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Arusha Slideshow
Arusha
Travel Blogs from Arusha, Tanzania
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I cant believe i have been here 2 weeks already! I have now shared a dala with chickens - they were under my seat and i thought they were dead at first which was bad enough but suddenly they started clucking and flapping at my feet, luckily i was with a ...
Having It Masai in the Serengeti - Tanzania
... by the Pete Docherty song. It was behind a large group of clouds, but you could just make out the tip. The roads in Tanzania are not that safe. Mainly because the other drivers seemed to drive at ramming speed. Later we arrived at Arusha Snake Park ...
Valentine's Day - Tanzania
... was great because a class of kids came in and helped us cover and one little guy was so knowledgeable about the history of Tanzania. He just regurgitated everything that was in the book I was covering virtually. I stopped and read a fair bit of it ...
Arusha
Spent the day in and around Arusha today, which is the largest Tanzanian city near the Kenyan border. Went into town, where I briefly managed to get on the internet before it crashed, and changed money into the very cool Tanzanian Shillings!!! Afternoon ...
On foot in Africa
... ;a driver. They are lovely people but they live, like many white people, in the Mzungu bumble that fills pockets of Arusha. The natural segregation between whites and blacks who live here is absolutely fascinating, and always makes me proud to ...
Day 1
Hey everyone! I arrived safely at Kilimanjaro airport last night before being taken to our volunteer house with 5 other volunteers. It was a very slow and bumby ride without seatbelts and really dark so we couldnt really see much - i think that was ...
I'm Alive!
... well. :) I will hopefully be updating the past few days very soon, because I have lots and lots to share! I am currently back in Arusha. Leaving Boma and Fish Eagle was very sad but I am so glad to have had all the experiences that I did. Tomorrow, we ...
Kwaheri S.A., Jambo H.A.!
... the teachers that the girls had to go to another course... You will definitely learn flexibility and patience in Tanzania :o) Miscommunication between GSC staff and training groups, and even between GSC staff members has been a huge frustration ...
I'm wondering where the lions are.....hmm,hm.hm.hm
We have a sleep-in today which was wonderful. There had been heavy rains the previous night so the ground is quite soggy but we head out anyway at about 8:30am to see how far we can get without getting stuck. We came across thousands of Wildebeeste ...
The anticlimatic yet engaging Ngorogoro Crater
Last day of safari! It was anticlimatic yet breathtaking....all day! It is really hard to describe the amount of game. Suffice to say if you only had one day to safari this would be the place to come! I won't give the life list....no point! We ...
Arusha!
... us who are usually taught that strangers are something to fear. A couple other interesting cultural differences - dating in Tanzania literally doesn't exist. I won't even get into how the system works in some of the more rural, ...
17th day in Africa (2nd day of Safari), Saturday
I think I'm starting to love Tanzanian Green Label black tea. That's all we drank on our safari! It's very good with a little bit of sugar and milk. Today, it was especially difficult to get up. We woke up at 6:45am, brushed our teeth and got ready for ...
Snake necklaces, Masai tradition & our 1st village
... we finished our visit. It was just so interesting and everyone was really nice and said hello. It was really cheery, unlike Arusha where we stopped for groceries, but I guess it was because it was a city perhaps. Now we headed to the ...
Return from the wilderness - time for a wash!
Back to Arusha for a rest day looking around town while the truck had some work done to ...
Back from the bush
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 Quick Update: I just got back from the bush-we camped out and spent time with the Maasai. I got to see a goat get slaughtered, danced to Maasai chanting in a boma, didnt take showers and used the bush. going here ...
August 4, 2009: Day 7
... , who we also got groceries for, and both of Upendo’s siblings back off so we could head back to the main town of Arusha. There, we went out to the Mugo’s cousin’s daughter’s family’s house (if that made sense) for dinner. ...
starting with Arusha
... the meals were delicious.The owner is a disciplined man who was hiding from us the truth when we asked him how he had come to Tanzania.. We had a day before the safari,we decided to go a daily tour,and we hired a guide.That day we walked more than 15 ...
Back to School Days
... in all that the secluded paradise of Pangani and the perfect getaway of the island of Zanzibar had to offer, we returned to Arusha with anxious anticipation of the next phase of our journey. We got all settled into our new “home”, including ...
Funny Things
**number 6 is new** I've been meaning to post a small collection of the funny things my host father, Sam, says. See if you can figure out what they mean...we'll start with the easiest and go to the weirdest/funniest: 1. Have a touch on your bag. 2. ...
Arusha National Park
... and met with us. They gave us T-shirts and certificates with our names and the spots we visited in Tanzania . Later, we left the hotel and reached Arusha National Park. Out of the three parks we visited in Tanzania , this was the least visited one. ...
arusha
... a bit of food at a place he knew. we hoped a taxi back to ours even though it was only a few blocks. the city arusha, unless its a big conspirices to keep the taxi drivers in bisness, is not a safe place at night. restrant owners and hostel receptionist ...
Arusha the big city
... are running out of trips to do so yesterday we took the dala dala nearly 2hrs to the nearest city of Arusha one of the major cities in northern tanzania. It wasnt an easy journey as buses out here dont run by any form of bus timetable they only leave ...
First Day at Tarangire National Park
... in Arusha around 9:30 this morning and drove for about 2 hour southwest to Tarangire National Park. It's the second large park in Tanzania and home to about 4,000 elephants. October is the best month to see many of the animals as next month they will ...
Simply pictures of our trip!
I seem to have some ability to upload pics again....from Damascus. These pics are a random selection of our Serengetti trip so there is no chronology...just pics. ...
7 Hr Drive and Day at the African Tulip
... nights, but it was fun.....food was horrible, but as I've said before this is Africa). We spent the evening and next day at the Africa Tulip hotel in Arusha....we like it a lot......then to Kilimanjaro airport for our flight back to ...
Over the Border to Tanzania
... the truck load of people coming on the trip, 24 in total, and headed south towards the border between Kenya and Tanzania. The weather became noticeably hotter, and I subconsciously didn't want to drink much because toilet stops were literally at the ...
Ready for Safari!
... . This city is where alot of the Safari companies are based and where the Safaris start. It's alot cooler up here in Arusha too. This part of Tanzania is mountainous. We are at a higher altitude so its alot cooler than Dar. We spent the day on a bus ...
London to Moivaro
... British Museum and Camden Market. Caught an Ethiopian Airlines flight at 9:30 pm or so to Kilimanjaro International Airport in Tanzania. We flew via Addis Ababa and Nairobi. We arrived into Tanzania about 2pm and were met by Felix our ...