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Some of the trucks motored off but we stayed a few minutes Elephants, rinos, hippos cooling in muddy pools, gazelles
longer. Suddenly the leopard got up, ambled over to a tree of every sort, hyenas, jackals, massive herds of wildebeests
and, stretching up, scratched the bark like it was the arm of migrating across endless emerald veldt, thousands of tubby
a sofa. Then, with supernatural grace, he jumped up into the zebras, warthogs, water buffalo, baboons. Eagles, ostriches,
branches and disappeared behind the trunk. flamingos, storks; too many other birds to keep track. And
giraffes -- their massive grace delighting us every time.
It was the first day of our week-long Tanzanian safari. Just the
two of us and Baraka Ng’wavi, our guide and mentor. Seven But the cats are the safari stars. They attract Land Cruisers like
nights, three national game reserves, one dark-green Land bees to honey. They’re beautiful; they’re deadly. Baraka’s first
Cruiser and countless hours stalking the iconic wildlife of East safari rule: “You never get out of the truck. Wild animals are
Africa. wild animals.”

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