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Arusha Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Arusha, Tanzania
Arusha
... does still take place in some areas. The next morning we packed our tents for the last time, had breakfast and headed into Arusha where we dropped off members of our group. Dave and Brad were dropped at a hotel where they were meeting others who were ...
An Amazing 4 days!
... up having a brilliant time in a national park that is full of wildlife. The four days started with a drive from Moshe town to Arusha national park. Once we arrived at the national parks first gate we got out payed and headed down to the second gate and ...
I got through!
... , I was suppose to use cabbage! :( It was an interesting coleslaw! From Snake park, the following morning we headed to Tanzania, crossing the border into the Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater. And as you know this is just the begining ...
First Day of Placement
We went to our placements today. i got switched from my original placement because they had a lot of vounteers from another organization. So four of us went to a place called TAMIHA today. The organization is ...
Stone Town to Arusha
... boarded the 11 seater plane, and not only was it really bumpy, the "45 minute flight" ended up taking 85 minutes to get to Arusha. On arrival in Arusha, Jenny collapsed as she exited the plane and this was the start of a 48 hour nightmare stint ...
Reptile Mania
Placement was disorganized today because Crispin is out of town until Thursday and nobody really knew what wa going on. So me and another volunteer, Max, tried to teach a little English and planted some seeds in the garden. ...
Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha
... ;cubs, zebra and wildebeest, ostrich, then lucky to spot yet another cheetah. In the afternoon we returned to the campsite in Arusha, and in the evening had a fancy dress dinner. As you can see in the photo, the colourful Masai blankets ...
Laundry Day
We were supposed to take 3 kids to the clinic today, 2 to get HIV tested and one to get a CD4 count. 2 of the kids couldn't come because someone the mother knew passed away so they were busy. So me and 2 girls ...
Teacher Teacher!
... school is technically a private school but nothing like a private school in the UK. It's ranked number 13 in the whole of Tanzania which is really scary when you see the teaching standard. They have almost no resources - the kids spend half of each ...
pictures from safari
I'm back at Uhuru and have internet connection again so I'll download the pictures of safari. I'm sitting next to a couple from Sweden who are also in TZ doing mission work/projects - small ...
Warriors From The East. Rastafari!
... again and as he was leaving ran into Adam, who was going to interview a local band. The kicker? They are a super awesome, Tanzania Music Award-winning reggae band, and he was going to their recording studio. Sweet. I'm down to tag along for some sick ...
Land of improvising
... is helping him take a month long driving class so that he may be able to pick up so work driving taxis. The school is in Arusha and he was stressing because he has no money to get there on the daladala. He has nothing. I told him I would give ...
Well, this world is truly bittersweet
... warriors do kill lions which is pretty crazy as well). Anyways, overall this homestay was incredible, one of my favorite experiences in Tanzania. It became a culmination of all I have learned since I have been here. I felt so comfortable and so at home in ...
Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti National Park
... for three hours. After lunch, we left Arusha and drove for about three hours as we began our journey towards the coast of Tanzania. We had hoped to have a great view of Mt. Kilimanjaro as we left Arusha, but unfortunately the day was quite cloudy and if ...
Holiday begins! Elephants and Giraffes galore!!!
What an complete dream the last couple of days have been! We finally got to Arusha to look into Safaris and again things came together perfectly. Just as we were being harassed aggressively by all the street vendors to sell us merchandise and safari ...
Meeting up with the Masai
... , and unfortunately the court decided to go into closed session, so we were prematurely kicked out. The same day, we made our final preparations for our 3-day safari through the north of Tanzania that promised to be full of adventure and ...
letzer Hoehepunkt erwartet uns
... bis an die Haenge des Kilimanjaro hingen wir einen ereignislosen Tag lang dort herum. Heute morgen ging es dann nach Arusha, dem Haupt-Safarizentrum der Region. Gleich geht es weiter in Richtung Ngorongoro-Krater, einem der angeblich tierreichsten Park ...
Let' the Overland Begin
... sleep or talk and all of us protecting as best we could ourselves from the dust. At the Border we exited Kenya and entered Tanzania through the border controls. Our visa was US $50 each. We changed some Kenyan money to Tanzanian shillings and we were off ...
Potentially Polygamous
... news is that there is a program that is very successful educating women about family planning and providing birth control in Northern Tanzania. Many of the projects that are done to "help" people are ill thought out, with the recipients not ...
MONKEYS!
You have asked, you have begged, you have cajoled and cried and wept and whined. And now, without further ado, the MONKEYS who live at my house! For those of you who like this sort of thing, they are Blue Vervet Monkeys, and there's quite a ...
Arusha... What a town.
... One thing to mention is the fact that various songs from the Lion King were constantly in my head during my stay in Tanzania. "Rafiki" means friend, and you are called this by anyone trying to sell you something. Also the name of the fun ...
Animal Safari
Tue Aug 30 Lake Manyara Game Watching pix: http://c-4-c.com/80days/Tanzania-MEDIA/08-30-05_Day6 I am alive & well. Saw lions & giraffes & elephants etc all day today - very wonderful safari. I camp in a tent tonight & then head to the bush where ...
The second highest point in Tanzania
... next to the flag. Visibility must of been 15 meteres max but it didn't matter. We had achieved our fist goal in Tanzania, we were now on the second highest point in the country and had gained some valuable experience and acclimatisation ready for the ...
Home Stretch
... for two weeks. Next weekend we are heading off to do some cave exploring and see some very famous cave paintings just outside of Arusha, and then we are doing a waterfall trek just below Mt. Meru. That will take us to Tuesday, and then on Wednesday we ...
Overlanders Again & Snakes
We pulled into a camp site called Snake Park and intended to see if we could couple up with a Safari group to reduce our entrance fees into the Serengeti. To keep a long story short we have decided to hang around a few days to do domestics and then ...
Tanzania on Safari
... plane...or the individual dandruff flakes on his blue shirt. We survived. Zanzibar was beautiful. Tanzania gets two rainy seasons every year so things stay much more lush than I'm used to in Senegal. Banana trees ...
Holy Lot of Giraffes, batman!
... the rangers' station. Apparently there is some elaborate new system by which tour operators purchase an electronic debit card in Arusha town, and there are signs up everywhere saying that the park entry fees cannot be paid by cash or check. ...
Also I went to Church
... , and she was a riveting speaker. The only problem was the PA system. As I have found typical not only in Tanzania but in Kazakhstan as well, the system was cranked up to the loudest possible level, so that after two hours of singing and then ...