Arusha Hostels - Reviews and Rates

A short drive took us to our last campsite of this leg and our last night in Tanzania. Our tents backed onto the snake park meaning no one was going to try and jump the back fence to get at them seeing as they'd have to cross the crocodile pit to do it!

People were a little demob happy as this was the last night together - many photos wer...

We got up and went to Tamiha where a few people gave a presentation on computers to the secondary school students that the organization sponsors, they have never had any access to computers! Melody and I had to leave early to go meet some other people in town. They were goign to buy thier tix for Zanzibar but the travel agency closes early on S...

I think for many people when they picture Africa, the images may be close to what I have described in my previous blogs. However, there is a lot of modernization and much more variety on the landscape. For example, my first morning in Tanzania, I awoke to find the movie "Benchwarmers" on TV and the hotel restaurant's TV displayed MTV while I ate...

Well, this weekend, my 5th weekend in Arusha, I finally got out to Arusha National Park to see all the animals who live there. This place is like 20 miles from my house, so it was making me crazy not to have been there yet, but you have to have a car to get around the park because of all the free-roaming wildlife. So I ended up going with an ass...

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 and Zebra who were on the run! We stopped to view this stampede because up to now we usually saw t...

Ahhh local buses! Africa does interesting versions. Cram as many people in as possible and drive like a maniac. We had a 6 hour journey (it was supposed to be 4) from Nairobi airport to Arusha in Tanzania. We weren't able to sit together with Heather scoring a fully veiled young Muslim Mum with a fractious and fidgety child to share with and Ava...

Considering the reckless intake of alcohol the night before, we rise insanely early to the chatter of a school playground, the rush of a mountain stream and the general panic of the hotel manageress. Alerted by the security guard to our nocturnal rambling, she's convinced that we must have been mugged. Our collective memories are barely coherent...

We landed at Kilimanjaro Airport around 8 pm. It was dark and buggy...literally, bugs falling from the ceiling as we were paying for our entry visas. We booked one night at an incredible guest house called the Onsea House: www.onseahouse.com They are in Arusha, which is a 45 minute drive from Kili airport. The owners of Onsea are a Belgian coupl...

Hello people! Sorry - in quite a rush right now, so not a very long entry...more detail later... To put a long story short - I failed to make it to the summit of Kili. Started at 1800 metres, got to the 4600 metre camp, then on the final trek to the summit at 5895, got quite bad altitude sickness(I had been nauseated for 2 days, but that was tol...

Fri Aug 26 DON'T PANIC! pix: http://c-4-c.com/80days/Tanzania-MEDIA/ 08-26-05_Day2 · Whew - lots more walking! · A beautiful day that never brought too much sun. · I visited a remote mountain village where the mud huts are built to be like separate rooms for each hut. They are more solid & roomy than I'd expected. · We visited a primary school w...