Arusha Lodges - Reviews and Rates

We pulled into a camp site called Snake Park and intended to see if we could couple up with a Safari group to reduce our entrance fees into the Serengeti. To keep a long story short we have decided to hang around a few days to do domestics and then drive ourself through the Serengeti and attempt a remote border crossing into Kenya by Lake Victor...

After a few days of rest I'm ready to get back in the kitchen. A day of shopping in Arusha revealed the most interesting market yet, with regards to variety of produce. Eggplant and cabbage, as always, were joined by broccoli, cauliflower, coconut, cassava, all sorts of beans and corn as well as a huge variety of tropical fruits. Dried fish have...

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Jambo! That's the word we heard on every lip since we arrived in Tanzania. Its funny how a word can completely lose its original meaning (Welcome) when it is over used. When people called out jambo to us, usually they then started trying to sell us a safari trip or anything they were selling. To get a sense of the soul of East Africa, you need t...

It was another good weekend here in Arusha. Friday night I actually went out for dinner and drinks. Good pizza at a place called Players' which is a combo sport club and restaurant-bar. In other words, there's a wieght room basically in the bar area. A little weird, but a fun, casual atmosphere. Saturday the main activity was a trip to Shop-Rite...

Ok, so here's the story with Arusha. It's the second largest city in Tanzania, and the location of a special UN tribunal currently trying the principals behind the Rwandan genocide of the mid-90s. A friend of mine from law school happens to be interning for this tribunal, so I stayed with her last night. You see, I was feeling a little ill, and ...

Sex sells and hopefully that title caused you to open this entry, but alas nothing about sex. I am trying really hard to like the Tanzanians, the guide book says they are friendly, well the guide book is wrong so far as I can tell. The de facto greeting in Arusha is 'have you booked a safari'. *******. Dar-es-Salaam conjured up wonderful, romant...

The Serengeti...All I have to say is WOW. What a large expanse of land for as far as the eye can see with what seems like nothing but is teaming with all sorts of wildlife. We begin our first day in the Serengeti at 8:30am, as do most other people staying at the lodge. We begin driving around and we soon see giraffes and impalas (these are some ...

Over a cup of tea and a scone (or two) I was talking to my fellow volunteer , Emily, yesterday about her work as a teacher for the WIA nursery. As you know, WIA has a nursery for orphans of AIDS or very poor children. These are aged between 3 and 7. This school now holds 100 or so children. Until last week, there were 5 teachers and a foreign vo...

I'm back again...still have lots to write about my Xmas trip, but thought I would write a few words about how a bad few days in Arusha take place... I think it started with the stress of trying to get large files from the NGO laptop to the printers for stall posters. The laptop had the wrong version of word for a memory stick and only a floppy d...