Blogs from Tanzania, Africa - page 315

zanzibar is sick enough still, when we were landing i looked down on the beaches and palm trees and blue water and was like this place is like a prostitute...nice (said in a borat accent) when u first get here its a bit diff., the streets are narrow and its alley after alley of 3 storey indian/arabic style buildings, very nice and crowded, were staying at a budget place but it is stopless and more than we need but most of all the head of the hostel is so accomadating and is constantly looking after us our first day we wondered around stone town where ur bound to get lost, we did some museums but as many of u know i'd rather gobble a nut than go to a muesum but i thought of my bro ... read more

This last week, we took a small, family vacation to Peponi Beach. John had a week off in between the campaigns and starting a new quarter at the school, so we took advantage of the opportunity to have some family time. The beach is absolutely beautiful. Even better, there were only two other families at the beach, so we basically had the whole place to ourselves. We stayed in what they called a "family banda". It was a small, two room thatched hut. The floors were cement and the walls were half cement/half thatch. Daniel loved it and kept calling it out new house. :) Every morning we woke up, the kids asked about the water. Daniel would ask if the water was still there(he was afraid it would disappear over night.) and Abby would simple ... read more

Mambo! Yep mum - sorry - I'm vegetarian again. If you look at the last picture here then it may help you understand why. Actually, all the current volunteers have gone veggie. I'm not even sure you would call the stuff meat. Getting really quite bored of the food here. Beans, peas, bananas, avocados, chipatis, rice, potatoes and pasta. Think that covers the menu. Yum! I'm sure you're all jealous. This is why for Helen & Mike's last night we treated ourselves and went to a 'Western' restaurant. It was full of Mzungus. Patrick (our African volunteer coordinator) said he felt out of place! I haven't said too much about the volunteer house partly because it's crazy. We would be way better than Big Brother. Between the staff and the volunteers there is always something ... read more

Pictures from my mini-vacation to Dar Es Salaam and Zanzibar Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar » Stone Town By MadeleineJune 30th 2007My mini-vacation to Dar and ZanzibarMACHere are a bunch of pictures from my little mini-vacation to Dar Es Salaam and Zanzibar, plus a little safari.... read more

url='/Videos/4208.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4208.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Kilimanjaro Children's Foundation After a busy weeked on Zanzibar Island I arrived back at Kilimanjaro Airport to meet Edward Lazaro (a.k.a Teacher) and begin my work with his school in Njoro village near Moshi. For those of you who do not know, two parents from North Shore climbed Kili several summers ago and learned of a school run by their porter in nearby Njoro village. UIpon seeing the state of the school they decided they wanted to help, and now nearly 4 year later a NGo has been created and property for a new school has been purchased. The NGO is called Kilimanjaro Childrens Foundation. Part of the reason for my visit over the next four days is to lay out a trip for next summer where 20 or so members of the North ... read more