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Relaxing on a white sand beach
This is a top pick! We arrived in the dark of night (about 7pm) after 4 wheeling the taxi over sand dunes to get to the hotel. This morning we realized there aren't any sand dunes, it's just a bit of sand on the very bumpy roads through the village. The owner of the hotel is in Dar right now but the bartender and server waited for us to arrive and made us a late …
Finding our sea legs
This is a top pick! Yesterday was a bit of a mixed bag. The staff prepared an early breakfast for us so we could eat before walking down the beach to the dive shop. Breakfast was delicious and filling. We met our dive group at the shop and got the lowdown. We took a small boat out to a big boat, as the water is never very high on this beach. Once on the big boat and …
Kilimanjaro
Burke and I had a very early flight and our driver from the airport the previous day did not feel confident that an hour is enough time to get through Nairobi's airport. The flight was fairly fast but one thing I have never seen a pilot do is act as a tour guide. We had a pretty small plane and as we approached mt Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa, he spoke over the intercom and had everyone ...
Hakuna Matata on our last day
... are assured that we will have ample opportunity to buy spices on our spice tour.
We walk past the Turkish baths which our guide said wasn’t hardly anything now and walk past the studded door of one of the Sultan’s women, and head down an alley where there are jewelry stores. I like jewelry. I had seen a nice pair of white gold earrings shaped like Africa and ...
Onwards to Zanzibar!
... emerged into the heat to the smiles of Abdul Latif (or was that La Teef?) holding up a sign that just said "Alison". Great amusement that anyone could be called Alison Anderson. Indeed. Quite so, as someone might say.
Into the people carrier and off we went.Zanzibar! I am not surewhat I had expected, but it is far greener and more lush than I had imagined, with large areas of water... some covered evenly with both ...
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