http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Tanzania en-us Wed, 11 Nov 09 16:18:58 +0000 Wed, 11 Nov 09 16:18:58 +0000 This past Friday we put together a girl's football match between the preform girls the class I teach the most and the form 1 girls. Well what a showdown it was. The competitive side of me came out in full force although I know absolutely nothing about coaching soccer but unfortunately the preform girls lost in a sudden death shootout. It was overwhelming to see how the girls responded to the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-451593.html The middle of October 2009 brought the end of my first term of this school year 2 teacherinservice days and Denia My sister came to visit me for a quick but wonderful 10 days during my week off from school and together we terrorized read photographed and sang to the Northern circuit National Parks of Tanzania. Denia arrived on a Thursday evening and we had a quiet night in together http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-451431.html In the center of Moshi there are many volunteers and tourists so seeing them on the street is very common. However when you go into the residential areas there is sometimes great excitement from the children on seeing a mzungu white foreigner. Most will automatically assume that you are a teacher and many wazungu the plural form of mzungu are called mwalimu teacher. Many of the ch http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-450701.html Kre alle verden overBeklager det har taget mig nsten 3 uger fr jeg fik taget mig sammen til at oprette en blog. Men nu har jeg fet fast internetforbindelse 64 KB per sekund svarer til det dialup modem vi brugte i 1995 s nu hber jeg p at vre lidt flittigere. Her er hvad der er sket so far.......Efter ikke at vre blevet hentet i lufthavnen lrdag aften troppede jeg op p Universitet http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-449148.html Four volunteers including myself went on safari to Ngorongoro Crater today and saw lots of great animals Elephants lions hippos zebra hyenas wildebeests buffalo gazelle ostrich crowned crane flamingos warthogs jackals baboons and a serval cat. Here are a few highlight pics http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Ngorongoro-Conservation-Area/blog-448106.html We landed in Kilimanjaro International Airport after Kenya Airport it was a paradise to land in big and nice airport. The air was stifling and it took time to use to it. The airport personal helped us to fix our tourist visa for Tanzania they were friendly and nice but some of them just wanted get money for nothing. We were staying in Arusha with our friends who have a fantastic place there. Th http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-447857.html Habari RafikiToday I will start publishing photos that I have taken from various spots in Tanzania. I will start off with a picture I took while on safari near Lake Eyasi on a visit to the Hadzabe tribe. I had heard contrasting opinions about visiting the Hadzabe whether it was in their best interest or not to have outside influences enter into their lives. After visiting I am not opposed t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-447230.html Hello all We arrived safe in Tanzania yesterday and got the ferry over to Zanzibar this morning. It's hard to describe how tired we are after the 4.30am start this morning 8 hour flight to Doha 1 hour transfer and the 5 and a half hour flight from Doha to Dar Es Salaam. We slept very little on the plane because Qatar airline was fantastic and provided around 1000 entertainment options FREE al http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Zanzibar-City/blog-446943.html Okay so as a follow up on my boastful I'm gonna climb Kili shit I would like to let everyone know that I admit defeat. I started off well got to 4000 and whilst looking at the amazing view hurt my ankle. It's my own fault really we were walking on basically just rocks and I should know by now that luck doesn't really cling to me.. so anyway our guide Richard told me I should go down as my a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Arusha/blog-446630.html Thirteen of us all packed into the 4x4 driving 45 minutes along winding bumpy roads skidding and sliding back and forth in the muddy ruts the whole way to Karatu. After spending two whole days in bed with stomach pains and achy blah I finally went to see the doctor yesterday. I brought two other kids from the children's village who were sick as well and with both of them on my lap and se http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Ngorongoro-Conservation-Area/blog-446622.html After a couple more days of long driving we arrived on the coast of Tanzania in Dar Es Salaam in order to get the ferry over to Zanzibar. Zanzibar was amaaaaaazing. We spent a night in Stonetown which is the main town on the island. It is full of narrow streets lined with touristy shops with people trying to drag you into them looking is free I give you good price hakuna matata... W http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Nungwi/blog-446301.html Our journey from Nairobi to Arusha Tanzania took hours and hours. The roads were AWFUL They were being resurfaced for miles and miles which meant that half of the road the parts that were finished were lovely and smooth and the other parts we were taken to a rough road alongside the main road which was basically just a rocky path. Inside the bus we were being thrown about all over the pla http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-446299.html being back in the village was great. i mean i was back less than a week but you know. duty calls. lets see. i got back in the village on tuesday sunday the car broke down and monday the car was full. stephanie decided to come with me so that was nice to have a friend along for the ride. i got back to my house and it was a mess. i dont mean anybody broke in. just dust was everywhere. and yes ruk http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-446266.html Today is a dark day as I perform that which I swore I would never do. I am blogging. It just sounds wrong. But I am far too lazy to respond to individual emails and messages so this was the easiest route.Do not fret I will keep things short. So join me on this magical adventure into the lowest form of written word wont you FYI this site will not allow me to do apostrophes so I have opted t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-445998.html I felt it was time to write a new blog entry now its been awhile. Wee still on Zanzibar and frankly we haven done too much the last couple of weeks. Well we did go on a little adventure the last few days but first things first.As I mentioned in an earlier blog entry we met some locals who helped us with everything from accomodation to swahili lessons Arif gave us lessons for a couple of hou http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/blog-445751.html Hi everyoneSo Zanzibar was a definite adventure. Me and Jason left at 6am on Saturday morning on a bus to Dar Es Salaam where we arrived just after the last ferry to the island had left so we had to stay a night in crap Dar at a hostel called the Jambo Inn. The Saturday night was pretty much just a boring layover until we could catch the first ferry in the morning to Stonetown.We arrived in Sto http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-445733.html Natural tidal turtle poolDuring our stay in Nungwi we took a stroll along the beach past the boat builders and came accross a sign advertising a natural aquarium. Our interest was peeked and after paying a small fee we entered an enclosure where 17 turtles of all sizes up to 100kg had been resqued from nets where they had been entangled and put into this tidal pool where they are kept safe and f http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Nungwi/blog-445724.html We schrijven deze blog vanuit een internetcafe in Arusha het toerisitisch centrum van Tanzania. Het veldwerk in Lushoto zit erop. De laatste week dat we er zaten was vrij mager op het gebied van water en elektriciteit. Door het aanhoudende droge seizoen was er weinig water in de rivieren waardoor ook de nationale watercentrales moeilijkheden hadden. Hierdoor zat het hele land zonder elektriciteit http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Arusha/blog-445502.html Langi LangiWe arrived at Langi Langi our waterfront resort in the north west of the island early afternoon where we were to spend the next seven night of our dive holiday. The water was crystal clear and came right under the restaurant deck. Dhows with sunset cruises were intermingled with the fishing boats at anchor in the water at high tide. As the sun slowly sank into the distant horizon the o http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Nungwi/blog-445411.html Zanzibar here we comeHaving previously joined a number of exotic diving holidays with Pro Dive in Port Elizabeth South Africa it was with excitement that our trip to Zanzibar loomed. This time I was going with my family Julie my wife and Emma my thirteen year old daughter to experience the fun of the spice island off Tanzania.Leaving Port Elizabeth on Friday we were obliged to stay in a friendl http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Nungwi/blog-445122.html