http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Tanzania , Zanzibar , Kendwa en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:52:47 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:52:47 +0000 After two weeks of waking up before the sun to carry sloshing 18litre buckets of water on our heads to fill the big blue water bucket after calluses and blood blisters and even a scorpion bite incurred as what was an empty field in the Shamba countryside became a building Zanzibar was what most would dfine as paradise pristine white beaches and clear turquoise ocean groves of palm trees wavi http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-422932.html July 1st we arrived at a campsite just outside Dar es Salaam called Mikadi Beach. After a very long day in the truck I walked straight into the Indian Ocean still wearing my clothes. The campsite was one of my favorites sandy beach palm trees and great views of the sunrise. It was a little piece of heaven.July 2nd we took the express ferry to Zanzibar. I sat inside the ferry got really se http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-422016.html Hi allI had a really great time in Zanzibar. Got the bus at 7am on Friday feeling very tierd and slightly hungover from the night before. Arrived at Dar es Saalam at 3.30pm the last ferry to Zanzibar left at 4pm so it was a mad rush to get in a taxi and then buy the ferry tickets. I managed to get there with 10 minutes to spare and thew up on the 2hr crossing Eventually made it to Kendwa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-403541.html A couple misc notes.First a word to the seniors and the supersuper seniors at FM fear not I think I'll be at your graduation. I'll be the one with a box of tissues balling my eyes out. Second a shoutout to Eagles Nest I miss everybody a ton. Glad to hear you are enjoying the blog and hopefully you are learning some stuff. I hope all the 5th graders are having a great spring and excited a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-389933.html We were on our Tanzanian safari when we celebrated our oneyear anniversary of being on the African continent. We can hardly believe that we have been travelling for this long and that a year has passed already However the state of our clothes attests to our length of travel as they are certainly worse for wear our packs are filthy and our shoes starting to fall apart I guess it is time to http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-373529.html Hello againI suppose I should start from last Monday leading right untill this moment in this little internet cafe actually overlooking the beachI went to KiliKids as they were having their offical christmas party on the Monday for a couple of hours before doing my packing and last minute bits and bobs. It was great to see the kids one last time but what I forgot to mention before which I think http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-357906.html After breakfast toast again and fruit I boarded a large dhow to go snorkelling I sat near the bow and lappd up the weak rays it was cloudy Soon we were gliding along not far from the short with a breeze in my hair. we stopped to pick up flippers and a mask and then headed to the island Mnemba which we would be snorkelling off. All 11 we arrived at what looked like paradise white sandy b http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-354444.html Awoke to thesound of rain and went to the rooftop restaurant for breakfast It was very grey where we were headed so I was prepared for dissappointment. However by the time we had left to walk to the matatu it had stopped and the sun was peeping out.The drive was about 2 hours long through little towns and villages and lush green vegetation. It is a really beautiful and bountiful island. Because http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-354438.html My Friends and FamilyJambo It's been too long I'm sure by now you're nearly all convinced that I've been spending the past 3 months in the heart of East Africa serving volunteering and selflessly offering my love to anyone who will take it. Friends I hate to tell ya this but you've been sucked in to some sweet deception In reality only 3 days ago I was lying on the powdery white beaches of http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-349883.html On the 9th September after about 10 days of hectic waking up Gestapo style and having the tents down breakfast out dishes washed then queuing single file to be hosed down and de loused before we got back on the van at 6am we set off for a nice relaxing few days on the island of Zanzibar which is a two and a half hour ferry ride from the port of Dar Es Salaam Tanzania.We were crammed into the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-329981.html sfds http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-308658.html Etter at opphaldet i Mbulu vart avslutta litt tidlegare enn planlagt fekk eg tid til aa stikke til Zanzibar. Eg moette opp paa kaien ein halvtime foer avreise og fann ut at reservasjonen min ikkje var gyldig. Eg vart dregen med rundt overalt for aa finn billett og midt i alt stresset vart eg massiv svindla. Eg hadde mi fumme hyre med aa foelgje med paa passet mitt og foer eg visste ordet av det h http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-299673.html hi all Well this should come as no surprise to anyone but I somehow got malaria while relaxing on this tropical paradise I'm fine now but I was really feeling like shit for a little while there I got to see the inside of an african hospital firsthand while hooked up to an IV drip... oh MAN was that ever an experience hahah The doctor actually even let me look at the malaria under the micr http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-288904.html Yes that's right everyone we are now in Zanzibar It is amazing. We arrived here last Thursday after a couple days in Dar Es Salaam which everyone said is just awful but we didn't find it too bad at all. Some aggressive touts but that was about it. We ate at a real SUBWAY restaurant hahah which was a great treat. We got an afternoon ferry across the ocean to Zanzibar Thursday afternoon and it w http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-286540.html Hey everyoneSorry no images for this one as I hadn't actually intended on writing a blog journal at this point in time.Alot has transpired since my last message some good some bad and some observational. Hmmm which to start off with. We'll lead off with bad. A few days after my last message I fell ill. Not a little bit ill not sort of ill but completely knocked off my feet ill. The natural te http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-285108.html After spending the night at a Masai campground near Chitimba where we had the best group meal on the trip so far we crossed the Tanzanian border and headed towards Dar es Salaam. The capital of Tanzania in everything but name Dar as it is affectionately known is a fairly large city that is hot dusty dirty full of traffic and incredibly humid despite being right next to the Indian Ocean.T http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-239682.html FRENCHAprs Mombasa on a pris la direction de la Tanzaniehellip Dernire tape. On est arriv la frontire vers les 5 heures de lrsquoaprsmidi aprs plusieurs heures de bodaboda... On a commenc par changer tous nos shillings kenyans en shillings tanzanien... juste temps pour entendre lrsquoofficier des douanes cot Tanzanie nous dire quelques minutes plus tard qursquoil nrsquoa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-218514.html From Arusha we caught a bus across to Dar es Salaam on the coast. This was our first good look at the Tanzanian countryside outside of National Parks. Compared to the other Eastern African countries we've been in Tanzania is much hotter drier and dustier with big open plains and rocky hills dry scrubby brush and boulders. Which makes it all the more impressive when you suddenly notice Mt Kilim http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-210607.html