Africa 2022 - Orphan Elephants and Arusha National Park
In 2020 we planned a trip to Africa to celebrate our 25 th wedding anniversary. Covid caused a 2-year delay, so we were very excited to finally started our African adventure on Tuesday 6 th of September. The journey includes 2 weeks in Tanzania on safari, 10 days in Ethiopia with local tribes, a week in Zanzibar relaxing and 4 days in England with family, will be quite a trip! We didn’t arrive in Nairobi, Kenya until midnight on Thursday 8 th . What should have been 2 days of travel took 3 due to a ticketing snafu with American Airlines that wasn’t identified until we tried to board the Qatar flight in Washington DC. Not an experience I want to repeat, but it worked out with only losing a rest day in Nairobi so could have been worse. Qatar airlines is incredible, and the lounge in Doha is magnificent – a good thing since we had 12 hours there. Well worth using the miles for the business class. Friday, we visited the Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage to join the midday feeding of the 3...