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Sun. morning I woke up early said goodbye to my family grabbed my bag and headed off to the office to meet the group. We ended up leaving late 'cause one of the safari vans was late, but nothing here is on time, so it wasn't out of the ordinary. When it came we all climbed in eager to get on the way to Tsavo National Park. The drive up there took several hours. The road for most of the way was paved, but very bad. The vans we were in luckily had good shock absorbers, but it still felt like we were off roading most of the time. The drive was slow and very bumpy.

Tsavo National Park

Rachel Buhr
2006-08-21 18:28:06

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surrounded by a storm. The sky around the park turned a dark gray/purple. The clouds were wonderful... I love the clouds here. They're sooo billowy and seem to rise up for miles. There was also lightning. I love lightning =) At one point the lightning seemed to be coming up out of the ground! I've never seen anything like that.

Just before it got dark we headed out of the park to go to where we were "camping". Apparently Athman's ideas of camping and the rest of our ideas of camping are completely opposite. We drove a while along a very bumpy and crazy road to Patterson Camp. It was sooooooooooo luxurious. I even had my own tent 'cause I volunteered to stay by myself. There were two people to a tent and we even had hot showers!!!! The meal we had there was delicious. The site was settled along a river, paths were lit by tiki torches and we pretty much had it allllllll to ourselves. It was amazing. We felt sooooo pampered. It almost wasn't fair to get us there in the evening and have us leave early the following morning, but we weren't really going to complain.

It was sooooo peaceful to wake up to the sounds of birds. I sat outside my tent and watched the sun rise over the river. It was beautiful.

The night before the guys working there said the river was full of hippos and we'd be able to see em in the morning. Unfortunately, very very early in the morning they moved down river where it was deeper. I was kind of sad that we would get to see any. Right before we left though a few of us were down by the river and a hippo popped out of the water and was mosying it's way up the opposite river bank. It was really cool to see. =) We didn't hang around much 'cause we wanted to get back in the park.

The morning was the perfect time to see the animals. It was amazing to see them all. How wonderful to watch a giraffe bend its long lanky neck to pluck leaves off a bush at its knees; to watch a group of elephants walk amongst the shrubs with babies following close behind their mothers; to see a family of baboons cross a big boulder to rest in the shade of a tree; a lilac bird pearching so proudly at the tip of the tallest branch of a short tree looking like they own the world.
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