Safari

“Few areas of the continent captivate the imagination as does Tanzania. Snowcapped Mt. Kilimanjaro towers majestically over the horizon, flamingos stand sentinel in the salt pans of Ngorongoro Crater, and the hoof beats of thousands of wildebeest echo over the Serengeti Plains. In many ways, this is the Africa of legend, where hot, dusty afternoons end abruptly in glorious blazes of sunset and velvet-black star-studded skies enfold the hills.” (Lonely Planet East Africa)

This is the Africa to which I arrived this morning. Hudson and I boarded a small propeller plane at the Kigali airport, and just over two hours later, we arrived at the Kilimanjaro airport. However, with the hot, dry air and flat, grassy land, it felt much, much farther away from the cool rolling hills of Rwanda than such a short plane ride. And so our adventure began…