxing in the shade