Friday, January 16, 2015

Travels with the family!

January 5, 2015

My parents were just here for 3 weeks and my brother was here for 2 of those! Here's some stuff we did! Mostly pictures.

 Dad and me in the bus on the way to Makambako from the airport in Iringa

Me, dad and another volunteer in Makambako

The inside of my house

Mom and me at my house

Me and Kaduma at my house. My parents brought some Christmas gifts for him from the states.

My house from the front

Going for a walk to the school

Mom, me and Kaduma at the school

Dad taking pictures at my house

Mom being a geologist. She brought her own hand lens to check out the rocks in my area.

We went for a hike down to the river and took a look at some cool rocks on the way



Me with some students in the village

Looking down the main road of my village

We met up with Reed in Dar after checking out my area

Then we went to Tanga on the coast and went to an old ruin

Fam

We went to a salt "mine" where they used these huge fields to evaporate sea water.
We went to the Amboni caves near Tanga


Reed in the cave

Family at the guest house in Tanga

Family picture

Watching mom swim in the Indian Ocean in Tanga


Then we went to Moshi for Christmas. View of Mount Kilimanjaro from our hotel.



The family overlooking Ngorongoro crater

The crater view from the rim
Zebra
Zebra
Warthog
An ostrich 

Hyena
The fam in the safari car

Dad in the safari car


View of the crater floor from the rim

Giraffe close up
Oldupai ancient human excavation site
Family at Oldupai ancient site. This is where some of the earliest human remains in the world have been found.

Cast of ancient human footprints

Vulture and zebras. Serengeti.


On safari in Serengeti national park

Leopard

Cheetah
Dad at Serengeti.

Mom looking for animals


Baboons


Hippos

Dad at the visitors center

Elephants 

Another elephant

 Lions
Baboon mom

After our safari we went to Zanzibar for New Years, a spice tour and a walking tour of Stonetown. Then it was back to Dar Es Salaam and the family took off to the US. I'm still here for another 7 or 8 months.

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