Just got back from a two day safari in Lake Manyara National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater. The nature was absolutely mindblowing. Highlight was probably the vultures and marabou storks chowing down on a newly dead water buffalo. We stayed at this campsite and there were zebras and hyenas literally right outside our tents and the last night there the biggest elephant in the entire world walked right through dinner to drink water out of the storage tank. Our guide spiro was a masai who insisted on being called jack sparrow. It was pretty frustrating to sit in a huge land cruiser and be escorted around to see nature, and see a billion other land rovers doing the same thing. Somehow it seems like nature should be able to just be and not have a bunch of fat white smokers messing it up all the time. And that $1000 a night hotels have free reign, yet the masai are allowed only very limited use of the land to make their livelihood.
In Arusha we got to go the the UN Tribunal for the Rwandan genocides and got to meet lots of big cheezes. Very insane that the UN built the fanciest building and employs over 800 international emplyees, yet has only had 60 trials in 10 years. But I still like international governance, what can I say.