Serengeti National Park to Arusha

Our last day of safari…but due to a delay of our flight we had a bonus hour or two of driving along the river and watching hippos.  Few photos, as we had packed the cameras for travel, but we unfortunately also saw crocodiles and the evidence of wildebeest who had not succeeded in crossing the river.

After a short flight, we landed in Arusha and visited a beautiful cultural center / art gallery.  We actually had been to this same place in 1999, but it had dramatically expanded and now had a gorgeous new art gallery building designed to look like a drum and shield.  The drum actually had a central ramp opening to the galleries, an African Guggenheim.  Yet more evidence of the increased tourism volume.  We were fortunate to be able to return to the Lake Daluti long enough to shower, change, and charge our varied devices before our long flights home.  Due to the vagaries of scheduling, this meant we spent the actual date of our 25th anniversary wandering around Schiphol, our flight home delayed by a few hours, with me in a slightly febrile daze.  The best possible way to celebrate 25 years together — bumping along dusty tracks, hanging on to tons of camera gear, delighting in the gorgeous animals we were privileged to observe.  

© 2017 Stephen and Mary Linton Peters