Worth it....YES! All completely awed by the phenomenon that is the Ngorogoro crater...even if you do share it with numerous other safari trucks. Couldn't quite believe I wasn't in an Attenborough program. Found four of the 40 black rhinos that live in the crater and all felt suitably chagrined at mankind's destruction in the world to find out that the 60,000 strong population in 1970 plummeted to just 2000 in 2016. Thankfully they've doubled their numbers in the last 2 years, but quite a lesson in endangered species for the girls.
Amazed we've all been gripped enough to stay awake until the drives back to base as the early starts and long journeys are fairly sleep inducing. Requests for lunch are getting earlier....9.30 from B today....but thankfully the lunchboxes are generous. We ate in the car overlooking a hippo pool on the advice of our driver as a watchful black kite was waiting to swoop down to steal sandwiches ....we got out to stretch our legs but felt a little odd knowing we'd been in close vicinity of a lion only 10mins earlier!
Our last animal encounter of the day was on leaving the conservation area. Waiting for our driver, I was just about to warn the girls to close their windows when the reason for the warning appeared. R got the fright of her life turning to the window to find herself face to face with a big baboon in the process of climbing in. Her scream paused him long enough for M's reaction to kick in and for the baboon to beat a hasty retreat. A moment longer and I suspect the baboon would've been stealing the biscuits being munched on the back seat!
Highlights of today: R - lion, L- lion, B - R screaming!!!!
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