We have now arrived in Sasakwa, and are currently sitting in the cottage after lunch, which was delicious. Flying from Nairobi to Tanzania didn't take long, although we had two stops on the way. Because they drop you off at the lodge, you need to stop at an actual airport earlier, so you can clear customs before entering Tanzania. The next stop was to pick up some other passengers who were on their way to Kilmanjaro. The plane kind of would pick people up, drop other passengers off, then pick up some more kind of thing. Each stop might have been anything from 2 hours to ten minutes between. We had quite a surprise flying over the plains today and seeing a herd of zebra as we were coming in to land.

Today we already have had a swim, in a nice warm pool, and we are going for an evening safari later. We could see elephants in the distance out the window earlier.

Apparently the annual migration of animals was earlier this year, because the early rains threw them off, but are expected to come back in the next month or so. We are assured there are still really good animals around to see at the moment though. During lunch a monkey jumped up on someone elses table, causing a woman to scream. It was a good reminder to lock your doors if you leave the cottage so that monkeys can't get in. Closing the doors isn't enough, because the monkeys can open them.

Georgia