The Charity Hotel
Travel Blogs from Arusha
Ol Doinyo Lengai , Volcano from hell
... with hippos showing of their yawn and spreading their dung using their tail as an propeller, there´s just no end to it…
Oh thats right! When I was 15 I had a dream, to fly hot air balloon over Serengeti, it took me some time but…balloon trip over Serengeti…Check ! and what a trip, just quietly gliding over the plain, spotting lions, hyenas zebras… well you get the picture… yes you ...
Back from the roof of Africa
... back pack one day, just because one of the porters hurt himself the day before. Then my guide advised me not to do it again. In order to save my energy to go up Mt Kilimanjaro. As you can see I am now having some chill out time by the swimming pool in my hotel. Next up-date will be hopefully in two days time, depending on what time I am back from my Safari experience. Take care and I will up-date you as soon as I can. ...
Shu'mata Camp 1
... do something tangible to help. The kids worked hard. They need to go to the Rich Levi paint school, but the attitude was there.
We crashed when we got back to Hatari, and canceled the schedule for the next day. The next morning we did some school and work. Sam got locked in the bathroom at the main lodge and I picked her up through the window. She was scared but could laugh about it afterwards. I could not stay at the lodge ...
And so we begin the trek
... against Germans at all, but he is the perfect example of a "Besser Wisser" someone that knows best every time. We were happy to stop for lunch after about 2 hours and enjoyed a small picnic. There are quite a few people on the path, so you tend to bump into each other along stops. We continued and the road was pretty steep as we just kept climbing. The one thing that amazed us from the start was the porters - these guys pretty much run up the mountain ...
Close encounter with a Leopard
We were told on a previous trip a Leopard had been seen walking through the camp and that there is the possibility of encounter others animals at night being located in the Serengeti without fences. A girl from another group overheard us and panicked. What! Leopards!
At 1am, I went to go the toilet around 100m away. On the way I shone my head torch around and right next to the men's toilet was 2 bright white beady eyes, I returned to use a tree ...