Impala Hotel Arusha

1. Baking Bread: Whole wheat sourdough- Sourdough because I made the dough and set it to rise and then the power was out for two days. Okay, so I know that's not the recommended way of making sourdough, but it actually turned out tasty and not at all deadly. 2. Knitting a scarf: It's yellow and purple. 3. Going to the Gym (see also #6): But like no gym I've ever seen before. Player's Club has a full restaurant and bar as well as a pool (with poolside food/drink service, of course) a weight ro...

Today, officially, the RAINS have come to Arusha. And with them, the dreaded wadudu. the Swahili word that means insect generally, but in this particular instance refers to ant-sized creatures with a three-inch wing span. They come out of holes in the ground with the rain, and shortly after they emerge, their wings fall off. So I got to the office today and the cleaning staff was sweeping up piles of wings and wingless insects from the bathrooms, where the windows had been open all night. My ...

Sorry it's been so long again, I've been all over the place - village, travelling within Tanzania for my holidays and back in Iringa sick again! After I last wrote I spent a couple of weeks in my village, just teaching in the primary school because the secondary has closed down for holidays, and trying to give some seminars in the community. The teaching is still going great, ever improving as my level of Kiswahili also improves, but working with community adults remains our largest challenge...

I wanted to do a quick, separate entry on Arusha. Arusha, along with this other town called Moshi, are the two small towns that act as staging points for tourists. Moshi is closer to Kili, but our tour guide company had an office in Arusha, so that's how we ended up there. One thing I noticed is that I never saw tourists walking around either town. I think people must fly into Kili, go to their hotel & then leave the next day for either Mt. Kili, Mt. Meru or a safari. We were warned that ...

Eating Indian food in a hotel called the Impala in Arusha Tanzania has to be one of the funniest things. But damn, it was good. As was the company. A mass of biologists from many different countries, and there was Guinness too!

want want want wahhhhhh

We got up early and had a final breakfast with our friends Nick and Barbara. They will be in the crater all day, but we will leave around 11 to head for Arusha. We got a better view of a male lion today. He was incredibly large and well-defined, with a huge mane and majestic body. Wow, very impressive. We got some up close views of zebras, wildbeasts, warthogs, and hienas. We also saw a golden jackal, which we hadn't seen yet. It was a little cloudy and cool, but hopefully there was enough li...