Bluebay Beach Resort Kiwengwa

I had forgotten how beautiful Tanzania was. As soon as we crossed the border the scenery was appealing (although the bloody country charges Irish passport holders twice as much as everyone else....not happy Jan!!!....albeit the rest of the truck was happy because I had gloated a lot about getting into Zambia free).


After some serious long driving days, we arrived into the hectic Dar es Salaam, though Dar ...

... filmmaker who dominated the days Film workshop with his sharp wit told us how he had not been in Zanzibar for 18 years. “It was different then. Not so many hotels, or tourists. But still, it’s beautiful here. Very beautiful.” The whole of Zanzibar is spread around us. He pointed out various landmarks from our lofty position.

“You know, there’s a bar next door, downstairs, part of this. Kidudu. It’s nice. Very nice ...

... being in the bar last night after taking sunset photos!!!!! Wayne sprinted to the bar on instantly realising this. I sat and calculated it was gone and we would need to go to the police and report it stolen. He returned 5 minutes later with the bag intact. The bar waiter seeing it on the chair after we left to go to another restaurant for dinner had put it behind the bar. So So lucky and so grateful Wayne gave the man a large tip for his caring for the camera. It was an ...

... way to the dive centre, probably about the commission, but thankfully agreed when we promised not to tell anyone else we had got it for 15,000. There must be some kind of code on the island that you can't lower the cost under a set marker. Our dude obviously had. With the number of tourists being relatively low competition was fierce and the guy just simply saw an edge by undercutting. Movement was slow on the big old wooden dow boat, making it to the atoll in about 2 ...

... of food, not knowing how many days ago their last meal was. It's fair to say that none of us on the truck know how it feels to go longer than a day or two with nothing to eat. Malawi was a similar feeling in places where we pull over at the side of the road, eat lunch as a crowd gathers, and then drive away. So why don't we just give people food? Apparently it's pretty much a rule among overlanders to not give to people begging, as it only encourages it and also gives the people ...

... je rencontrais deux « Backpackers » : Kieran (Anglais) et Adam (US), avec qui je passai les 3 jours suivant. Mes activités, entre exploration de la ville de Stonetown et faire la fête tous les soirs, ce qui j'en conviens est plus banal, se révélèrent fantastique. En tout le but de ces trois jours : décompresser, fut atteint. Cette ville est réellement une destination à part, un peu magique, on se croirait revenus à l'époque du sultanat (si tant ...

... enough to get another flight I the same day I was heading back to the UK after 9 months of working in Africa. It was actually the first time I really wanted to go home. I just had enough of working in Africa and dealing with the Africans and there backwards ways and them always trying to get money out of you and just sometimes being generally nasty. I thought to myself yes I dont have to go back, but how wrong could I have been as 2 weeks later I had to fly back out again!

... very favorite thing to do just about any place), our goal for Stone Town was to take a spice tour. Since Zanzibar is known for its spices, this is one of the activities that most tourists to the island take part in at one time or another. Not kidding. It's totally worth it, too. Funny story - nearly all (I'm covering bases) of the spices for which Zanzibar is famous come from other continents, especially Asia. But they grow them so well that they're ...

... some of my stuff over but by the time I got back to the hotel for the second round, it was raining so hard that I decided to take a taxi. If I would have known that I was going to have to take a taxi anyway, I could have done it all on one trip. I spent most of the day at the new hotel just hanging around in my room reading, having a nap and such because I was not feeling so well. I had a head ache and was just generally feeling "off" and down. 17 June Started the day ...

... perspective. Well, maybe travelers knew something I didn't, because on my first night, the power went. That's right Jon, it "went." And it didn't come back for the rest of my time on the island. Indeed, in today's newspaper, a full week after I returned to the mainland, I read that the power is still not back on. I guess the government has shipped over some emergency generators and figured out a way to make sure the water pumps are running, but yeesh, this is supposed to ...