Mt. Meru under cloudcover.

I cannot tell you how happy we were that they had a bathroom station. It was actually one of the cleanest bathrooms we came across.

A Colobus Monkey was in the tree right outside the bathroom.

Beautiful!

Mkindu Points is named after the Wild Date Palms that grow precariously on the crater wall. At this point, crater stretches 3km across. The bottom of the crater is an altitude of 1474m and is an ideal place for buffaloes with good grazing permanent water and convenient mud wallows. Because of the damp, mist atmosphere here, ferns, orchids and lichens flourish. Mosses and fern have no flowers but are propagated but spores.

The crater floor. We didn't see any water buffalo with our binocular but it's a long way down and there's a LOT of space down there.

Hartlaub's Turaco.

Zebras!

A couple of BIG warthogs under the tree.

Every time we saw something, this was the scene. Everyone jumped up with their cameras and binoculars.

Some waterbucks were hanging out with the zebras.