Dear diary,
Today, I have contracted the plague. And by that, I mean my tummy hurts. But before the development of this ailment came one of the most incredible days of my life.
It seems that I’ve said that often in these blogs, and while it could definitely point to my lack of vocabulary, I think it mostly points to the fact that every day has consistently been more incredible than the last. So I suppose you should bear with me.
Anyways, so we woke up and departed from the lodge at about 7am and made our way to Ngorongoro crater. On the way, Dr. Solomon dropped the fact that he was in the area of the Tocanchins when that season of Survivor was filmed, which was a massive lore drop that I still haven’t gotten past. Anyways, we got to the Ngorongoro crater gates and saw a bunch of baboons. A bit scary. We drove for a while on the crater rim, got to about 7600 feet of elevation, and then descended into the worlds largest caldera (and as the resident EEPS rep, I had to express my excitement as many times possible)
There were countless animals, many of which we’d seen already, so for the sake of time I’m going to stick to the highlights. Of course, I have to mention the excess of zebras. They were literally everywhere. We saw some fighting hippos, an elephant grave yard, and a lone hyaena. Finally, the coolest thing we saw by far were lions. The first one was a young male lion who had clearly lost a fight. He was trying to get comfortable and failing, with flies swarming his wounds. Bit sad, but as the say in the Lion King, it’s the circle of life. Then, we saw a whole pride of lions, who we were pretty sure inflicted the wounds on the previous. Anyways. This will all be pictured.
Xoxo 😘
Marlo
Obligatory Equus Quaggus
Hippos beefing
Flamingos “playing”
Thompson’s Gazelle being a cutie
Literally Scar from the Lion King
