Saturday 6/13

Today was the most amazing day ever! We got up at 5:30 to have breakfast by 6 am and leave by 6:30, but there was a girl who was sick and they wanted to leave a van behind so that if she felt better she and the professor staying with her could join us, so they had to rearrange everyone else to fit in the other six vans and we didn't end up leaving until 7. We drove to the Ngorangora Conservation Area which is 8,300 sq kilometers in area (265 sq kilometer of which is the Ngorangora crater where we saw all the animals, and the crater is 600 m deep). First we saw some cute baboons:

In the conservation are we visited the Olduvae gorge first and the archaeological site where Lucy was discovered (Google Lucy remains discovered by Leakey to read more about her):

Next we went to the shifting sands, which is a huge hill of magnetic volcanic sand that moves across the plain because of the wind and magnetic forces:

Then we went to the crater and this is what we saw:

The elephant walked right up to our jeep and then walked off and the lion weaved in and out between the jeeps before wandering over to the other lions. 

Also there were thousands of flamingoes on the crater lake:

Here are a few more beautiful pictures: