Our safari really does not start until Friday (that is until Lee and Gordon, Nina's sister and husband have arrived) but there was no way Nina could sit in the hotel today and do nothing but wait so yesterday we arranged with our safari company to provide us with a vehicle and driver for the day so that we could visit the local Arusha National Park. Thus at 8:00, Swai our driver for the day (and our driver for our safari as well), was waiting for us with his relatively new Toyota safari vehicle and we soon got underway.

Arusha National Park is situated partly on the side of Mount Meru so we spent much of the day driving through tropical alpine forest, huge trees, dense undergrowth and animals everywhere. I wont go into details about the animals but rather let the photos tell that story.