Stanford Milinga: Welcome to Tanzania. This is the land of Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar. The Tanzania is the union of two countries, Zansba and Tanganyika before, but in1964 country has joined together and to get to one country now we call Tanzania. Then in all Tanzanias, we have about 120 different tribes which all these peoples, the good things they can be able to communicate and speak one language which is—but although we have different tribes, we don’t have a conflict of tribes, I don’t know maybe because we are many, so you cannot compete with your fellows. Everywhere you go you cannot—
Host: This is Stanford Melinga, Professional Safari Guide, who’s been in the business of tourism for about 10 years.
Stanford Milinga: We have about 39 million people in all countries, and then the people here are not depending on industry like the other countries are. Here most of the people about 80% they’re depending on our farmers. And then our economy is basing most on a tourism sectors which we get a lot of tourist visiting the country and then also increasing up our economy, that’s the short of the Tanzania story.
Host: Arusha National Park which is rivalry close to Kilimanjaro Airport and the city of Arusha, the safari capital of Tanzania is the first stop in this series. One of the smaller parks in the system, it’s an excellent place to begin any safari adventure.
Stanford Milinga: Now, we are going to Arusha National Park and then we expected there to find this very special thing, the Colobus Monkeys which we don’t have in many other park in Arusha, so it’s very unique to Arusha National Park and if we get lucky to come across to this, we can have a wonderful pictures of these Colobus Monkeys.
Host: On this particular day, Mount Kilimanjaro was up, a rare treat were told and according to our guide, good omen for the entire visit in Stanford’s country.
Stanford Milinga: Yeah I see the giraffe on my right side is just enjoying the morning sun, yielding his tallness. Oh! One, two, three, there’s a couple of family of giraffes here, about seven or eight of them, just beginning of the gate. And the others are just lying down. Giraffes are like very unique animals but and most of the people also think that giraffe is a mute animals but really it’s not. Zebras crossing in front of us, they have got a very nice vocal sounds which somehow looks like a barking but its coming from inside of the neck, so once its getting outside it could be somehow difficult to hear it. So, when you get lucky you can hear them making those sounds but most of the people never hear that sounds and then thinking them so that the giraffes are mute, but real giraffes are vocal animals. Like them, they are very shining, tallest. I think this is to avoid their competitions sometimes to feed on the grasses. How many animals are feeding on the grasses down the grounds but the giraffes decided himself that I have to prolong my neck up and then I got to eat the apple leaves, so by doing that, you can avoid competitions. Maybe competing with the monkeys which they are very small compared to the giraffes, so the amount of them food monkey they eat are not equal to the giraffe’s eating. And another competitor for the giraffe could be an elephant because elephant sometimes you find that is difficult to get the apple leaves just decided to pull down the trees and then to get those leaves. That’s why in ‘Lewedge’ that’s what we call giraffe twigger, twigger.
Female: And the young twigger?
Stanford Milinga: All are twigger, it could be toto twigger, so in toto in Sweledge is young.
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