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Thursday 8.30 in the morning, that was when the driver picked us up for the shaking bus ride to Saadani National Park which made us see a lot of villages and small communities, totally in contrast to Dar Es Salaam. The nature and beach of Saadani were extremely beautiful, swimming in the hot Indian Ocean for the first time and enjoying the time in our sweet lodge. Our safari was pretty adventerous, the day we arrived we left for the safari after lunch and saw a bunch of monkeys, antelopes, birds, a buffalo and a giraffe with her baby (very cute). The next day our plan was to do a boat tour on the Wami river, but unfortunately our jeep got stock in the mud and at first we thought that we would fall into the water next to us, but we managed to get out and our boys were motivated to save the car. It ended with twelve people on one jeep (the other one got rescued by a tractor later) and we could continue to the Wami river, where we saw some hippo families and a crocodile. And this morning we already had to leave. The way back was again pretty shaky, but we rested for a while at a petrol station, where we forgot Mrs Stremmel. We continued our ride for quite a while, when Lea asked where Mrs Stremmel was and everyone was shocked and amused at once. But as a happy end we found her at the station and drove together back to Dar Es Salaam.