DAY 43: We need your help, please!

Hello everyone! We’ve left the cool, lush surroundings of the Ngorongoro Crater and now find ourselves on the escarpment of the Great Rift Valley, overlooking Lake Manyara National Park. Our campsite, Panorama Safari Camp, is very basic, but has a spectacular view over the Lake. The plan is to use most of the day tomorrow to explore the park.

And now we need your help. Last night we reached our data cap for the satellite terminal. We’ve used our sponsored 250 mega bytes of data in the first 42 days and would like to thank Sat4Rent, and Shana in particular, for your support thus far! Without the brilliant satellite equipment we would not be able to post so easily every single evening from wherever we are.

In order to keep the blog up and running we need to buy additional data. As you can imagine, it’s not cheap. Unfortunately this is not something we budgeted for, and therefore we rely on donations to keep www.serengetitrip.com alive. If we keep using data at the rate we have been, we’re going to need approximately R7700 to cover the satellite data costs. We will, however, try our level best to keep this figure as low as possible, but ideally we don’t want to stop posting every single evening.

So, if you’re enjoying our daily posts and don’t want it to end, please make a donation to our satellite data fund. Any small donation will help! Here are the bank details:

Name:  P de V Steyn

Bank:  ABSA

Type:  Savings Account

Branch:  Lynnwood Ridge

Branch code:  333 845

Account number:  16 38 18 95 81

Please use the word “Serengeti” as a reference. If you would be so kind, please make any donations over the course of the next week, so that we can determine exactly how much and how often we can post.

Thank you very much for your interest in our blog and for contributing! It would be a shame if www.serengetitrip.com had to end prematurely. Thanks also to Shana from Sat4Rent for giving us a discount on the additional data.

Baie dankie vir julle ondersteuning! Ons waardeer dis vreeslik baie!! Onthou, elke druppel in die emmer help!

Here are a few photographs of highlights so far, just to remind you of what we have experienced so far:

The two travellers, all fresh in the Makgadigadi Pans (Day 4)

One of the first lions of our trip! (Day 8)

One of the trip highlights - River rafting in the Zambezi River

The stunning scenes next to Lake Manze in Selous

Ji and Villiers on the beach south of Dar Es Salaam

Balloon safari over the Serengeti Plains

Groete uit Tanzanië

Villiers en Ji

Highlight of the day:

Villiers: Watching a little bit of World Cup Cricket

Ji: To get a $300 discount on a present for Talita, all because of my superior negotiation skills of course!

Lowlight of the day:

Villiers: The filthy bathrooms at Simba A this morning

Ji: That we ran out of satellite data