Safari

On our first full day in Tanzania, we went on a day safari! It was so cool, I can't even put it into words. First we were picked up by a jeep, and we drove to the Arusha national park to start our safari. I was in a jeep with three other people on our trip, the driver, and a graduate student from Duke who was traveling around Tanzania and Kenya. The trip to the national park was about half of an hour, and it was really cool being able to see Tanzania during the day, because up to that point, we had only seen it at night. There were so many people just walking around the road, going about their business. Sometimes as a big group of Americans, people pay attention to us and wave to us a lot. They also call anyone who isn't from Africa a Muzungu (i dont think that is spelled right), which literally means white person. But it doesn't matter if you are Asian or Hispanic or anything else, they still call you Muzungu. But it's not meant to be a mean term or anything, and it just makes everyone laugh.
Anyway, we got to the national park, and drove around in the jeep for awhile. We saw a huge herd of giraffes and zebras. Then we ate lunch and took a hike to a waterfall, which was amazing! We got within about 20 feet from a family of like thirty giraffes, and we took so many pictures of them. They were just standig there staring at us, wondering who the heck we were!
When we got back from the safari, we walked to the non-tourist part of Arusha and went to an Indian restaurant. It was delicious! its funny how there it seems like there is more Indian, Chinese, and Mexican food in Tanzania and Rwanda than there is African food! But it is all delicious.