Our first day on animal safari did not disappoint! After seeing the crater from the rim, we were so excited to go down into this massive crater and see all of the animals! The Ngorongoro Crater was formed when the top of the mountain collapsed and created a volcanic caldera. There are lots of animals […]
Read more "Tanzania – Ngorongoro Crater"The last tribe we visited was the Maasai tribe. The Maasai are cattle farmers and measure their wealth by how many head of cattle and how many children they have. This is one of the larger tribes in East Africa – they are mostly in Tanzania and Kenya. Since we missed out on the Maasai […]
Read more "Tanzania – The Maasai Tribe"In my last post, I said that our plan for this day was to visit the Hadzabe tribe and then drive to Ngorongoro Crater, where we would attend a Maasai market. We left the Hadzabe and began our journey to Ngorongoro Crater. As you may remember from the last post, it had been raining all […]
Read more "Tanzania – Rain Delays and Baboons"This was the day where nothing really went as planned, but it ended up being one of our favorite days of the entire trip! It started with an absolute torrent of rain at 4am that woke everyone up. It literally sounded like someone was pouring buckets of rain on our cabin!! Since we had been […]
Read more "Tanzania – The Hadzabe Tribe"The first three days of our trip were a cultural safari in which we visited three different tribes. The first tribe was the Datoga, who are farmers and herders. In this particular village, the men worked as blacksmiths, and the women tended the herd, so it was really incredible to see the two vastly different […]
Read more "Tanzania – The Datoga Tribe"We arrived at the Kilimanjaro Airport in Tanzania on a gigantic plane that seemed to take up the entire runway! We deplaned onto the tarmac and walked into the airport. This is what our plane looked like – We had a 45 minute drive ahead of us to where we were staying for the next […]
Read more "Tanzania – Arusha Coffee Lodge"This year, Mike and I decided to do a Christmas lights boat cruise in Newport Beach. We usually hit up Candy Cane Lane in Torrance, but we thought that seeing lights from a boat would be fun! It didn’t disappoint! It was so neat seeing all of the houses decorated with lights on the ocean, […]
Read more "Newport Beach Christmas Lights"This post can be summed up in two words: BABY. BURRO. Let me set the scene for you. Mike and I are in a beautiful national park surrounded by snowcapped mountains, salt flats, and canyons. We drive up to a ghost town, Rhyolite, which is just outside the park border in Nevada. We were told […]
Read more "Death Valley Part Two"Mike and I were super excited for our first photo adventure trip! Death Valley is a place we’ve been wanting to go since we moved here and we figured this would be the way to see it! We had such a wonderful time taking pictures and seeing Death Valley’s beauty! The funny thing was all […]
Read more "Death Valley Part One"Mike and I were really excited about this Night Hawks trip because we missed it last year! San Pedro is such a neat area and I knew we would get some good pictures! We started the night at the dancing water fountains and snapped pictures of the water show that’s set to music. Then, we […]
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