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Safari!, Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania travel blog

Safari!

A travel blog entry by eric

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Jambo!! Hello all from Africa!!  I am still alive in the land of the HOTTTT!  Wilting faster than a NW flower but enjoying it immensely.  A very unique experience.  Incomparable to America. My safari consists of Millinga (my guide), ...

Evolution, Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania travel blog

Evolution

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... Leakeys at Oldupai in 1959.  Another is a photo and cast of the footprints discovered by Mary Leakey at Latoli, Tanzania.  Evolutionists theorize these establish a the link between primates and humans.  And lastly, a display of the famous ...

Close to nature, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania travel blog

Close to nature

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Hello! My most anticipated stop of the safari.  Why?  22 square kilometers of the highest concentration of wildlife.  The Ngorongoro Crater is actually a collapsed volcano.  The nutrient-rich environment has produced animals that ...

Lions & rhinos, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania travel blog

Lions & rhinos

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Hello again. This morning I caught sunrise over Ngorongoro.  It's a beautiful sight seeing clouds billowing in over the 600 meter rim.  Last night we had buffalo in our camp. I was really looking forward to the morning game drive.  It ...

Kendwa, Zanzibar, Kendwa, Tanzania travel blog

Kendwa, Zanzibar

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

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Version traduite plus bas... Sept 18, Kendwa, Zanzibar All the Muslim girls turned to Lance and shouted at once:"No!” in an angry voice... About 20 of them had just ran to the beach, each with some bag and started collecting sand... a sight that ...

Elephants, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania travel blog

Elephants

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"Are you sure?"  Dowdi's favorite line, which I didn't understand. Dowdi cooked some delicious meals on safari.  Traditional African food with a Western twist to accommodate tourists.  He's very cautious about sanitation too:  ...

The Prosper Connection and the Haven of Peace, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania travel blog

The Prosper Connection and the Haven of Peace

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... . He graciously gave me his cell number and offered me hospice with his family (they sounded wealthy) if and when I got to Tanzania. I called about him 6 months later when I was planning my itenerary for this trip. He invited me to his house in Florissant ...

Not so funny for Peggy, Pangani, Tanzania travel blog

Not so funny for Peggy

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

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Version traduite plus bas… Sep 11, Ushongo, Not so funny for Peggy ! "What is the best protection against mosquitoes? -Peggy! Shouts Tristan without hesitation. Seeing our look, he adds: “It is true! The first night here, there were 25 ...

Kilimanjaro 3, by Roman, Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania travel blog

Kilimanjaro 3, by Roman

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Kilimanjaro 3 Day 4: The Longest Day            Future celebrity, this signature will be worth millions… I glance one last time at the triangle formed by our scribbles on the ceiling of our room, ...

Ushongo, near Pangani, Pangani, Tanzania travel blog

Ushongo, near Pangani

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Version française plus bas…. September 7th, Ushongo, near Pangani With the sounds of the waves crashing nearby or the songs of hundreds of small birds hidden in the coconut trees, it is hard to imagine the rat race or the work place in other parts ...

Two Nights in Mbeya, Mbeya, Tanzania travel blog

Two Nights in Mbeya

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... chicken and ugali (nsima, sadza, pup, all the same corn mush) with him and his sister at her home. Internet is cheap in Tanzania, less than a dollar per hour, sometimes 50 cents. I made contact with Prosper, my Dar es Salaam contact, via phone. He said ...

Leopards & cheetah, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania travel blog

Leopards & cheetah

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Hello everybody. Lobo was interesting with all the lions.  Millinga and Dowdi thought the real migration was located further West, however, so we headed to Seronera. On the way, I saw two interesting bucks sitting on a cluster of rocks.  I ...

Arusha, Tanzania, Arusha, Tanzania travel blog

Arusha, Tanzania

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Version française plus bas... Aug 24, Arusha Rotating her corn cobs on a make shift fire, this Tanzanian woman seems to have all the time in the world... she bites slowly into one of the roasted piece and peace seems to inhabit her mind... how much ...

'Scuttlebuckets' and old presumptions, Kigoma, Tanzania travel blog

'Scuttlebuckets' and old presumptions

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... she was salvaged in 1927, converted into a ferry, and has been shuttling the run from Bujumbura (Burundi) to Kigoma (Tanzania) and Mpulungu (Zambia) since. Fractious Burundi has left the Bujumbura leg ‘under suspension’. There is comfort the ...

Baobabs, Boulders, Baboons and Big trucks, Iringa, Tanzania travel blog

Baobabs, Boulders, Baboons and Big trucks

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

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Version traduite plus bas... We stayed at old Farm house, 50kms from Iringa Sept 22, Baobabs, Boulders, Baboons and Big trucks....toward Iringa Days go by but certainly do not resemble each other. If the campsite in Mikumi was not to my liking, the one ...

