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Arusha Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Arusha, Tanzania
Kirsty's Birthday
This is a top pick! ... shack is a dimly lit building, with a chipped stone floor and Formica tables, and red plastic seats. Still I was surprised Arusha had such a place - it served very edible but sloppy Mr-Whippy with abundant artificial red strawberry sauce. Could we manage ...
Minor Head Injury
... nice new hospital in Arusha... where they were all out of the vaccine. I an not sure how one of the nicest, newest hospitals in Tanzania runs out of a common vaccine, but somehow it did. So we had to go all the way across town, to another hospital. This ...
Tanzania
... very nice though it was all girls which I did not expect for a camping trip. We drove 10 hours from Nairobi, Kenya to Arusha in Tanzania which was great since I like scenery. The border was easy though Americans have to pay more than others which I did ...
Painting a Picture of Arusha
The only paved roads here are the main roads, of which there are few. There is only one stoplight and people are still unsure how it works, cars have the right of way so you always have to look out. The stoplight is at San Juare, which is what we call ...
A day in town
... as well. Then I went to Via Via with Valerie and Steph so they could use the free wireless internet. I walked down to the Arusha hotel and got Chocochinno's for Valerie and myself, they were pretty good. No Dad there's no McDonald's or Starbucks here but ...
Christmas in March!
The boxes finally arrived! Lisa Adams, a coworker of mine in NYC also sent 2 HUGE boxes. Her daughter and 5 friends collected clothing, shoes, school & art supplies for the kids! They also included postcards of NYC that the kids ...
Adventures in Cooking, Part II: The Coconut Bench
... a knife, unless you want to accidentally stab yourself (Greggers, you especially should never buy a coconut). However, here in Tanzania, they have a simple solution for preparing coconut: you use a coconut bench. This is a little bench that you sit ...
Lions, no tigers and no bears
... follow. Should also be able to get some photos on here at some point in the next 36 hours. Ok, so Tanzania......it's absolutely beautiful. No disappointment here, apart from it being too cloudy to see Kilimanjaro on our way through. ...
Arusha Tanzania
Hi Everyone and thank you for all the emails. Nothing miuch has happened yet but have met a maasai who is going to Brisbane soon to marry an Aussie volunteer. He even wears maasai clothes!!1 Not sure he knows what he is in for. Nothing ...
The Traveller's Return
The Zanzibar people came back late last night so the house was more full today. Melody and I went to the same place that I went yesterday for Tamiha. We tried to work on pronounciation with the girls by practising conversations. Before ...
Day Eleven
Hour long prop plane flight back to Arusha this morning - circled an active volcano crater at close range... Dad, you would have loved it. Shopping (got some masks for the office in the house) overly nice lunch. Day lodge with dinner views of ...
Homesickness and New Experinces
... if you want to treat yourself. One link you can have a look at the lodge for is http://www.africanmeccasafaris.com/tanzania/hotels/arusha/moivarolodgeestate.asp. When we all met up we found a very distraught Emily. Her school was the most basic of all ...
We done it!
... in mud after a bike-ride in a thunder storm. Mistake. Tomorrow hopefully finishing job sorting and going to the Arusha International Conference Centre where the Rwanda tribunal is continuing...jobs permitting. Hope all's well and sorry again for ...
Arriving in the Serengeti
Our bush flight from Kilimanjaro to Seronera turned out to be an unexpected mini-tour of northern Tanzania. The plane itself looked like it had been designed for about 24 average-sized passengers. However, we quickly learned that a few more could be ...
Barack Obama and Rwanda's General Kalimanzira
... as tourists are often approached and encouraged to come to a particular place. My guide book actually describes "Arusha as the worst place in Tanzania for street touts and slick tour operators that prey on the gullibility of new arrivals by offering ...
Our Full Day in Arusha
... they sure are cool. Our afternoon was spent poolside after some of the women visited a tanzanite shop. Nice stuff. Of course Tanzania is known for their tanzanite. We saw beautiful pendants and earrings. Around the pool, we grabbed a quick ...
HIV/AIDS Presentation Part 2
Today four of us went back to the school we visited on Monday and gav the second part of a presentation on HIV/AIDS. In the afternoon we did Batk making. Batiks are pictures done on cloth with watercolors. They use wax to cover parts that are already ...
SAFARI!
... to do some laundry and drink the much needed beers as reward for our tough slogging. But we did need to switch beers. Tanzania produces 2 major brands: Kilimanjaro and Safari. Prior to the climb we were drinking Kili, now we moved on to Safari. Who ...
Hakuna Matata
Sarah and I are currently sitting and waiting at Arusha airport for our flight out to Zanzibar. As standard practice in Africa our flight has been delayed a further 30 mins. We met up at Dar Es Salaam about a week ago and then made our way up to the large ...
Media Ministries...
... ministries (camps, schools, community, church...), recording artists, recording studios - Judith · FPCT - Free Pentacostal Church Tanzania Publishing - Bagita & Vicki · Habari Maalum Media - TV, Radio, Video, Music, Printing, Publishing, ...
Safar(i) so good (geddit?)
... 9 hours later at Dar Es Salaam, where we hopped straight onto a bus bound for the Usumbara mountains, in the western highlands of Tanzania. We arrived at the dusty town of Lushoto, which is nestled at about 1200 meters, and a great base for trekking over ...
Sometimes I really, really hate europeans
... . Why am I enraged? Let me get to the point. I have staked myself out at the 5 star Arusha hotel today. I'm busy writing a 20+ page budget manual for the nonprofit I'm working with. This will include budget ...
Boring 2 weeks !!
Hi Everyone again. Thank you everyone for your emails and comments. This last 2 weeks have flown by and once again I am going to dinner to celebrate one of the volunteers 70th birthday - you are never toooooo old. She is a beautiful lady with special ...
Arusha times two
Ok, so here's the story with Arusha. It's the second largest city in Tanzania, and the location of a special UN tribunal currently trying the principals behind the Rwandan genocide of the mid-90s. A friend of mine from law school happens to be ...
Serengeti
Hi all just a quickie cos short on time again.... Currently in Arusha, Tanzania, having crossed the border a couple of days ago, straight to our Masai campsite for a night then into industrial sized land cruisers for a trip into the Serengeti and ...