Moyo Hill

The past week or so has been pretty normal and filled with classes. Yesterday we started off a week of travel lectures, field exercises and a safari in Ngorongoro! We had a lecture for all three of our classes up on the top of Kilimatembo (Elephant Hill) and then we explored a communal forest right down the road that was very different than the ones at home. They have barely any grass and the trees are burned and chopped from human impact. Today we had a bird watching field exercise for Wildlife Ecology where we climbed Moyo Hill. Moyo Hill is the actual hill where our camp is located except we are at the bottom in Rhotia. It was a nice easy hike and the birds are so beautiful! The colors are yellows, whites, blacks, blues, everything. Along with the birds this area had gigantic trees that looked normal at the trunk but seemed to have cacti as the leaves. They were wicked cool! The top of Moyo Hill had such an amazing view of towns below and at one point we could even see Karatu. The towns look so different. The grass is sparse and there is mostly dark dirt roads. Cattle is walking around everywhere. Although Moyo Hill is not very high the breeze is so much stronger than at camp. It is refreshing while the hot sun beats down on us all day. There are still so few words to describe how beautiful and interesting the world is here compared to New Hampshire.