I’m sat on a rickety wooden lounger on the beach held together by twine and rope. The heat of the day has finally relented and an enormous glowing ball of fire is making its way across the sky soon to meet the flat horizon of the warm Indian Ocean. My toes play in the powder white sand and as the wind rustles the palms and the local ladies return from their day of fishing seaweed, hauling huge bundles of it behind them, a dhow cuts through the sunset like a giant shark’s fin. Welcome to Zanzibar. Fumba Let’s pretend it’s January [View Full Entry]

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Murray’s parents have spent 3 weeks with us. We spent the first week looking around Nairobi, with a day trip to the edge of the Rift Valley escarpment with its breathtaking view and then on to Nakuru National Park for rhinos and flamingoes. The second week we spent in Zanzibar, Tanzania. We started by exploring Stone Town’s maze of streets and stalls, and taking photos of the intricately carved doors. We stayed at St Monica’s guest house, adjacent to an Anglican church built on the site of the slave market at the time the slave trade was abolished in 1870’s. It [View Full Entry]

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A few of the group, me included left Nungwi early in the morning so that we could visit the agricultural villages of Kizimbani and Kindichi on the way. Driving through the island we have always been aware of the variety of flora and fauna but until today did not know what any of it actually was. The various plants and trees that carpet the island turned out to be a real feast for the senses. A huge variety of spices are grown here on the island such as cardamon, cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper, cloves, turmeric, vanilla and curry leaves. Alongside these bananas, [View Full Entry]

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Last full day in Zanzibar we decided to spend it on our private beach in front of our bungalows. I had got quite badly sunburnt the day before (wetsuit tan, it looked like I was wearing thigh high red leather boots) so had to try to cover my lower legs which proved to be quite difficult. Nick as usual was able to stay out in the sun all day. The water was so clear and warm it was great. The other guys got back from diving so it was round two of teaching Jamie how to swim. We got the [View Full Entry]

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After a really good nights sleep I was up early to go snorkeling. I have never been snorkeling before, and in fact have never been in the sea out of my depth before so I didn't know how much I was going to enjoy it. The first task was to get the right size of mask and flippers. Something which took forever and I couldn't quite understand how I was meant to know if the mask fitted unless I put my head in the water to see whether it would leak. Oh well, I chose one and off we went. We [View Full Entry]

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Hey All! wanna share with you my travels of Zanzibar sometime gone by....stayed in the Island for a week and loved every bit of it.People in Zanzibar are really friendly! this makes me wanna plan a visit back to the Island soon...Am Kenyan by birth and despite me wandering in the city and trying to blend in to look like the locals, they were quick to point me out as being a visitor to their Island much to my amusement, as everywhere i went there were phrases of "Karibu Zanzibar".i felt welcome and safe throughout the week i stayed there. I [View Full Entry]

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After the best nights sleep since arriving in Africa (because we upgraded to a 4*bungalow over the sea pictures later) we got up early to go diving. We were joined by Michelle, Deb and Bernie and we set off for our first dive site Leven banks. The sea was a bit rough and when we got in the current was really strong. We were meant to drop down a 30mtr wall but could not make it to the edge because the current was so strong. The next dive site was closer to the shore but it took a while to get [View Full Entry]

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At 8:00am a small convoy of taxis came to pick us up at the camp site to take us to the foot ferry. Somehow I drew the short straw and was squashed into the smallest cab with three others and all our rucksacks. The cab was the size of a mini and had plastic seat covers which helpfully added to the enjoyable ride by making us stick to our seats with sweat - nice!!! We arrived at the foot ferry and what a sight it was. As we made our way through the crowds we just about made it onto the [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone from Zanzibar, Tanzania. As expected, internet connections are few and far between in East Africa, and when you get your hands on one, it is usually rather slow :-( We have been going at a real breakneck speed for the last two weeks since our tour with Absolute Africa started. This is the only leg of our world tour that we are doing via package and we are still getting to grips with group travel, and the speed at which the tour is running. We were really surprised on day 1 to find our truck roll up completely empty, [View Full Entry]

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So many photos, so little time... [View Full Entry]

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