Day 22 (Sat, 29 July) - Lake Manyara

After breakfast we headed down to Lake Manyara which we can actually see from our camp site as we are quite high up a hill.

The Lake Manyara Park is a quite heavily forested area surrounding the corrosive waters of Lake Manyara.

Saw many baboons, small monkeys, antelope, giraffes and aggressive elephants, two of which scared us away by charging the car.

Stopped by the hot springs on the edge of the lake and watched the buffalo ( [1] ). We dipped our hands in the water and were surprised as to how hot it was.

Headed back to our camp where we packed up and headed to a local market so that Roger could buy some fresh fruit and veg. We also managed to buy some wine and stocked up on cans of Redds!

Whilst in the market we wandered around the many souvenir shops hounded every step of the way by the shop owners. Very annoying.

Drove on to our next campsite which is near the Tarangire Park. The campsite seems quite busy but friendly. Roger is quite pleased as he has met some of his friends who are also cooks on other tours.

Had a fine dinner washed down with the wine we bought.

Watched some quite good entertainers performing some tribal dances, one of which was quite scary on account of the gruesome mask the dancer wore.