Q Bar Tanzania

A family of 6 ready for our year off which will lead us through Southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, and back to Canada... We are fortunate to have the opportunity of a life time to travel - once more - for a ...

... ;"wait here" while she pushed her way into the crowded ticket office and managed to get us tickets for a bit of a premium (Tanzania's version of scalped tickets, I suppose).  When we left Jessica to go on safari, as Kyle arrived, we were reluctant to ...

... fun! Send - off party: Last weekend, my friend, Magda and I went to Kilembero with my Mama to attend a send-off party.  In Tanzania, a bride has a send-off party before she is sent to be married.  In Swahili, a man 'gets married' and a woman 'is ...

... ; Electricity & water. In England, where the weather is unpredictable, we take electricity & running water for granted. In Tanzania, electricity & water supplies are like the English weather. During 1992-93, my second year as a teacher at IST, ...

... ; I can see myself coming back here someday.  If any of you ever thought of travelling abroad, and perhaps even to Africa, Tanzania is the place to start.  it's a great intro the rest of Africa and I can say whole heartedly that you ...

... are so many exotic and evocative place names that add to the country's lustre.  Zanzibar, Kilimanjaro, Serengeti, Usambara, even Tanzania itself, all roll off the tongue and conjour up amazing images. Tanzania has an interesting past, with periods ...

... , we were moved to another tour.  In other words, we left our "Kenya group" (who, incidentally, also moved on to Tanzania) and joined a completely new tour with a completely different tour company.  This was not cool.  In the end, I ...

... time to pack our bags and leave Malawi, not without feeling somehow sorry that our time in this wonderful country was up already. But Tanzania was waiting and we were heading to Dar Es Salaam to meet our friend Alex there in a few days time. Entering the ...

Ater we left behind the beautiful views, and not so beautiful ants, of Lake Malawi, we entered Tanzania with everyone excited about one place in particular, Zanzibar. It took a couple of bush camps to get to Dar Es Saalam from the border, with a brief ...

... a new group--it is larger now (16 passengers instead of 10) and most people are in their mid-twenties.  Immediately our Tanzania experience is different from the Kenya leg because the group is younger, louder.  It is a good time--just a ...

... .  Aie yah!  Uh hello, I can barely handle Mia and Emma - let alone a class of 60+ kids from Tanzania.  Whatebba whatebba!  Classroom management has become my #1 challenge in this placement - even ahead of the language barrier.  ...

... by the Pete Docherty song. It was behind a large group of clouds, but you could just make out the tip. The roads in Tanzania are not that safe. Mainly because the other drivers seemed to drive at ramming speed. Later we arrived at Arusha Snake Park ...

... US$1 but rather closer to US$20. Rip! Nice town but glad we decided to head straight up to the beaches. Went to a bar/restaurant recommended to us by the lads... needless to say we were surprised to find they didn't serve alcohol and a nice ...

... con cocodrilos si no le entro. En fin, pues ya se va a acabar la pila así que aquí voy a dejar esto, hoy entré a Tanzania y nos toca un día completo de camión para llegar a Iringa y mañana otra super manejada para llegar a Dar-es-Salaam y de ...

... and the first night together with some of the new crew joining. The following day we headed towards the border with Tanzania and saw an almost instant change in the landscape. Whereas Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya had been very green the southern parts ...

... one of the more shocking differences from the States ... corporal punishment.  Turns out that when the Brits colonized Tanzania, they introduced their school system, which included physical beatings.  This was the first week I witnessed such ...

... World Heritage Site, we sank a couple of beers with ease whilst whallowing in the sofas.  If I ever go back to Tanzania, I will definitely spend a couple of nights in this place - truely awesome. Incredibly the beers were the same price as those we ...

... drives to come. As boring as a bus ride is, there really is no better way to see the local villages within Tanzania. The first spotting of a masai warrior, hand built mud houses, the many african children waving as we passed by, the african ...