Kigongoni Lodge Arusha

... took naps since they had cushions), hot water showers and toilet paper in the bathrooms. It's got a reggae vibe; most of the workers have dreads and there's always reggae music playing. It's run by an American named Darryl who we met last night. He was an actor in New York and moved to Kenya in 2002 to teach drama at the international school for 2 years, liked it so much that he's stayed.<br>We really wanted to do a safari up in Ngorogoro Crater but the cheapest one is $200 per ...

jambo,<br><br>Another adventures week over. On sunday went down to the local river for some quiet time before taking the kids to the local hotel for swimming time/lesson and pizza. At the river thought for some reason that it was a good idea to take my phone out of my pocket and to put this phone on the slippery rocks, well you can guess what happend all three of us (was with jenni and sofia) tried to grap the phone but no luck and still ended up in the ...

... its way. We all let out a collective sigh of disappointment. Then we watched as the hippo plunged into the water from the steep embankment, displacing a huge amount of water like a big belly flop every man would be envious of. <br><br>Disappointed we decided the lion must have thought she couldn&#8217;t take the hippo down on her own, and from the stories we&#8217;ve heard about hippos I&#8217;m guessing she probably made a wise ...

... here. When the turn-down service is provided at night, they spray the room extensively and close the mosquito netting until morning. She recommended we apply bug spray with DEET (not 100% but something in the 15-30% range) on all exposed areas each day and lightly spray under light clothing as the bugs will bite through. (We are also taking a daily prescription drug called &#8220;Malaron&#8221; as a malaria preventative.) She said ...

... wondering how much of the emotion was for show. That said, it was clear that the people here care about their church life in a deep way and that they get important energy and sustenance from both the form and the content of their services. For example, About 80% of the congegation took detailed notes on the sermon. The sermon was really more of a Bible study. A verse was read (Matthew 10:42-52 I think? Palm Sunday- the blind beggar who is at ...

Day 4 Feb 18 Today we had to wake up very early to catch a taxi to another hotel from which the shuttle for Arusha (Tanzania) was departing. We left our hotel at sunrise: 6:25am and you won't believe the vehicle and human traffic! All those of you complaining about the traffic in Moscow, welcome to Nairobi, you'll see what real traffic is! People leave houses here at 6am or earlier. I guess kids start school at 7am, otherwise I cannot explain the number of ...

You have asked, you have begged, you have cajoled and cried and wept and whined. And now, without further ado, the MONKEYS who live at my house! For those of you who like this sort of thing, they are Blue Vervet Monkeys, and there's quite a large troupe of them who gallavant through the neighborhood. Lots of cute babies (as you can see). We have a compost pile in our back yard that they love to ...

... through part of the park, you have to have a guard armed with a rifle. Mind you, this rifle looks like it's probably been around since colonial times, but it did give a sense of security to know that in the event of a buffalo charge or a leopard ambush, we'd have some line of defense. Plus, (and infinitely more to the point) it helped me to imagine that I was Meryl Streep in Out of Africa...

... very tasty but more like home-made health bars than ooey-gooey cookies, so the quest continues. Sunday I went on a LONG hike with a couple of fellow interns (including the illustrious Malaika TYRANOSAURUS Boxer the IIV). We walked straight out of the center of town, up and over one of the foothills of Mt. Meru, down in to a gorge where we followed a small river upstream to a(nother) lovely ...