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Arusha Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Arusha, Tanzania
Karibu means Welcome
... is almost all gone, and tonight I'll sleep in my own (new) bed and tomorrow I will wake up to monkeys! I welcome your emails- if you desire to send real mail: Annelies Lottmann AICC-ICTR P.O. Box 6016 Arusha, Tanzania (Tanzania has no zip ...
Home Visits with Tamiha
Today me and 3 other volunteers Ben, Tim, and Melody went on home visits with Tamiha. One the way i got bitten by an ant that had crawled up my pant leg! They have large Texas sized ants here that ...
Safari, Safari, Safari
... George W. had in his reasoning for going to war. The next morning I awoke and met my Safari partners. Mr. Giraffe, from Arusha, was the uncle of the tour operator and a fine gentlemen. Stephen, from France, who was so incredibly French that it was ...
Safari Hunting
... was not too keen on us going with Godfrey. After some discussion we went with Godfrey, went to his office in the Arusha International Conference Centre (where many of the Rwanda Genocide War trials happened) , and basically decided it was between Godfrey ...
Another long boring day on the truck
... a partial view of Mt Kilimanjaro - the top was shrouded in cloud - and a great view of Mt Meru next to it. We passed through Arusha and went 30km on to our campsite. Thankfully we had a bbq laid on so no cooks help and wash-up duties tonight! After a ...
Tantalizing Tanzania
Hakuna Matata! (No worries!) The Serengeti in Tanzania has definitely been the highlight of all the natural wonders in the world we have visited to date. The wildlife nd birdlife we spotted on our six day safari numbered well over a hundred ...
Masai Mara - Kenya
... bumping along), where we met our new group for our main tour. Yesterday we left Nairobi and hit the road for a 6 hour drive to Arusha. Again, this journey went very quickly with new people on the bus to speak to. We are now in Arusha where we spend 3x ...
Arusha
... . It was really good getting this sorting as we could then focus on the important stuff - relaxing. As Arusha is the safari capital in Tanzania, due to its location close to the Serengeti, Ngorogoro, and Kilimanjaro, there are a lot of safari ...
Our first safari
... a back road to Arusha National Park. It was very bumpy with lots of washouts and we saw many locals. We arrived at Arusha National Park. From the parking lot, we spotted some giraffes peaking over the tree tops. The adventure began. We went to ...
All the pretty flowers
... return till 6PM, so definitely a tiring day, well concluded with a big bowl of pasta and a glass of pineapple juice. Your Photo feature for the day are some of the beautiful fruit trees and flowering plants that I get to see every day here in ...
Mzungu!
... much more important and respected title that of "Mwalimu" (teacher). I had already discovered in other Arusha encounters that teachers are highly respected in Tanzania. Although quite pleased to learn this, I hope I can live up to the expectation in ...
ARUSHA - TANZANIA
Arrived in Kilimanjaro Airport and had a friendly Tanzanian drive me all the way to my guest house in Arusha about an hour away. Next day I booked a 5 day, 4 night safari starting Monday into the Serengeti, Ngorongorn Crater and Tarangire National ...
Tanzania Orphan Project
... past week. Taryn Aksamit, our bus driver at Zeman for many years, has started this orphanage just outside of the Tanzania Planting Corporation. TPC is a huge sugarcane factory with miles of sugarcane fields all around. We spent Sunday ...
Been to Dar es Salaam
... . It was built by German missionaries. Then back to the house where I did NOTHING for 3 days as they have a house girl. We came back to Arusha ton Sunday as Mamas son was home from school. He had been sick. He told us he was bitten by a cobra snake in the ...
Exhuasted and Excited
I took a bus very early this morning from Nairobi, Kenya to Arusha, Tanzania. I used to say "You never lived until you rode in a cab in Mexico." This bus driver put Mexican cabbies to shame. However, I am so glad I chose the ...
Day One
... well. It was long but not a single hiccup - we were both even able to get a little sleep on the Amsterdam to Tanzania leg. Talk about deja vu... it was surreal being back at tiny Kilimanjaro national airport two years later. Even more ...
Nane Nane
Today is a holiday called Nane Nane so we went to the fair. It's an agricultural fair. We stayed for an hour or so and then went to a place so we could all have lunch together before Anna and Melody left for the airport. Dan from ...
The tour starts here...
... do some pushing and shoving to get them on board the truck! Once everything was packed we started the drive to the Kenya/Tanzania border, we sorted out our visas and headed towards our camp for the night. On route we passed through lots of rural ...
Making friends
... separate wireless places (finally ending up at the uber posh hotel in town, paying $5 for one hour of internet which is a fortune in Arusha but worth my mental sanity if it worked). Finally I was able to download 8 (count them, 8!) documents, send ...
Ten things I've been doing with my time
1. Baking Bread: Whole wheat sourdough- Sourdough because I made the dough and set it to rise and then the power was out for two days. Okay, so I know that's not the recommended way of making sourdough, but it actually turned ...
Safaris
Je suis enfin arrivé après une journée de bus à Arusha. Première impression, il fait froid et on sent l' altitude (1300m). Le Kilimandjaro est vraiment joli à voir de loin, il est vraiment tentant de le grimper tout comme le Mt Meru. Ainsi que de ...
Safari im Norden Tanzanias
... ;der Kilimanjaro der hoechste Berg Afrikas. Eine Besteigung kostet um die 1000 US Dollar. Wir begnuegen uns mit dem Anblick. Von Arusha aus starten wir am naechsten Tag eine Safari zum Lake Manyara Nationalpark, in dem wir von unserem Jeep aus viele ...
to the top and back again
hi, i'm jordan. welcome to my travelogue. brew your coffee, bake your cookies, and come along for the ride. jambo rafiki! from arusha, tanzania. i'll start from the top, which seems only appropriate. in this case, the top is uhuru peak on mount ...
Back to Arusha, and My Last Full Day in Africa
This is a top pick! Woke up and I was feeling a little better, although my hip started bothering ...
The Germans Are Coming!
... vegetables. I am sure there are lots of good veggies in my garden right now that I am not eating because I am here. In Tanzania, one eats a lot of starch. Rice, chapati (flatbread), bananas, and maize. I was rather surprised to see corn growing in ...
The Migration
As we crossed over the border to Tanzania, our image of Africa appeared - flat plains, few trees and small huts everywhere. Kenya and Uganda were beautiful but they weren't the image of Africa we had. We loaded up the 4WD's and headed out ...
Arusha
Mini tornados in Tanzania. Picking up only dust. We pass Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest volcano in the world but it only flashes us with it's snow topped peak. The clouds cover it's body. "Drop knowledge not pants." But when I drop my pants, knowledge comes ...
Lots of Pumbaas, No Pumas
We went to Arusha National Park today on our first safari and, with much excitement, we saw our first: giraffe, zebra, buffalo, warthog, black and white colobus monkey, blue monkey, baboon, bushback and hippo. The park is set in the shadow of Mt. Meru, ...