Maasai Market & Tarangire National Park

Yesterday and today were such great days! We spent our day off hanging around camp in the morning (getting some more sleep!) and went into the Maasai Market. I got to bargain a lot, which I love! The people there are just so awesome. You walk into the market and they are all like "Karibu, come into my shop!" After shopping we went to a pizza place called Pizza Point and got some really good pizza and beer (their beers are named after places in Tanzania (Kilimanjaro, Serengeti). Today was even more awesome! We had a field trip for our Wildlife Management class to collect animal count data in Tarangire National Park. We were there the whole day and saw so many animals! There were tons of elephants, zebras, wildebeest, buffalo, warthogs, giraffes, ostriches, mongoose, and so many pretty birds! The giraffe in this picture walked right in front of our Land Cruiser! All the animals just hang out wherever they want. One family of elephants stood in the middle of the road for a good 10 minutes. Around that same time we saw a lion!!  That was one of the only species I hadn't seen that I really wanted to and it was so beautiful! None of my pictures of the lion came out very good because my digital camera doesn't have an attachable zoom lens but some the people that had better cameras got great pictures. If you ever get the chance to go on an trip like this I would definitely recommend putting the money into a decent SLR digital camera. It is definitely worth the money to capture such amazing once in a lifetime moments. We also saw a cheetah which is wicked rare in the park that we were at. It was laying underneath a tree behind some tall grass but we could see it's face sometimes and it's tail. Both the lion and the cheetah were amazing sights!