Sazani Beach & Dive Centre Nungwi

... us. We got onto the boat, past the Tanzanian Navy's Patrol Boats (I later spotted Zanzibar's ones... the mainland did MUCH better...) and 2.5 hours later (with David Attenborough documentaries to watch onboard) we arrived in Stone Town.
Stone Town is a maze of back streets and tall buildings with tiny little stalls all dotted randomly. The ...

... boring.... we did get some Eddie Murphy flick and then some national geographic african animal tv doco. I'm not really sure what is so express about it... we still stopped a lot... I wonder what the Dar Go slow would be like....?

Got the giggles when random clothing starting falling from the storage above right on to my head. First I had a vest land on my head... looked at melissa, she is sleeping so dont worry... 2 mins later a pair of inside out red ...

... there exactly for the full moon. The transfer took about an hour, we drove through the island. The scenery was just like in the Carribean - lush green vegetation and coconut palm trees. However, you could also see the typical African villages with the mud huts with thatched roofs. After checking in, the first thing was to go to the beach. The water was a bit colder here, compared to Dar es Sallam and there were some clouds in the sky. The beach was long with fine ...

... dinner- make sure it is one I will have missed on my travels as well.
Oliver and Dan are hoping to get the 48hour train on Friday as well, so we all leave for Lusaka together, but I get there considerably faster, albeit via Johannesberg. They did offer to fly to Lusaka with me (please note Helen, they are not bad boys) but as this involved me buying 3 tickets at $500 instead of ...

... day and although we got rained on as the boat left the resort, the weather soon cleared up and we had a great day snorkelling around the reefs and then relaxing on another sand-island. That night we shared an enormous sea-food platter and a cheeky glass of vino or two as we realised it was exactly one year till we tie the knot!

So what’s next? Lushoto is in our sights, a mountain town surrounded by thick rainforest, a real change from the parts of Tanzania we’ve seen so far!

Oh my god, seriously why do Muslims think it necessary to scream down a microphone at every bloody hour of the morning, their screeching waking everyone in the whole damn city. Possibly country for that matter. Ahhhhhhh. I wonder how they would feel if I did the same preaching the antichrist.. or anti Allah or whatever. Anyway.... between the wailing and drunken antics at the bar didn't get too much sleep but that doesn't matter CAUSE WE'RE OFF TO ZANZIBAR! YAY!! Woke at ...

... with a swirling tide which now made the sea quite a bit deeper, John managed to slip on the rocks here and fall over, which wasn't so good as he doesn't swim too well, but we all came out the other side laughing, so alls well that ends well. We arrived back around 12.30 and decided to have banana smoothies in the shade - then John wanted to go in the sea again. Mum and dad had been worn out by the beaming sun and said they would meet ...

... with wide stretches of golden beach (even at high tide) and only a few hotels that may have been crammed in on the road but looked pretty spaced out on the beach - all with large beach restaurants. We found the price of one of the cheapest basic double's in the area was US$60 and the food was a little more pricey, but it would have been worth it to stay there - if you were feeling well of course! The clear blue seas were stunning... even under the dark ...

... Needless to say stopped by Malawian police who book the kid and then fish for bribes...they pull Chris aside and say ''this overloading causes many problems...many many problems''. Chris pulled over for the second time this time by three cops - the main man then asks ''Chris...do you know David Beckham?''. Brilliant. We're not forthcoming with the backhanders so two of us get a pickup to the closest town before squeezing back in and heading to Chitimba beach.

... raving mad, after dinner you walk down to the beach, and you just see stacks of small to medium sized crabs strolling around - so we chase them around for 20 min, they run like hell, you never really get close cos they are so quick, but its a good contest When you are tired of that you hit the hammock and lie in the dark watching the stars through the palm trees - amazing - every night has been so clear Then its off to bed, another day awaits