Arusha Naaz Hotel
Travel Blogs from Arusha
Operation clean sweep!
... plastic thingies in the size
of a decent schnapps or fairly good shoot, depending upon where you from, and
they are everywhere, so telling from the track of Conyagi plastic bags he left
behind he had his fair share of Conyagi shoots….And if heŽs lost heŽll probably
be able to track his way back, hmm come to think about it that might not be
such a good idea, because I guess he won’t end up at home….
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Back on the road
... We woke the next morning, both still alive and well, to find no sign of our night visitors. They'd moved on with the sunrise, presumably to laze under an Acacia tree as they are wont to do during the heat of the day, probably resting to come back the following night to terrorise the next group of campers. On the road early, we spent the day driving around the park, again seeing lots of lions and cool stuff, along with more amazing landscapes. Later in the day when ...
Summit day. The final push to the peak.
... which already felt like rubber. But we persevered and after what seemed like an eternity, even though it was only 1.5 hours, we reached our camp at 3100m. Eric and the gang were there to congratulate us on our fabulous achievement! We got some washing water and pop corn and we couldn't stop smiling. Konrad was feeling much better, which was good as he had been really sick the previous day. Everyone was looking forward to making it back to the gate ...
Long ride to Arusha
... From there, we took a quick van ride over to the "local" terminal to catch our flight to Arusha. We had about a 1.5 hour layover until our "plane" came. I use the word plane loosely here. It actually had "toy" in the name of the plane model and sat 12 including the pilot and a copilot had there been one. We were 11 total. The pilot was wearing shorts and boat shoes. In Matt's world of flip flop wearing, I think ...
Hakuna Matata
... get a taste of their interesting lifestyle and of course get pressured into buying stuff. It was an awesome experience to see how different and simple the massai tribe live. They live in makeshift huts made from sticks and cow dung by the women, which is surrounded in brush fences to keep out wildlife and a central area to keep the cattle at night. They are semi-nomadic and live off of the cattle they heard. Their diet consists of predominately cattle meat, blood ...