Highview Hotel Ngorongoro Conservation Area

... We also saw a lot of fruits being grown – i.e. mangoes, bananas, pineapples, passion fruit, pomegranates, etc. Again, you can probably find the majority of the fruits in the world somewhere on Zanzibar.

After the tour, we went and had a traditional lunch – with rice pilau, fish, rice, stewed bananas, coconut sauce, potatoes, and greens. Good stuff – then we were off for a tour of Stone Town.

Stone Town is the old part of Zanzibar ...

... When the rain started, again at about 3am, we packed up the tent and took sleeping mats to the bar and slept under the table. The mosquitoes had a feast but at least I got a bit of sleep. We’ve had several rainy nights since, but none as bad as those by the supposed lake of stars.

On the second evening we had a bad taste fancy dress party with spit roasted pig. We’d all been to the market a few days before and had to buy an outfit for another member ...

... kept up a sure and steady pace.

As she headed over a bluff our driver explained that there were no roads that went that direction and we knew we had lost her. We headed back to camp then for lunch, packing up our tent and bags and loading them in the truck once more.

Before going to the Ngorongoro crater we were heading to the cradle of civilization; or at least where they had uncovered some of the oldest ...

... my best before this trip aswell. We went swimming in the pool overlooking the Indian Ocean and the ferry port. Ate crab cakes, grilled shrimp, and chicken jambalaya at the cajun restaurant here, and we are now at the very high speed internet cafe (ahhhhh, what a breath of fresh air)
I have a bottle of tusker beer waiting for me in our room as it was happy hour at the bar so I got 2 beers for the price of 1 :)

So this is us up until now. We have a tv with ...

... last tour leader was just fired. Reason - because someone on his last trip threatened a lawsuit because the trip didn’t go 100% as planned. Problem - they were doing a game drive out of some park and had to be out before the park closed at a certain time before the gates locked for good. So they were just whizzing by a few different animals without ...

... his hand out of the window and quickly touch a lion. I quickly put my finger on the shutter because I really wanted the lion to jump in the window for a second meal, but no dice. What kind of idiot does that? The lion had just eaten and looked really tired and probably just wanted to sleep. Lazy lion! After 30 minutes of traffic jam wrangling, we made it out and headed out of the park. Man this was the best game drive yet! PS..........Next time use binoculars.

... across some Cheetahs then went off in search of some Rhinos. Although we never found the rhinos we did see Elephants, Flamingos, Buffalo, Wildebeest, Hippos, Hyenas and Lions. The last lion we saw was when all the safari vehicles were leaving and a Lioness was using them as cover to try and get a Gazelle, something it typically failed at.

... sunrise. It took me 6. I saw the sunrise below it. It didn't really matter. In the daylight, you could see how steep it is! My only thought was to make it to the point! And finally, around 7 am, we were there at Stella point. From here you could see the Uhuru peak, and it was a walk around the mountain ridge, not very steep, some places even flat. From here, I knew that I was going to make it. However, it was too soon to celebrate! There was one and a half hour more to ...

... Wednesday we wondered around stonetown until lunchtime when we got a bus up to the north of the island to a place called Sunset Beach. We spent the day relaxing on the beach, playing volleyball and meeting new people who are also on overland tours. In the evening most of us had dinner together at the restaurant before having a very big night at the Bikini - Bar.

The next day was also spent on the beach, and then 9 of us went on ...