Back at the beautiful Manor after our day in the Ngorongoro crater. This place is like La Residence we never want to leave. A great dinner last night with a tomato basil appetizer we all ordered again for breakfast. Wonderful butternut soup and a snapper that was outstanding. This lodge is set in a coffee plantation and the coffee served here is from these beans and as good as coffee gets.

East AFrica is very different from South Africa. The crater itself is a marvellous thing to see. Our drive started very slow we saw a few plains animals but all from the road of course no off roading here. After upclose and personal safaris in South Africa this was not as exciting. However as we moved further into the crater we did get large herds of wildebeast, buffalo, zebra and saw a few hyenas and lots of wonderful birds. The last sighting we were surrounded by about 400 wildebeast with some zebra mixed in - absolutely incredible to see so many animals. Anne will write a far better review.

Tomorrow we are off to Singita Faru Faru where you can go off road so we are looking forward to that experience.

Ken is working on pictures hope he gets some posted tonight.