Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Tanzania- Journal

June 16, 2009

Today we went to Tarangire Nationaly park. It was amazing. I got 15ft away from a male bull elephant! We saw a herd of elephant moms and their calfs. They were so big, but barely made a sound when they walked. The babies were so cute. They seemed so peaceful. They just roamed around us like "Hey, whats up." They were beautiful. Truly peaceful giants. I'm just in awe.
We saw tons of zebra. I really started to notice the differences between the stripes of the zebra. They really do have completely individual stripes. No two are alike!
On the way to Tarangire we saw a little Maasai boy, i think, on this hill after we got a flat. He just stood watching us with his herding stick while we took pictures of him. I bet he thought we were just so strange for snapping pictures of him like that. The Maasai culture definitely interests me. I thinking of animal patterns and light and people for my portfolio so far. Not sure on any yet.

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