Impala Hotel Arusha

... put you up between your hike & safari. It is a bit nicer - a TV, hot water, etc. Right now, we are at the Impala Hotel, in the tourist district. It is one of the nicest hotels in Arusha and our guess is that the tourists that stay here never leave ...

Eating Indian food in a hotel called the Impala in Arusha Tanzania has to be one of the funniest things. But damn, it was good. As was the company. A mass of biologists from many different countries, and there was Guinness ...

... driver to inform the other policemen at a check-post on our way. Our driver did as he was told. We later reached our hotel in Arusha.  We had our dinner at the hotel and slept. In the morning, the management staff of our travel agency (Real ...

... call to involve us. The safari office had gotten notification of the cancelled flight and directed the driver to take us to the Impala Hotel, in Arusha. KLM will be putting us up, until they fly us out of town. We haven't gotten anymore information and ...

... Indian place (um, they also have Chinese and Italian).  The night before, chili paneer and a ginger chicken dish at the Impala Hotel near my house. 5.  Reading Novels- finally the law school curse of hating all books has started to wear ...

... grow in greenhouses like the ones pictured here:  And, much more interestingly, beehives!   Driving anywhere between Arusha and Moshi, there are tons of these log beehives hanging from trees- sometimes 10 in a single tree.  ...

... The past five days were an experience of a lifetime! Here is a day by day breakdown of our climb Day 1: We left the keys hotel at 9am on Saturday, with our two guides Raymond and Samson, and two of our porters. We made the hour drive to the Marangu ...

... , a windsock, and a 10 x 10 foot concrete block "office" for immigration.  At the second airport, Seronera Airstrip, we saw impala at the side of the landing strip. Kogatende Air strip was the final stop.  It is the "airport" on the Tanzanian ...

... still on the runway!  Just as we turned off the tarmac, the plane touched down - Ah Tanzania!  I got settled in Arusha at a great hostel and met up with my friend Caolan who is working at the Rwanda Criminal Tribunal there.  He showed ...

We were able to relax at the hotel in Arusha for a day or two. This allowed us to do some laundry and drink the much needed beers as reward for our tough slogging. But we did need to switch beers. Tanzania produces 2 major brands: Kilimanjaro and ...

... nbsp; Next on the list, we looked for hotels that are not listed for tourism (it's half the price!).  I settled with the Arusha Crown Hotel, right in the middle of the town, new, and very nice - but reasonable since it's a "local" hotel as opposed to ...

... guess there was a hundred thousand flamingos in the lake...it was an amazing sight.  I also saw giraffe, zebra, hippos, impala, water buffalo, monkeys and many birds.  The density of wildlife was incredible, and the animals got very close to ...

... laze around in the hot afternoon sun. We saw many variety of animals on the Serengeti, including the hyena, warthog, gazelle, impala, jackal, vulture, cheetah , ostrich, dik dik, eland, waterbuck, and buffalo. The last place that we visited was the ...

... of predators- namely, the lion. Over the course of the day, we also saw ostriches, mongoose a la Rickitickitavi, water bucks, impala, warthogs and some very voyeuristic gray monkeys. We also witnessed the theft of a lunchbox and camera (from another ...

... 1 - Tarangire national park The first stop on the Safari was the Tarangire national park, after a long drive from Moshi via Arusha we arrived at the gate. We were in a cool Toyota safari land cruiser with two flaps on the roof which ...

... Leopard 2 Zebra ~30000,  Wildebeest ~2000, Thompsons Gazelle ~1000, Grants Gazelle ~700,  Impala ~500,  Baboons ~185,  Giraffe ~70,  Hippos ~50,  Vervet ...

... in to the shade.  They ate they wanted, and then one lion was there to protect the leftovers.  We saw a couple of impala very close and one of them started to approach where the lion was sleeping.  We could see it stop and realize a lion ...

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