Yesterday the whole family went to Tarangire National Park where Lucas is currently setting up a camp. It was very interesting to learn about how it works (leasing land and hosting safaris in a national park, that is). The site he is building is meant to be ready in 3 months, he already has customers booked for late April, and there are about 10 guys living there and working every day.
The park is about 2 hours away from home and the camp is another 30 minutes into the park. One of Lucas’ guides, Ally, drove us there and gave us a wonderful guided tour through some of the park. One the way, we stopped in a small town just outside the entrance to get a bite of breakfast. The restaurants are very small and it’s a quick ordeal. It’s not a dining service, the goal is more you get your food, you eat and you leave.
Today I’m going to leave the narration brief, but here are lots of photos!
A fun fact about non predatory animals is that each one has a specific height that they eat from, so there isn’t much competition between the species. For example, giraffes reach up to 18 feet and eat mainly from that level, so any other animal that simply wants to graze can come near the giraffe without disturbing it. I was surprised by how common it was to see all of the animals congregated in one area.
