Tanzania Travel Blogs

... go through it. On the lighter side, one of the things Mtwara is known for is wood carvings. Some of the best in Tanzania. So I loaded up with animal carvings in remembrance of my safari. Sarah had a bunch for her Peace Corps friends. On the flight ...

A travel blog entry from Mtwara by eric
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Hello. 6am I'm awake to see the sunrise. And I'm the last one up. Today's a long ride to the Serengeti National Park. It's amazing how vast the plains are. Along the road we saw three giraffe. Millinga stopped so I could get some pictures. My ...

A travel blog entry from Oldupai Gorge by eric
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Dar es Salaam by cpricci
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Mbeya by cpricci
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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 was fun ...

A travel blog entry from Ngorongoro Crater by eric
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... seem like a step back in time - like a few centuries. In Dar es Salaam, the most progressive and Westernized city in Tanzania, the government is trying to educate its people that AIDS can be prevented because it has a medical basis. Well, enough of Dar ...

A travel blog entry from Dar es Salaam by eric
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Hello everybody. Our first night in the Serengeti we pitched camp at Lobo. It's within sight of the Kenyan border. It's about 100 yards from the migration corridor. In the distance we could see herds of African buffalo running by. Nobody else ...

A travel blog entry from Serengeti by eric
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Hello finally, I'm enjoying this trip immensely, mostly because I'm going to four places and getting a variety of experiences. I have to admit, it's taken quite an adjustment to live in the 3rd world. Shift, shift and shift some more. Last night I ...

A travel blog entry from Dar es Salaam 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), Dowdy (my cook) ...

A travel blog entry from Lake Manyara by eric
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Dar es Salaam by cpricci
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... My 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 vocation. Some ...

A travel blog entry from Nungwi by eric
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Rain overnight and I don't think my flyless tent cut the mustard. At one point with strong gusts of wind outside I had water droplets landing on me. A very steep road down into the crater - this place is so green compared to the Serengeti. Buffalo, ...

A travel blog entry from Ngorongoro Crater by jonclark2000
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Into the Minja Hotel and I was accosted by touts on the street in the 5 yards from my taxi to the entrance. I thought that was bad, but after I'd dived into the shower there were a bunch of them waiting outside the shower for when I exited and thought ...

A travel blog entry from Arusha by jonclark2000
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... more people greeting by kissing each cheek. He also said that the Chagga are the "most educated" of the 100+ tribes in Tanzania and that they're smart business people. The Mount Kilimanjaro remained hidden in the clouds the whole time I was there. That ...

A travel blog entry from Moshi by cpricci
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I found out where all the chicken shit came from. About 5am there was a cockerel cock-a-doodle-doing in the corridor right outside my room! Tea, chapatti and Karimata (a donut type thing) for breakfast at another dive joint in the morning before ...

A travel blog entry from Usambara by jonclark2000
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... . A few slums on the way into Dar but on the whole it looked very vibrant and more affluent than else where in Tanzania. I found a population of 3 million hard to believe, from what I could see it looked more like a big town. Eventually the Indian ...

A travel blog entry from Dar es Salaam by jonclark2000
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A few years ago whilst I was leading a group of young schoolgirls on a safari in Tanzania, we stopped to have lunch beside a lake in Ngorogoro National Park. The kids were all from Sydney, but one of them, Linh, had grown up for some time in Vietnam. We ...

A travel blog entry from Bangkok, Ngorogoro Crater and South Thailand by paul
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Woke up to rain - we had certainly seen our fair share of rain on this trip! Poor Freidel didn't like the rain at all and she was having a tough time of things. Freidel and Markus were nice people but on the way down after hearing ya, ya, ya and the same ...

A travel blog entry from Kilimanjaro by jonclark2000
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... and thought, "Jan was right, I'm surfacing". Back on the truck again, we left Malawi and headed across the border into Tanzania. The roads were a bit better and I was no longer being jounced around and was starting to enjoy the view, we were travelling ...

A travel blog entry from Stone Town, Zanzibar by jmo
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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 told ...

A travel blog entry from Serengeti by eric
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... . The locals must have been happy that the rains seemed to be finally returning. The short rains last year had not arrived in Tanzania and I think these were the first real rains for 9 months or so. Coming into town all the locals kids were chanting ...

A travel blog entry from Lukuzi by jonclark2000
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Plenty of snow coming down the mountain side from the summit of Kili to just above our campsite this morning. The mist soon came down as we started to ascent into the alpine zone making for a moonscape like morning. We had some drizzle before lunch ...

A travel blog entry from Kilimanjaro by jonclark2000
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Off to the Serengeti this morning, very excited as it's a place I've always wanted to go. We passed through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area on the way where we got fantastic views over into the crater. It is 200sq miles all together and when we looked ...

A travel blog entry from Serengeti by jonclark2000
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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 sleeping pills. And ...

A travel blog entry from Serengeti by eric
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Up way too early nursing a bit of a headache and back in the minibus down to Stonetown. The driver was using 2 exposed wired that he would pinch together and sound his car alarm as a horn! I presumed the normal horn was broken, but half way into the ...

A travel blog entry from Dar es Salaam by jonclark2000
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... have HIV! The guy next to me was a politician but hardly spoke any English. English is usually the third language in Tanzania after a local language and Swahili. I really wish I'd been able to communicate with him and some of the other locals more. ...

A travel blog entry from Mtwara by jonclark2000
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... two tone strawberry Alpenleibe for the next few days.... We wandered around (and got lost) trying to find the Dalla-Dalla (Tanzania's Matatus) stand at the market, fortunately we kept asking for 'market' and eventually found it. The dalla-dalla on the ...

A travel blog entry from Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania via Zanzibar to Nairobi by grahamandrach
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... road out of Arusha and green as we traveled back passed the coffee plantations and fields of plantains. I was surprised how green Tanzania was, although not like Uganda, I had expected most areas just to look like the pictures I'd seen beforehand of the ...

A travel blog entry from Lushoto by jonclark2000
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... a National Geographic documentary and we are so excited to be here.   Arusha is a largish town in northern Tanzania where many tourists kick off their safaris or Kilimanjaro hikes.  It is also the Tanzanian headquarters of MondoChallenge, the ...

A travel blog entry from Arusha by jambo
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... dark concrete building. It contains two PCs, a desk and a couple of chairs, and is decorated with maps of Tanzania and fading photos of previous volunteers. Today is a public holiday celebrating Worker's Day. A cynic may suggest that the ...

A travel blog entry from Pangani by jambo
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