Blogs from Tanzania, Africa - page 367

I got off the train. And was approached by some one offering a taxi ride. I had a rough idea of the price, but wasn’t exactly sure how much. 15000 Shillings was the first price I was given. I said that I had been told it was 5000. They said okay then 12. This was going to be a hard bargaining process. Next I said that I had heard that the price was 5 and that I was not prepared to pay more than 5. They reduced the price to 10 I walked off, at which point they started to follow, confirming the fact they were trying to over charge me. I offered 6 The guy said that the place I was trying to get to was over 5 km away. My reply to this was ... read more

The girls left Lake Malawi a day ahead of me so I took off by myself to cross the border to Tanzania. The boat that took me from Mayoka Village to the town was a bit late so I had to pay a Mini Bus driver a few extra dollars to leave the bay area with his bus only 60% full (they do not leave a station until they have filled their van). I did this so I could get to Mzuzu sooner vs. later because I had to get another minibus from Mzuzu to the border (which closes at 5pm). In Mzuzu, I jumped into a mini bus which was packed in with what felt like 80 people. After 3.5 hours, we made it to a small town where I had to switch to another ... read more

Some people say that when it comes to Africa, the only positive thing to sy about it is the animals, so to help test the theory we went on safari, and safari and safari. Heading back into Kenya from Uganda we visited Lake Nakuru National Park in the Rift Valley. Flamingos filled the salt lake in their thousands and we were lucky enough to see elephants, baboons, zebra, pelicans, worthog, waterbuck, bush pigs, giraffe, impalas and rhino just on our first day. We bushed camped in the middle of the park at night surrounded by a colony of baboons. Just as we were going to bed I shone our flashlight into the darkness of the bush. The eyes of a few hyenas reflected back at me. In the middle of the night the hyenas moved into ... read more

i was invited to a birthday party today for a guy at work so i'm going there. thats starts around 5 or 6 so i need to leave around 430 and still have to go to the grocery store to get some beer or soda for the party. last night i went out with the three danish girls that i work with, another danish girl, two swedish guys and an african guy from school who got himself invited (despite my wishes because he doesnt pay for anything ((mostly because he cant but still wants to hang out) and i think that spending all day with him is quite enough time. it was fun although towards the end there were many prostitutes in the place so it was kinda gross. the swedish guys just arrived thursday at ... read more

went to the beach on sunday with the three swedish people...they are really nice and good to hang out with....to get to the beach which i could not find you take: the daladala (20 cents) followed by a ferry to the other side of the bay (12 cents) followed by either another daladala (20 cents) or taxi ride ($3 divided by the number of people so four)....then you pay for a little hut/shelter thing ($2) and then you have a nearly deserted beach on the indian ocean....warm was warm but still nice....came back and watched the finnish-swedish hockey game...maria, one of the swedes, was very excited the other two not a big deal. on monday started teaching english. they just threw me into a class of about 12 with another "teacher" to translate into swahili. days ... read more