Moshi Hostels - Reviews and Rates

I packed by bags nearly two years ago, saying goodbye to the Midwest USA. I kept my options open for anything as I set off to reunite with some Brit and Irish friends that I had met while doing some short term volunteering in Moshi some months earlier. My life as a tennis coach in the US was being put on hold, giving my poor arm some time to hea...

Vrijdag 24 sept. nam ik de shuttle bus van Nairobi (Kenia) naar Arusha
(Tanzania). Het verkrijgen van een visum aan de grens ging hartstikke
snel en makkelijk, dus ik ben blij dat ik daar geen extra kosten voor
heb gemaakt van tevoren in Nederland.

Meteen daarna nam ik een public bus van Arusha naar Moshi, want Moshi
...

Day 2 - Well unluckily for me I did hear the crazy animals... could I get back to sleep??? oh my god... its coming into the tent... not the face... hahahaha... just kiding... Made it to the second camp, called second cave on the Rongai route. On the way the guide did point out the buffelo tracks and small elephant tracks too! The scenery here is...

February 28, 2009
Kilimanjaro challenge a success!
We are now in our recovery day following a successful summit 2 days ago. The whole experience was pretty amazing. Our guide, Saumu, the only female Kili guide in Moshi, came to our hotel the day prior to the climb to check out our equipment and clothing to ensure we were adequately prepa...

First view of Mount Kili! Its amazing and you can see it from my room - will put some pics up when I find a sliiiiiightly faster computer. Turns out the primary schools arent open until next week so I start off in a Nursery school - we all know my "skills" with kids so this is just a disater waiting to happen really isnt it? One of the guys from...

Hopefully Ignorance is Bliss I'm truly enjoying my time at the orphanage! While I teach both kids from the orphanage and non-orphaned village kids who come to classes there also, it is not always easy to determine who is orphaned or not. Today was a national holiday so there was no school in Tanzania, but the orphanage is always open and always ...

So the past few days have been filled with a lot of highs and a lot of lows. I should explain. Yesterday was a rough day at my placement. For some reason, I only had two students in class. I only had one on Friday. It was frustrating. I had an in-class assignment planned that they needed to do and nobody showed up. So i'm working on the assignme...

Hey Everyone! The second day of safari was amazing! We got to sleep in a little bit and left around 7:30am for Manyara Park. This park is smaller and surrounds a very long lake, Manyara lake. The terrain is much more jungle like with little grasslands. A stray dog followed into the park and our driver immediatley told us not to get attached beca...

Today is the day of rest and we sure got lots of it! We got up at 10:20 for 11am mass. We walked over to the Roman Catholic Church, which is actually semi-far. The walk takes up at least 20 minutes. Mass was inside today and it was a beautiful church. We weren't the only non-black Tanzanians today! The kneelers had no padding on them whatsoever....

...There's no telling where the dirt ends and the tan begins ...You wrap yourself in a decorated sheet and call it an outfit ...You're introducing yourself as an acrobat to avoid another conversation about where you're from ...Because of said introduction you're hiding from an actual acrobat who wants to incorporate you into his act and you're a...