The mainland of this vast county differs hugely from the slow and sleepy Zanzibar. We narrowed our choice to the Ngorongoro crater and Tarangire National Park. We decided to skip the famous Serengeti National Park, because the great Wildebeest migration had already wondered off (although all the Tanzania’s safari agencies claimed otherwise). We decided to catch up with them Kenia’s Masai Mara.
For this short trip, we decided to join an organized 2 day safari. Our jeep had a pop-up roof, which gives excellent possibilities of observing the wilderness. Lions, this a real close up, buffalo, cheetahs and giraffes, zebras within some Wildebeests. But nothing beats Marcin’s favorites: warthogs and ostriches!
Tanzania is a homeland for the great Masai tribes. There are enormous herds of sheep and goats. Among them you will spot a red dot. As you approach, the point becomes a skinny black man covered with a typical Masai cloth, ears and nose pierced, elongated pieces of skin dangling from the ears. Both men and women wear lots of colorful jewelry. It’s true that some of them are tourist traps – dressed up mannequins, who stick close to the main tourist roads, waiting for an opportunity to earn a dollar for posing to a picture. Even visiting a typical Masai village must be prearranged, while the tourists wait to enter the land, the Masai take off their Adidas shoes and dress up traditionally to perform their traditional dance. Paying money for such fake ‘folk’ is against our rules. Fortunately, off the beaten track you can still find a lot of authentic Masai.
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