Blogs from Tanzania, Africa - page 318

Hi again All is well here, thankfully, after almost dying on the rim of Ngorongoro crater. Ok, so I exagerate a little, but had a bit of a scary experience! Last weekend I went on a camping trip to Lake Manyara, the Serengeti & Ngorongoro crater. All the aforementioned places were stunning and we were really lucky with the different animals that we saw, without looking very hard. We saw quite a few lions....we sat for about 2 hours watching one hunt wildebeest, watched one run from a Maasai, and saw one extremely close up sleeping by the roadside. The sheer number of animals was amazing. The annual migration has just started also so we got to see lines and lines of wildebeest. The almost dying experience....all of the camping we did was very basic ... read more

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Just a quick note: I did send already an update including the 16th of June from Iringa (Tanzania), but it was just a quick one while at the internet cafee. The connections are usually very slow. I usually write our blog updates whenever I have electricity at a campsite and upload it including some pictures I have made smaller on my laptop the next time I have access to the internet. So don’t be surprised if the date of sending is later than the blog itself. All in all we are fine and healthy and full of good spirit. Thanks all our friends worldwide (!) to send us all your good wishes. Please excuse when we do not answer individually, as Internet Cafees in Africa are at yesterdays speed and it would take hours to ... read more

Sorry this entry was lost in the Travel Blog Crash.. But at least we can still enjoy the pictures ~Julie ... read more

So our days of building have come to an end. We left our village of Mvae last Friday and met up again with all the volunteers from the other camp and new volunteers who had just arrived in from Dar es Salaam. Had a fantastic night catching up with everyone before we all went our separate ways, even managed to make it to a night club which was basically a big barn with ALOT of strobe lighting! Great night had by everyone, though we were all a little tired on Saturday, our last day in Singida. It was very strange saying goodbye to people with whom we had lived in such close quarters for a month. Sunday morning at 5am we hauled ourselves to the bus station to take the most insane bus journey of my ... read more