What a drive!

What follows is one of my most wonderful and honest real off-road tracks so far! There is no official road. These are just random tracks through steppe and open grassland which you have to find yourself. And if you don't find them, just drive wherever you decide to drive. It's all yours! The whole endless landscape changes many times towards Ngorongoro. In southern Sale plain we get stopped by Olkarien river. This time it is just a dry riverbed but the tracks we were following are ending abruptly at the steep washed-away river edge. No way to drive down into the riverbed as the step is over a metre deep. How did previous cars or supply trucks cross here? Or has there recently been a small flood? Where else might they have crossed this river? No traced to be found. I get out of the car and walk around to assess the situation and the riverbed. Nothing. In order to continue we have to find a suitable ford ourselves! Back in the car we follow our side of the river in direction to where I expect to find lower terrain for flatter access. After a few hundred metres we indeed find a perfect ford for crossing the dry riverbed, yay! And for sure nobody has used it before. There is just not a single trace of other human beings here. Now, again endless grass steppe in front of us, yay!

While having a tea break on top of my roof rack we observer the first wildebeest and zebras herds in higher numbers migrating down in direction of Lake Natron. Also Secretary Birds and Kori Bustards with their fluffy necks!

Near Olduvai Gorge we finally turn onto the "main road". The moment when we want to take a picture of giraffes making love, some annoying and begging Maasai children drive us crazy for the first time on the whole trip. Until now most kids have just been curious and hello-saying but these here have adapted well to us Mzungu tourists. What will be the next on the menu for today?Read more