Name: Great Africa Safari in Tanzania | Tarangire National Park
Uploaded: 2025-07-17T09:37:18.000Z
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We're going on safari, and it's just us three.

Right now I am in Arusha in Tanzania, and I'm extremely excited because in this series we will be taking you from here in Arusha to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, the roof of Africa, the tallest freestanding mountain in the world.

But before we dive into the climb, I wanted to take a little bit of time to kind of just familiarize both ourselves and yourself with Tanzania.

Right now we are about to pile into this 4x4 vehicle, and we're going to go on a safari in Tangariri.

What's the name of that national park, Tangariri?

We're going to hop into this car, and we're going to do a safari today in Tarangiri National Park.

It's one of the main national parks here in Tanzania, and it's going to be a super fun day.

There might be rain on the way, but it doesn't matter because this thing will drive through anything.

We've stopped in downtown Arusha to grab some packed lunches for the safari, but behind me is a clock tower that's relatively important.

It's actually the middle point between Cape Town and Cairo.

Not only is it a clock tower where you can find out what time it is, you also can find exactly where you are on the continent of Africa right in the middle between Cape Town and Cairo.

We're taking about a two-hour drive from Arusha to Tarangiri National Park, and we've just pulled over on the side of the road.

You've probably heard of the Maasai before.

They're one of over 123 different ethnic groups here in Tanzania.

I think that the Maasai are probably some of the most famous African tribes.

I think when people think of tribes from Africa, the image of the Maasai comes to mind.

This man is wearing a traditional headdress, which has ostrich feathers.

They're pastoralists, primarily with cattle and goats.

That means that they're nomadic, traditionally semi-nomadic now, where they're essentially taking their cattle and their herds from water from place to place to place.

We're about to go on safari, and I'm just extremely excited to be back in Africa.

It's one of my all-time favorite trees, after the redwood, of course, but this is Africa's coolest tree.

It's often called the upside-down tree because it looks like the roots are the branches, but this is one of Africa's most iconic trees.

This is a baobab fruit, and you can make juice out of it, or you can just eat the way it is.

And when it's dried, it actually kind of tastes like dehydrated ice cream.

It has the same texture, but like a sherbet flavor.

It's packed with all sorts of nutrition, and it's a favorite food of the elephants as well.

So when you go on safari, one of the first things you'll notice when you spot zebras is a lot of the time they're with wildebeest.

Essentially, they've evolved together to provide better security against predators.

Zebra have some of the best eyesight in this part of the animal kingdom, and the wildebeest have a better sense of smell.

But by coming together and essentially providing a better security network for each other, they're able to survive with a higher chance.

It's really interesting how the animal kingdom kind of evolves in this way where different species can provide something for another species.

Music This has to be one of the most quintessential bucket list activities in the world, in my opinion.

Going on safari in East Africa here in Tanzania, and being surrounded by the incredible diversity of wildlife.

We're surrounded by a group of banded mongoose and probably about 20 or 30 giraffes, which are the national animal of Tanzania.

The giraffe actually shares the same amount of vertebrae as a human being.

It's just that their spinal column is way longer than ours.

A really interesting way that their heart works with valves, essentially when they are standing up, they have a big heart that pumps the blood all the way up to their brain, but when they go down to drink water, they have to lower their head, and their heart has a special valve which cuts off blood flow so that they don't essentially black out from bending over.

It's been so long since I've been to Africa, and I just feel so much gratitude.

Huge thanks to Kili Warriors for getting us on a safari.

Definitely making the most of our time here.

It's lunchtime, so we've come to one of the few places where you're actually allowed to get out of the vehicle.

It has an umbrella, although it's missing a pretty crucial part.

Anyways, it's time, and we're going to find out what's for lunch.

I think I've identified biscuits, for sure.

Maybe starting with the meat is probably a good idea.

We have stumbled upon a herd of elephants, and there's a big bull just down there.

Some of the most majestic creatures on this planet.

If they've passed through a place 20-30 years before, they can remember.

Back in the day, elephant herds would migrate all the way from South Africa up to Sudan, Southern Sudan, just to put into perspective the amount of territory that they can cover.

We see a whole family out there in this dry riverbed, and they can actually use their tusks and their trunk to find water buried below the surface.

They actually have six sets of molars, and that's to chew through some of the really tough foliage that they eat.

They can also live up to around 70 years old.