Rest day at Arusha
Today we started relaxed, started at 9 with a delicious breakfast. They made scrambled eggs and they had a lot of fresh fruit. The coffee is made in a traditional way, despite it is at a coffee estate Tanzanians are not coffee drinkers. But we Dutch are so the bread, cheese and coffee were gone rather quickly.
After lunch we had a briefing for the game drive starting tomorrow. The guide informed us on what to expect the next days. After we had a coffee with the guide and he told us about Tanzania and personal experiences with wildlife as a local.
The lunch was a nice soup with delicious quesadillas. The hotel work on their eco footprint and the food is rather without meat but they manage to make delicious food.
After lunch we were picked up by James again, the driver who drove us from the airport yesterday. We booked the snake park and Masaai museum for this afternoon. Today also the guide joined who will guide us on the game drives.
Before we went to the snake park, the guide showed us Arusha city. It is a huge difference from our cities, not much structure.
We passed the torch, that is a monument to remind their independence from Britain in 1961. We then continued our journey to the snake park. On the way we stumbled on a huge motorcycle event, many people and many motorcycles, it was like the TT Assen.
At the Snake park there was a guide who told us everything about the snakes. They had all sorts of snakes and many of them are in Tanzania, among them the Black Mamba, the venom can kill a person in 1 hour. The snake park was also connected to a hospital that is specialized in snake bites. The snake park also had birds that were recovering there and they had some nile crocodiles which we can spot during our game drives.
We changed from the Snake park guide to the Masaai museum guide. The Masaai museum is on the other side of the road. It was an interesting story about the Masaai tribe. They were nomads with life stock, lived one year on a location and move on. He shared a detailed story on how the boys became warriors, not something which would be fitting our culture.
After this interesting but rather shocking story we went back to the hotel, back along the motorcycle event. We could see crazy guys making wheelies and drive between the traffic as lunatics. I could enjoy it honestly.
We returned quite late back at the hotel, so quickly we moved to the restaurant for dinner. Tonight we had a Nile perch, which was delicious.