Natural tidal turtle pool During our stay in Nungwi we took a stroll along the beach past the boat builders and came accross a sign advertising a natural aquarium. Our interest was peeked and after paying a small fee we entered an enclosure where 17 turtles of all sizes up to 100kg had been resqued from nets where they had been entangled and put into this tidal pool where they are kept safe and fed. We were able to swim with teh which was an awesome experience, you can even hold onto their shells and be towed along the surface. Masks [View Full Entry]

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So Alice and I have been here in Zanzibar on the north-west coast since wednesday and it's absolutely brilliant! It's pure paradise. I love it ! The sea is so blue/green and the sand is so white, it's like flour. The days we've had here have been amazing.. We live in a small hut with 2 double beds and a bathroom with flushing toilet and a shower! The shower is amazing after only using buckets for the past 6 weeks unfortunatly there was only luke warm water the first night so it's been freezing cold showers ever since. We've spent a [View Full Entry]

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Langi Langi We arrived at Langi Langi, our waterfront resort in the north west of the island early afternoon where we were to spend the next seven night of our dive holiday. The water was crystal clear and came right under the restaurant deck. Dhows with sunset cruises were intermingled with the fishing boats at anchor in the water at high tide. As the sun slowly sank into the distant horizon the orange light of the sunset painted the scene the exotic pictures that I had imagined before this trip. The water was like glass and the gentle lapping of the [View Full Entry]

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Zanzibar here we come Having previously joined a number of exotic diving holidays with Pro Dive in Port Elizabeth, South Africa it was with excitement that our trip to Zanzibar loomed. This time I was going with my family, Julie my wife and Emma, my thirteen year old daughter to experience the fun of the spice island off Tanzania. Leaving Port Elizabeth on Friday we were obliged to stay in a friendly B&B overnight in J’berg due to our early morning flight to Zanzibar. 1-Time flight was not the most confident building exercise one would want especially for nervous air passengers. [View Full Entry]

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9/9 - 18/9 Our 7 hour bus trip from Arusha to the coast was going relatively smoothly (well, as much as is possible in Tanzania …lots of unsurfaced roads, driving on the other side for no apparent reason and hair raising overtaking) until just outside Tanga when the bus gave up the ghost. We waited for a while but lost faith in the guy wielding a rusty looking wrench so decided to jump on a dala dala - a kind of mini-bus that drives even more crazily than the main buses and takes anything that breathes - ie people, chicken, goats… [View Full Entry]

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After a couple more days of long driving, we arrived on the coast of Tanzania in Dar Es Salaam in order to get the ferry over to Zanzibar. Zanzibar was amaaaaaazing. We spent a night in Stonetown, which is the main town on the island. It is full of narrow streets lined with touristy shops, with people trying to drag you into them - "looking is free" "I give you good price" "hakuna matata"... We had dinner at a food market right by the sea, which was incredible - around 50 food stalls selling lots of different foods. We tried these [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone !!! So i am back in Dar Es Salaam and in an internet cafe that is extreemly slow but because I love you guys so much i decided to update all about my vacation in Zanzibar and about my upcoming adventures. I believe i stopped at us hanging out in Kendwa. Emily and I decided to stay a second night in Kendwa and go snorkeling in what we were told is the most beautiful area to snorkel on the island. As we were walking the streets a lady came up to us and showed us a business card and [View Full Entry]

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mambo friends!! got to be quick as usual coz the computers in Africa are rubbish. so... i made it to Africa... finally! when i arrived in dar i was told that my visa was about to expire (a mix up with the way they worked on my part...hmm...a slight waste of 50 quid), so i had to spend ages going to the cash point, then converting the Tanzania shillings into us dollars (coz thats the only currency they would take for visas!) then going back to immigration to sort it all out. grrr. finally sorted it out and headed to the [View Full Entry]

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Monday morning, Luc and I caught a bus from Moshi to Dar Es Salaam. It left around six o'clock in the morning and didn't arrive in Dar until around 2pm. Eight hours on the bus across one of Africa's bigger countries was not too comfortable but not one of the worst journeys I have been on during my time in Africa. Luc found it very hard despite the fact she was asleep for the majority of it. Upon arriving in Dar we were greeted by lots and lots of taxi drivers all offering the "many cheapest price" to the ferry for [View Full Entry]

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Our apologies for not getting a post up sooner. We spent the last week on the island of Zanzibar and then safari'ing through the Maasai Mara. In this post I've included pictures from our island vacation. We rented a bungalow on a pristine sandy beach for about $35 US dollars a night, and spent our days snorkeling, getting sun burned, and being lazy. [View Full Entry]

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