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Hello everyone.  In this blog I'm going to tell you all about our trip to the country of Tanzania, where we went on an 11-day camping safari with our friends, the Coxes.

We flew to Mount Kilimanjaro to meet up with our friends Kathy, Timmy, Brian and Jenny. Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa and it was cool to see that it had snow on top of it while we were sitting in the hot African plains. Our guides, Raymond and Onesmo, met us at the hotel and then we set off for our first camping spot, in Tarangire National Park.

When we got to our campsite, it was a lot different then the places we had stayed on our previous safaris.  Here, we had our own crew from Wild Frontiers go ahead of us and set up camp, so when we got there, there were four tents set up for our two families. There was also a big dining tent and an area for the crew to do the cooking and sleep. It was cool to be right out in the middle of the bush with no fences around the camp, so animals could walk right through. One night there were eighty elephants around our camp while we were asleep. All of the adults where wide awake, but us four kids slept right through it.  So we didn't get to see the elephants, but our parents told us about it.  On our last night of camping, a hyena went over to Kathy's tent and decided to "mark its territory" on it!

The other thing different about this type of safari were the jeeps we rode in. They weren't open air like the ones we had in South Africa and Botswana. Instead, the roof could come off so you can stand up and stick your head out to look at the animals. There were two jeeps, so half of the time the parents would be in one jeep while the kids were in another, which was really fun.

Hello people. We just spent seven great days on safari in Botswana and spent most of it with the same guide named Charles. He was really nice and had a great personality. Charles came with us to two different camps, so we had two different trackers when we were with him. Our first tracker (they look for the animals) was Mr. Mo and he was really good at spotting stuff. Our next tracker was "Kenny the Cat." He was really amazing at spotting big cats.

The first camp we stayed in was called Lebala, which had really nice tents. On our first day there we saw a big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big herd of elephants. We saw babies playing and male elephants pretending to fight. I was amazed watching all of them together in such a huge area.

Hello everyone. Let me start out by describing the tiny airport in the city of Kasane, Botswana.  When we got called to board our flight, we were really surprised that we weren't getting on a normal plane like the ones you enter through a gate and all. Ours was a six-seater prop plane that was no longer than 15 feet! It was really cool to be in such a small plane and even cooler to be able to look down the aisle and see the pilot working all the controls of the plane.

After the 45-minute flight, we landed at an airstrip that was no more than a dirt clearing for the plane to land on. When we got off, we were greeted by Charles, who would be our guide for the next five days. He drove us for about 15 minutes through the African bush to Kwando's Lebala Camp, where we spent our first three nights in Botswana.  

After settling into the camp, we went for our first game drive. One of the first things we saw was a huge herd of elephants. There were easily over one hundred of them. There were some young male elephants in the group that would play fight and it looked like they were having a wrestling match with their trunks. At one point, a big male elephant came right up to our tracker, Mr. Mo, who sits in a small chair off the hood of the jeep, and tried to intimidate him by swinging his trunk around. Mr. Mo knew it was all a big show and didn't budge. Eventually, the elephant left us alone.

Hi everybody. We're on safari now at Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve. Shortly after we arrived, we went on our first game drive out of many and were very lucky because the first thing we saw was a leopard. We stayed and followed it around for about an hour. Spotting the leopard was so cool, especially seeing how well it was able to camouflage itself.  All it had to do was crouch down in the grass and you couldn't see it, which helps it hunt.

Hi everyone out there on the Internet. We are in the bush of South Africa and having a great time. The first animal we saw was an elephant as we were driving into the lodge of Sabi Sabi. Then, there were monkeys that live in the trees right at the lodge.  

When we went on our first game drive, we got lucky and saw a leopard. I was so excited that I thought I was in a dream. Afterward, we saw a giraffe, some water buffalo, and zebra. Very cool! We saw three of the "Big 5" that day and we also spotted a honey badger, which is really rare. Our guide hadn't seen one in two years and I got to see one my first day.

The second day we saw a lion, but not just one lion, a whole pride! There were five females and a whole bunch of cubs with them. They were really cute when they wrestled. After that, we had seen four of the "Big 5" African animals. We just needed to see a rhino to finish it off.