The Arusha Hotel
Clocktower Roundabout, Corner of Uhuru Road Arusha, 00, Tanzania
Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelThe Arusha Hotel
Valentines Day
Valentines Day and for the third year running I found a lovely Internet card from my favourite mate in Bristol - thank you! Made my day! It was Louisa's Birthday and we all met at Louisa's shack, high up Mount Meru Mountain. The plan for all 20 of us hadn't been thought through and after a few hours we were all hungry and people started to fall out …
Day 1 - the adventure has begun!
All of our travellers - AND all of their luggage - arrived in Arusha together and on schedule. Upon arrival at the Arusha Hotel around 10 pm last nite, we were greeted with welcoming smiles, cool towelettes and a refreshing glass of juice. This morning after a good sleep and breakfast we met our safari guides and had last minute schedule updates. …
So what did we see on our 1st safari?
Cape Buffalo, baboons, hippos, giraffe - within 6 feet of our jeep! - zebra, dikdik, colobus monkeys, warthogs, water buck, bush buck, and a blue monkey... All within 1 park and 3 hours. 2 flat tires barely slowed us down and 42 alumni returned to the hotel suitably excited and awed with their 1st day. Access will be sketchy as we head into the …
Day 2
Morning dawned bright and sunny. Early breakfast and then tour of city. Stopped at Cultural Centre where arts and crafts could be admired and souvenirs purchased. Lots of intricate ebony and rosewood carvings - impossibly intertwined figures of the nation's best known wildlife species. And the tanzanite! Oh my! After lunch we head to our lodge on …