Arusha National Park, Arusha, Tanzania travel blog

Arusha National Park

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

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Version française plus bas... Aug 26, Arusha National Park Sitting on our small porch, dipping my brioche type bread into the local café au lait and looking at the beautiful green leaves of all these trees that are in front of us, it is a bit easier ...

Zanzibar Island, Nungwi, Tanzania travel blog

Zanzibar Island

A travel blog entry by eric

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... new best friend - Fanta.  Orange, red or purple...they're all good.  Anything cold in a bottle goes down fast here. Tanzania is located along the Indian Ocean.  It has been a major trading route for centuries.  Fishing is a common ...

Dar's northern beaches, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania travel blog

Dar's northern beaches

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Version française plus bas.... Sept 1, Dar Es Salaam, Northern beaches We tried to go to the beach nearby and could not find a public entrance because there are hotels lining it... luckily, after a long conversation, one hotel let us pass trough ...

further down into the wilderness, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania travel blog

further down into the wilderness

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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Yes yes, again early, that is how safari's roll. So a quick breakfast and we are off again to the airstrip near the lake. just tree little buildings and a strip of gravel near the cliff. Soon we see out little Cessna landing on the strip. As we get on ...

Stonetown stings like a bee, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania travel blog

Stonetown stings like a bee

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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... it that much of an attraction. Fifteen minutes of ocean and we land on the Dar es Salaam airport again, where we started our Tanzania and Zanzibar adventure no more than two weeks ago. Those two weeks have costed more than three months in Asia, but then ...

Kilimanjaro 2, by Roman, Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania travel blog

Kilimanjaro 2, by Roman

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Kilimanjaro 2, by Roman 'Blaaaah! At least we brought our own foods too, that bread infection is to kill us!' Still spiting, I attempt to loose the revolting taste in a gulp of juice. Checker’s Choice, multi-fruit mix I read on the carton. Who the ...

Off to Africa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania travel blog

Off to Africa

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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... caffeine. Our next hop is to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. This flight is another three to four hours. Finally we touch ground in Tanzania. O my god, yes we have arrived in Africa. A line of twelve officials sit behind a desk to process our passports and ...

Last days in Ushongo; derniers jours, Pangani, Tanzania travel blog

Last days in Ushongo; derniers jours

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Version traduite plus bas… Sept 13, Last days in Ushongo Walking on the beach at night, with the light of the full moon, I dare not think of the hundreds of crabs running around and I try to believe that they know I am here, just from the ...

Stonetown, Zanzibar, Stone Town, Tanzania travel blog

Stonetown, Zanzibar

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Version traduite partiellement plus bas... Sept 20, Stonetown, Zanzibar Lance and Roman went via a dalla dalla (local bus full of people) to Stonetown and then, it was Peggy and Tristan's turn to visit the "big" city of Zanzibar, while Duncan stayed ...

Kilimanjaro 4, by Roman, Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania travel blog

Kilimanjaro 4, by Roman

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Kilimanjaro 4 'Okay, I think I feel a bit better,' he announces. He head off again, and curiously for a minute, I have the feeling that my brother vomited for the two of us, because my nausea has momentarily vanished. ...

Dar Es Salaam centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania travel blog

Dar Es Salaam centre

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... announces a guy in the middle of Swahili sentences... all we could understand after that were the repeating words “Miss Tanzania”... “Ocean view hotel”... “2011”.... the rest sounded like gibberish to us... anyhow... by ...

More Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania travel blog

More Salaam

A travel blog entry by cpricci

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Prosper reminds me of someone my mom might work with at Deaconess Hospital. He took me out to his back yard - a giant garden on a hill above an gully. He said that it's been in disrepair since his mom died, but it looked beautiful to me. All the ...

Wildebeest Migration, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania travel blog

Wildebeest Migration

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Hello again. Have I mentioned one of the rules of safari is not to leave your tent at night?  Needless to say, everybody uses the water closet before retiring.  This evening we heard a pack of hyaena outside camp.  So I took some ...

Zanzibar!, Zanzibar, Tanzania travel blog

Zanzibar!

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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Yet another day of travels, but not ordinary travels, not our regular 'jump on taxi, get to airport / station, board plane/train, arrive and get taxi to hotel. No not today, today we commence our journey onward to the breathtaking island of Zanzibar. In ...

Wake up under a mosquito net, Makao Village, Tanzania travel blog

Wake up under a mosquito net

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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As the first sunlight hits out mosquito net we awake. There is nothing here but us with our entourage, camping out by a little creek. The area of our camp ground is deep in to Messai territory, so the chances of cats visiting are slim. Maybe a good thing ...

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