Bagamoyo Hotels - Reviews and Rates

This past weekend marked my 4th week here, and I've got 8 more to go. Most people only stay for 3-4 weeks though, so out of the original 13 in my arrival group, only 5 of us are still here. I have to say, I got so lucky with the people in my group. Everyone is/was so nice, smart, easy going and eager to take in the Tanzanian culture, and after w...

Mambo Watu! (Whasup, people?) Today marks the 2-week mark of my stay in Tanzania. For financial and other reasons, I decided to stay in town this weekend and relax a bit. Really, it feels like I've been here a month, with the long days and boatload of activities (hey, I thought this was supposed to be a vacation ... not! Actually, it sort of fee...

Hello Everyone, Betty is a wonderful preschool teacher at the school I teach at here in Bagamoyo. On top of that, she does the laundry at our home base. Betty teaches preschool alone in her tiny room with no electricity, limited to no materials, and 30 students who range from 4 years to 6 years. I've talked to Betty a few times, but today we had...

I went to the orphanage today and it was wonderful. The kids are great! The highlight was my camera. They love to take picture and get their picture taken. One girl was insisting that we take 1,000 pictures together, and then it was 3,000 and eventually went up to 30,000 pictures. I told her pictures were finished and she said "Hapana (no)...30,...

This will be my final blog in Bagamoyo - probably. I am still debating about which day I am leaving here, but most likely it will be tomorrow. The last few days have been very relaxing. Oh, who am I kidding, the last 6 weeks have been very relaxing! I finished carving my mask, I think it looks great! And I deserve only minimal credit for how goo...

In my previous blog I believe I said I would be moving to Francesco's. We did that, and have since moved on. Francesco's was a little too open for us - meaning that sleeping at a bar/hotel was maybe not the best idea because people would get drunk and then wander to our room. We moved on around the corner (we are now exactly a block from where w...

Never know when where and for how long...
Life sometimes put you to the earth place and you dont know why...
Later on you find out taht everything has some reason...

Still no idea why there;)

So this past weekend was my last weekend in Tanzania! *tear* For my last weekend I want to go somewhere so Roxy and I decided to head about an hour north to Bagamoyo. Bagamoyo used to be a major city. It was the capital of German East Africa for some time before they moved it to Dar. It was also a major slave exporting city. Bagamoyo is right ac...

What a wonderful few days relaxing by the Indian ocean! Claire and I caught a dala-dala (minibus) from Dar to Bagamoyo ($1.50, 1.5 hours) on Tuesday 14th and foolishly decided to walk to our accomodation in the midday heat. Needless to say, it was further than we thought, so ended up getting a taxi half way. The accomodation was so quiet and we ...

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii everyone Have finally arrived in Africa... its insane. Dont really know where to start, theres so much to tell and I only have another 20 minutes on the net. Well... flights were fine, long and draining but ok. The whole time I kept thinking "what the hell am I doing, theres no going back now", and my flight with Keny...