Moshi Hotels - Reviews and Rates

5am comes fast....especially when there is a yard full of ****ing roosters outside your window... seeing as I am the only one awake I brew a cup of tea and sit on the varandah awaiting my first sunrise in africa... It has been raining hard all night, the damp earth and tropical flowers fills my nostrils as Tuesday morning first peeks out from be...

Two weeks?! Is that it?!?! How?!?! I guess because I have had so so many experiences in such a short time - I honestly feel like Ive been here for years and love every second of it. The people are just so so friendly and welcoming - everything from teaching you Swahili before their English class starts to buying pineapples for you so you dont ge...

So I made it to the day 3 at the nursery before I started crying! Honestly guys, you would not believe quite how moving this place is. As always Kate and I attracted stares from all and shouts of "Mzungu! Mzungu!" from every child we passed and amassed our usual hoard of kids on our way through Kalaleni. Yet another lesson with the younger kids ...

Week 2 in East Africa was the mighty Mount Kilimajaro. Julie and I both made it to the summit, 5895m the highest freestanding mountain in the world, higher than Everest base camp. The first days were fairly easy (remember this is Trevor writing this, so it´s his version of easy!) about 5-7 hrs hiking each day up a fairly slow and steady slope (1...

Hamjambo everyone (practicing my Swahili). Well, I leave this Thursday for Tanzania, Africa...this will be my 4th volunteer placement with Cross Cultural Solutions(CCS) and the juices are flowing! ....I'll be returning in late October. The home base for the volunteers is in Moshi, a small town that is situated at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The...

I just talk a college-level class! Iwas just a studenta couple years ago! My firstclass wentverywell. The studentscan be very shy and I oftenget a sea of blank stares. So I brought candy in today to get them talking.I hadthemtake a bunch of jelly beans and foreachcolor bean they had to share a certain fact about themselveswith the class. I start...

Habari za leo! I would like to start off by apologizing for the lack of entries this last week. Truth is, the computer at the home-base decided to contract a virus and the internet decided to peace out. Haha, when in Africa right?! This makes me thankful for wireless and high speed internet. This last week went by VERY fast. I decided to do a we...

Today was not a good day. I woke up with a sore throat and I thought I was all right. I quickly learned that I was sick. I had a runny nose, a burning throat, a huge headache and I was fatigued. I don't remember much about this morning other than the fact that I felt like ****. During the interviews, I felt like I was going to pass out. We manag...

After a good night's rest in a comfortable bed, we thanked Robert and left the Harvey Home to find an open supermarket to buy some supplies. In Tanzania, time is calculated in Swahili time. Sunrise (which is always at 6am) is 12 o'clock and so when someone tells you to meet him at 3:30, he actually means 9:30am. Here the shops opened at 2:30 so ...

The small bushes and plants that accompanied us in Karanga were slowly but surely disappearing as we approached Barafu. Barafu was our highest camp site at 15,500 ft, and would also be the last site before we went for the summit. It was very windy and exposed at Barafu. Our tents were scattered around as there were not many level places to pitch...