RH Note: This week’s posts are written by guest blogger Greg Saitz, an incredibly talented writer and pet photographer. He chronicles the honeymoon he and his wife Kim took in Tanzania.
About two hours southwest from Arusha, Tarangire National Park this park is known for its herds of elephants. And we saw plenty of them. Big bulls. Little babies. They wandered so close to us at one point we were able to hear the crunching of dirt under their feet and the munching of acacia leaves in their mouths.
When one of the mothers flared her ears, blasted her trunk and started heading toward our vehicle, Joseph our guide was quick to start it up and back away. Once we were a bit farther away, the elephants went back to their business.
This was also where we discovered that tsetse flies have learned to follow safari trucks and when they bite, it feels like a hyena ripping at your flesh. The honeymoon card did not work with them.
There are tons of other animals in Tarangire besides elephants and we got to see many of them, from a male ostrich whose neck was red to attract the ladies doing a mating dance to a baby zebra trying to nurse with its clearly fed-up mother.
