hey, i was going to head back to dar es salaam and go up and check out mt kilimanjaro and do a safari, but i feel like it would be chickening out, also it is recomended to visit mozambique in may to july which is when i would be going through, so i am going to get the bike. in this way i will get a good taste of things and skip out on things that have already been tasted! no other real news... reading books and sitting around and being a bum, jasper [View Full Entry]

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hello, i have been socked in out on the east coast these past day by heavy rain and foul weather generally. jambiani is a small village where once grand european hotels stood along the coast and the powder white sand but now have been reduced to crumbling wrecks. when it rains, which it has done every day, the sand turns to mud and the locals get wet and i run for cover. in the morning a spooky blanket of mist makes walking through ancient village ruins of goats and weather beaten women like something from a dream and every morning i [View Full Entry]

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17.04.2008 Pemba to Zanzibar Yesterday, was a day of waiting. We packed our final personal items, packed our stuff, and waited for the minibus to take us to the airport. There is a major fuel shortage in Pemba and so we all had to go into one minibus. Stuart and Emma, (our managers) were flying out first, so the rest of us waited in the Old Mission Lodge. We ate some chapatis and strange spring rolls while waiting for our flights. The Zanair let410 landed gracefully but late, on 5000ft long runway and rolled out. The sun was low in the [View Full Entry]

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hey, i have no big plans, just bumming around on zanzibar. yesterday i took a long ride out to the east coast, which is where i am now. jambiani. i arrived in the evening and walked down the beach in very fine powder white sand and a man with the sand on his face took me to a house that he rents out. it is a luxury apartment ashram style four big rooms of weird old painted cement and a thatched roof and a stove. it is very nice and very cheap because of the season, right on the beach with [View Full Entry]

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hey, i will look into a safari and the mountain climb. last night hassan took me out on the town with his school friend and his girlfriend. we sat in the park as the sun went down in the middle of town, this is where all of the young kids come on the weekend to hang out. everyone eats ice cream and fish and drinks soda and laughs and runs around from group to group shaking hands. muslim cool kids, muslim milk not beer on the weekend and still bigger smiles then beered up youth of home. very straight forward love [View Full Entry]

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hey, yesterday when i woke up i went to meet hassan, my friend from the ferry, early at 8am down in stone town by the marketplace. he was there when i got there wearing a fez already ready to go so we took off on a dala-dala mini bus across the island east to his village of makunduchi. he was eager for me to see where he lives and what he does in the day, and to meet his family and friends. we jumped crammed into the back of a sawed off van with twenty barefoot men and twenty masked woman [View Full Entry]

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there are quite a few other travellers on the island of zanzibar and along with them quite a few things catering specifically to tourism. wandering around strange parts of stone town you bump into other travellers doing the same every so often. i am about to meet my friend from the ferry ride over. he is coming to this internet cafe to pick me up and take me who knows where! everyone has a cell phone here, but no one can afford to use it for more than about 10 seconds per call, so i said it was me and [View Full Entry]

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Ein Wort fuer alle, die ein bisschen Apfelsuechtig sind. Falls ihr vor habt nach Tansania zu reisen und es bisher nicht getan habt, weil es hier vermutlich keine Aepfel gibt, dann sei euch gesagt: Es gibt sie tatsaechlich nicht bzw nur spaerlich und nicht kaufenswert, aber man vergisst hier ganz schnell die Existens von Aepfeln, da die Fuelle des paradisischen Obstkorbes kein Ende zu nehmen scheint (Ich, Franziska, habe mir nicht vorstellen wollen, 6 Wochen ohne einen Apfel zu sein - es ist nicht so, dass ich diesen Zustand in Dtl. beibehalten moechte!). Ananas so suess wie aus der Dose, hunde [View Full Entry]

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hey, i have been just walking about in stone town and staying up in the treefort built on the beach at the house i am staying, and going through some funny books left behind by others. there is a fridge stocked with soda's and a tally system that i have been utilizing. also, a "bread" shop just up the road, which is more of a small stone room full of odd buns. the house is a fifteen minute ride by dala-dala from stone town, most days i wake up very early and go out onto the beach at low tide [View Full Entry]

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Sansibar - Ohoho - Sansibar -Ohoh - Allemann in de Sansibar - in de Sansibar - in de Sansibar Vater Rhein und Mama Afrika Sansibar - Ohoho - Sansibar -Ohoh - Allemann in de Sansibar - Alle in de Sansibar! Allemann in de Sansibar unsere Reise endet nun in beschaulichen, schoenen, sonnigen und warmen, palmen- und weissem Sand gesaeumten Sansibar. Sansibar ist sehr muslimisch gepraegt und erinnert im Vergleich zum restlichen tansania an nordafrikanische Staaten. Viele Frauen sind bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verschleiert. Auch tragen sie keine Kinder auf dem Ruecken oder Diverses auf dem [View Full Entry]

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