16/09/11

Today I was back on animal care (more cleaning up the poo!) although it was made a lot trickier today by the huge troop of baboons loitering in the garden. Not that I'm complaining but they do make life a little tricky. One woman walked outside with a piece of watermelon in her hand and got charged at by a female. It's best to just leave them to it and come back to whatever you were doing later. It's mating season for them right now so the females have really huge pink bums and the males have their woo-woos out all the time. Did get some more nice pictures though:

Without a doubt my favourite holiday snap!



We had a blow-darting competition this afternoon. Using the blow pipe you have to aim for a target of a monkey. Sadly none of my darts stayed in but it wasn't for lack of trying! I had a go with the rifle and that was no better!



And finally this evening we went to a small village where one of the part time staff members lives. It's only a ten minute drive away but it's so completely different to the 5* hotels on the road around here. He showed us around, took us to see the village witch-doctor who was curing a woman of tummy ache. Then we watched their tribal dances and they did an acrobatic display that would've won Britain's Got Talent hands down! I have it all on film, I'll upload them when I'm home. I did get some pictures aswell though:

I tried some of the stuff he was making her eat, fairly sure it was ground up roots.

What a mzungu!

Happy campers!



So, that was a very good day! Tomorrow myself and Maddie (girl on the far left above) are off on Safari! Can't wait! We're getting collected at 5am because the park is 3 hours away but should be worth it for the amound of wildlife there. I'll let you know how it goes!