Arusha National Park

By Charlie: Yesterday we went to Arusha National Park. It took us 45 minutes to get to the park. The first thing we saw were giraffes. Near the end of our trip Doug told us that when giraffes fight they bang their heads onto the other giraffe's side. We got to see them doing that. That was one of the last things that we saw that was really interesting. We saw a rare monkey called the colobus monkey. It is very furry. The fur is black and white. We also saw some vervet monkeys. The next thing we saw were buffalo. After that we ran into some people whose car was stuck. We had to push them down the hill thinking that would get their motor running. But it didn't. Finally, Lucas (our driver) cleaned the wires which made it start. We also saw some trumpeter horn bills, also called silver-backed horn bills. We even saw at least 52 baboons. The males started fighting in the trees. It was very impressive. The babies hung on their mother's back while their mothers walked miles and miles and miles to their destination. We also saw zebras. I can't say how many of them there were, but there were at least 40. We also saw a bee eater in the marsh. It had a yellow breast and blue head and green wings. The other bee eater was called a cinnamon breasted bee eater. We saw a water buck with long horns and warthogs with tusks maybe as big as your hand. We saw one Kirk's dikdik and 2 hippos. We saw some other birds but I didn't know the names of them. And that was the end of our day.