We left early in the morning on Saturday for Serengeti National Park, the usual place to which people go for Tanzanian safaris. Entering the park was the hardest part because we needed to register our cars (you buy passes in advance) and they are registered with a credit card. But wait! The credit card card machine didn't work. So the whole process took a little bit longer than it should have. Then we went into the park. Upon entering the Serengeti, we arrived in Zebraland. We literally just saw zebra after zebra after zebra. Then we entered Gazelleland, then Impalaland. Impalaland [View Full Entry]

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Hi there! All we can say is that Safari in the Serengeti, Arusha National Park, Lake Manyara and the Ngorongoro Crater was incredible! We did a camping safari which was a lot of fun! And yes, all of the pictures we posted below we did actually take ourselves! We were fortunate, and got to see what they call the Big Five - lions, cheetahs, elephants, a black rhino with a youngster and many, many buffalo. We also saw a lot of baby animals! Camping in the serengeti during the full moon was breath taking! Hope you enjoy the pics! We have [View Full Entry]

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July 9, 10, 2008 SERENGETI, Tanzania This was a very long day in the car as we drove over 9 hours from Masi-Mara south and through West Mara, and into Tanzania as we made our way to the Kensington Camp in the Serengeti ( Masai for “endless plain” ) for some more game viewing. It would be hard to explain the road conditions for most of the trip !!! You wouldn’t believe it if I was able to explain anyway. ( and this is a main road ). The Serengeti ecosystem includes the Masai Mara in Kenya and the Serengeti and [View Full Entry]

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We had an early game drive and watched the sun come up over the Serengeti. Magic! It’s so exciting to accidentally find a pride of lions or a hippo walking across the road. Then we hit the road back to Arusha. Days on the road are actually harder than you would think. The roads are ridiculously bumpy, the drivers concentrate constantly on avoiding potholes, they are always looking for other peoples brake marks and the locals drive like maniacs. Heaps of people said to me before I left that the biggest risk about coming to Africa is being in a car [View Full Entry]

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We are now in Morocco. After we left Arusha, following the safari, we went to Zanzibar. The island was in the middle of a bit of a power crisis... well there was no power, on the whole island, save some generators. It seems that the "fuel crisis" is an excuse to drive up prices everywhere...and for everything. This is understandable in Zanzibar because all of the generators run on fuel. Needless to say, internet was a nightmare. From a selfish tourists point of view it was kinda neat, with all of Zanzibar's incredible history, arabic-style houses intriquitly carved doors and indian/oriental [View Full Entry]

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(Side note: We're in Zanzibar now and there is no electricity on the island...there hasn't been for weeks. The subsea electrical cables broke...everything's on generators and internet is verrrrry slowwww...don't think we'll be eating meat for a while! Will upload rest of Serengeti pics in London airport) Nothing could have prepared us for the Serengeti, it was incrediable. Serengeti is the Maasai word for endless plain, and it seemingly goes on forever. Scattered around the the plains are Kopjes. Kopjes are granite rock outcrops that burst out of the ground a couple of million years ago as lava. Once the volcanoes [View Full Entry]

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Here are a few more pictures of our Serengeti adventure... [View Full Entry]

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Just a few more pics [View Full Entry]

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Let me just start out by saying what an AMAZING experience safari was! I arrived off the bus in Arusha and I was immediately swarmed by about 18-20 men trying to direct me to a hotel/give me a free taxi ride/ protect me from the others, who knows...they were all talking at once so it is difficult to say, but ultimately they want to get you alone for a few minutes so that they can sell you a safari at a ridiculous amount. I attached myself to the only other foreigners on the bus- a couple from Holland. We were then [View Full Entry]

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Nairobi, Kenya was described as a very scary place in all of the travel books, but we found it to be easy to navigate and the people helpful. Tourists still seemed to be scarce due to the low season and the politcal unrest (which was mainly to the west of Nairobi and is on hold)...which we found to be very helpful in negotiating prices. We arrived from the paradise of the Seychelle Islands expecting a huge let-down, but Kenya and Tanzania have been wonderfully amazing. We got to Nairobi in late afternoon just to see a bright orange sunset over the [View Full Entry]

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