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  1. The Serengeti National Park

    Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 12 February 2010

    After our drive through the Ngorongoro Crater, which took the better half of the day to fully explore, our convoy of Land Cruisers headed west to the Serengeti. It didn’t take long for the landscape to change from volcanic mountain to small rolling hills, to endless plains of savannah, so we were very shortly on [...]

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  2. The Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

    Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 10 February 2010

    Just about every overland trip features “optional excursions:” activities that aren’t included in your up front payment, and which you can choose to do or nor to do depending on your budget and desires. Several aren’t really optional because the whole point of coming through Africa is to have uniquely African experiences, and I‘m not [...]

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  3. Arusha/ Rwandan genocide trial

    Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 8 February 2010

    The first destination on the trip was the town of Arusha in Tanzania. Nestled at the base of Mt. Meru, Arusha is very much the gateway to the safari and game viewing circuit between the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti. It also, incredibly, is playing host to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which is [...]

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