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A cold and wet morning! Simon brought tea and juice to our room
at 7.00am and we made our way down to the communal area of Tree
Camp for 7.30am. Unlike yesterday, we couldn't see down into the
crater due to all the mist.
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8.30am Tim was driving us down into the crater. At the entrance,
Tim left the vehicle to pay the entry fees whilst we were approached
by some Masai who wanted us to take their picture, presumably in
exhange for money. We told him about this when he returned and he
seemed well aware of them and referred to them as 'the Masai models'...!
We then dropped down into the crater and saw superb starlings, Hildebrand
starlings, baboons, monkeys, elephants, buffalo, zebras, lions (including
one very lazy one!), hippos, flamingos, and a rhino.
We had lunch at a picnic spot within the crater and then returned
to Ngorongoro Crater Lodge. We could hear the wedding taking place
there, and a number of Masai singing as part of the ceremony. We
later discovered that the couple getting married had the option
of polygamy, partial polygamy or monogomy on their wedding certificate!
Not wishing to be too nosey, we returned to our room where a fire
had already been lit by Simon. We relaxed before heading down for
dinner and met a honeymoon couple from New York and chatted over
a few glasses of wine. The dinner menu was relayed to us by the
chef, and Irene's wife, Frank. Understanding what he said was a
little tricky and yesterday, when he had recited the menu to us,
we hadn't realised that we were meant to choose from the two main
courses he mentioned. This time, we were 'on the case' because he
said that the main course consisted of duck and prawns. We duly
made our selection only to be told there was 'no choicey' - it was
all coming on one plate?! (We chuckled to ourselves as the neighbouring
table made the same error.) Confusion aside, the food was delicious.
After dinner, we were escorted back to our accommodation. It was
only a few steps but we were quite out of breath and began wondering
if we were over-indulging a little too much. Then it dawned on us...
we weren't used to the altitude.
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