Blogs from Mwanza, North, Tanzania, Africa - page 8

well colin has been keeping the countdown to safari on track, and today theres only 3 days left! ahhh so exciting. first thing wednesday morning, look out! 5 days on safari, then 4 in zanzibar lying on the beach and checking out stone town, then its home again! i can't believe we'll be home in 12 days. time sure flies when you're having fun. altho i can't say its been all fun, kinda boring back in teh village. but only one more day there so it won't be too bad. so we've been having a good time in mwanza. jane and i went to the casino on friday night, she won 40 bucks, i lost 25. not bad i guess. but Ihave a big problem! None of the ATMs are working today! And i have very ... read more

well we had an excellent few days here in mwanza. it was nice to get away from the village and see some action for a few days! haha but it wasn't all vacation, we did have a meeting with AMREF yesterday about setting up our HIV/AIDS peer education group. we're hoping to get enough $$ together to send a few people from the village to Dar Es Salaam (capital of Tanzania, 30hrs by train) for 4 weeks of training so they can return to Nyamuswa and focus on counselling and educating the people there. There are so many rural areas that just don't have the resources to help all the people in need. But most of the people would like such a thing to happen. so we'll see what we can manage. hopefully this is something ... read more

Nice flight over the pond to London. Got to spend most of the day in london which was great. just kinda walked around a bit, saw the highlights (picadilly circus, trafalgar square, the thames, big ben, the eye, etc) then back on the flight to nairobi overnight. got to nairobi, managed to get our bags transferred to precision air for our flight to mwanza. erin and addys bags, however, didn't make the final cut. as of right now addy has her bag but erin still has nothing. so we are staying another night in mwanza to see if they show up tomorrow. fingers crossed! we flew from nairobi to killimanjaro (i don't know how to spell that haha) and we saw hte mountain behind some clouds. itw as crazy! not much to do here in mwanza, ... read more

We arrived in Mwanza having been told by the Safari company that there was a Hydrofoil across Lake Victoria. I didn't believe this for a minute, but the lonely planet did say that there were boats across to Uganda. When we got there we walked to the Lake and luckily met a very nice guy from Rwanda. He spoke very good English which wasn't very common in Tanzania and also turned out to be finding out about boats to Port Bell, Uganda. He explained that there weren't any ferries since the ferry (MV Victoria) sank a few years ago (after my 2001 guide book) - I then remembered the news story. Since Lake Victoria was land locked there was no way to get another boat there easily and a new one would have to be built ... read more