Snake Park Arusha - Sunday 24th Jan

Snake Park as the name suggests contains a large display of snakes and is run by BJ and Ma who set up the camp ground as well as establishing the only snake bite clinic in Tanzania to treat snake bite victims. They also have a large mechanical workshop so Jan took Steph for a check whilst we headed off to local Massai village walk by a local guide called Ollie

We had a look through the local museum showcasing the life styles of the Massai then off for a couple of kilometre walk to a Massai village where we were greeted by some young kids who adopted us as we visited the various huts in the village. On the way came past the many agave they grow to/ use in their local brewed beers. Ollie was married with 2 kids and his father had 4 wife's with his mother being blessed with 8 and his Dad a total of 50 kids !!

We then entered the local Massai village and visited the cooking and sleeping houses with our adopted kids showing us the way. The one that hopped up on Joeys knee was fascinated with her iPhone and seemed very competent on swiping through her photos. 

Headed off back to snake park with Ollie showcasing how the local Massai guys walk with their stick. His shoes are made out of old tyres, which is a very sensible shoe in the terrain they walk in.

When we got back Ollie had arranged for the  local Massai guys to perform their dance for us again.  With me proving white men might not be able to dance but we can jump.

Post lunch we ventured went next door to see if we could get a SIM card however this proved to be difficult so went over the road to a local wood carving place to look around at the hundreds of local cravings for the next hour then returned for a cooling beer as it was very warm.We were then informed that the snake feeding was about to start so quickly finished our beers and watched the various snakes( pythons, cobra ) enjoy their weekly feed of baby chickens 

These two were fighting over one chicken

Heard some thunder in the background so left Jo to watch the feeding and hurry back to camp to gather out washing and close up the tent. It then proceeded to piss down for the next hour whilst some Overland  tours arrived

Poor buggers didn't know what hit them when they arrived to a mini camp ground flood .Had to take evasive action after the rain and retreat to the bar to recharge all our devices and allow me to catch up writing the blog from the last couple of days.

Each park has a group of Massai men who stand guard 24 hours per day.. These guys had bow and arrows as well

The driver from the overland crew new Jan so we joined them at dinner time and there were a couple of girls from Logan on the bus.  

After quite a few drinks they went off to the bar to play a drinking game so we joined them a bit later