Crater Rim View Karatu

... up was Lushuto in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. Very beautiful and our camp site (though over half of us upgraded with this one) was right near town and very well established and apropriately called Lawns Camp. They had a whole bunch of camp dogs which I (again) made friends with but these were a little worse for wear so not many other were willing to give them the pats some of them so desperately wanted. We took a walk up the mountains via ...

Kirsty

Hi everyone, sorry this firsr entry has taken so long but the internet here is not the best. For anyone who doesn't know the two of us set off for Tanzania 2 weeks ago. The plan was to work in Northern Tanzania with an american cardiac anesthesiologist turned bush doctor - Frank Artress. He came to Tanzania 5 years ago and set up FAME(foundation for african medicine and education), check out his website www.fameafrica.org. A relative night ...

From Mto Wa Mbu it was off to the Ngorongoro crater. We always thought this was a national park but we found out when we got there that it is not. There are Masai people who live in the crater so it cannot be made into a national park. The animals that are in the crater were put there by man and so there is no migration through the area. We did see a lot of Thompson Gazelles, Zebras and Wildabeasts. It is a ...

Mto Wa Mbu, in the local language, means 'Mosquito River', and you can understand why the marketing people have kept the name in the local form. As it turns out we saw neither mosquitoes, or a river, so perhaps it wasn't the best name anyway.

Having just left the Serengeti and with nothing much left before Nairobi, there wasn't much expectation of this small town, apart from some ...

... 2000 feet and 102 sq miles of crater floor. It is one of the most perfectly formed - and certainly the most spectacular - calderas on the planet. The world-famous Ngorongoro Crater is a designated World Heritage Site likened to Noah's Ark in its preservation of diversity.

We will drive down 600 meters into the crater to witness an impressive assemblage of wildlife. The Crater is the permanent home of up to ...

... and sometimes has difficult days, was especially thin skinned and I felt awful when I realized she began to cry. After multiple discussions with the park attendant and multiple decision changes among the girls, we decided to continue to the crater but cut our visit short by a day.

Two hours after arriving at the eastern gate we passed into the Conservation Area and were welcomed by waving Maasai young males. Last year, the drive through this area was one of the ...

... Maasai circumcision ceremony... thankfully the deed itself is done before the ceremony but we were able to see how the Maasai celebrate: the women in their ceremonial dress and jewellery while the young warriors perform their chanting and jumping. It's another amazing thing to see and we're lucky to see it happening outside of a performance staged for tourists! Well, I think that's about it for now.... Phew! Apologies in advance for the mammoth amount of pics and vids!

... I had to break out my sleeping bag as temperature at night went down to 7 degrees. No time to wallow though... at 7am we were picked up by a couple of land rovers and began the very steep descent into the crater. The crater was teaming with lots of wildlife, but the highlight of the whole day was when a big lion walked right past the land rover and didn't even care that we were there. It just ...

Mijn gids was Moshi Changai
(niet te verwarren met de stad Moshi), een jongen van 29 jaar die heel
erg zijn best deed en ook veel ervaring heeft in het gidsen en koken.
Zijn website: www.tanzaniaculturaltours.com.

Nou, dat was me een belevenis, 3 dagen lang!

Het begon al meteen goed, met een busrit van een uur of 7 lang, die begon
om 6 uur 's ochtends. Dus ik stond al om 5.20u klaar op de stoep van ...

... br> (of volwassenen) maakt, je ze meteen kunt laten zien. Meestal komen ze
dan wel kijken, zonder te weten wat je bedoelt. En dan opeens zien ze
die 't.v.' zoals sommige kids het noemen, en is er altijd dat moment van
totale verrassing en vreugde. Ook bij volwassenen, dat is lachen joh!
Allemaal dringen om dat kleine schermpje, en giechelen, en wijzen op elkaar.
En de kinderen zeggen dan: nog een ...