RH Note: This week’s posts are written by guest blogger Greg Saitz, an incredibly talented writer and pet photographer. He chronicles the honeymoon he and his wife Kim took in Tanzania.
Our last stop to Ngorongoro Crater’s ancient collapsed volcano was a good way to round out the trip. The crater boasts one of the highest concentrations of predators in Africa, but has less than two dozen of critically endangered black rhinos. We saw a fair number of big (and little) cats (though not much in the way of chases or kills though) and one black rhino.
We also hit the nearby Olduvai Gorge, where fossils of hominins (possibly your grandfather from 1 million generations ago) were uncovered by the Leakeys. We passed, however, on taking a tour of a Maasai village after many reviews noted it had been so commercialized the encounter had all the authenticity of a Disney exhibit.
In the end, our eight days in the country were only enough to get a small taste of the country and the continent. We encountered plenty of travelers who had been stricken with the Africa bug and were on their n-th trip back. That’s easy to understand.
The sheer scale of everything, from the thousands of wildebeest and zebras to the unending plains, is hard to wrap your brain around. But it’s the way life has been for long before we were around and will be for long after we’re gone.
If that doesn’t give you a good perspective to start married life, I don’t know what will.
RH Note, again: Huge thanks to Greg and Kim for sharing their story. Readers, if you haven’t checked out Greg’s other images at Flying Fur Photography yet, they’re a must!
