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Africa » Tanzania » North » Lake Manyara September 15th 2019

Unfortunately, I have had terminal (for me) problems using this site and in particular, uploading photos. There’s only so much time you can devote to solving problems or waiting for a solution from admin when traveling, so I have moved the blog over to WordPress.com. Maybe we’ll meet over there? WordPress Username: martinfromoz Blog Title: Africa 2019... read more

Africa » Tanzania » North » Lake Manyara September 12th 2019

Arrived back in Mto wa Mbu on Sunday evening from Moshi after an absence of 3 years since our first time here. It seems largely unchanged apart from a new bank, a roadside coffee cart where you can get real coffee (catering to the safari crowd) and a huge new upmarket service station & restaurant/bar with outdoor tables on a fresh, green (wait for it,,,,) LAWN! Both of these last two cater for the safari crowd and a few well-heeled locals, as their prices are out of the reach of most of the people here. Maybe now we’ll see some safari-types come out from behind the gates of their lodges? (We KNOW you’re in there!). We tried out the restaurant at the servo. We are living back in the same house as last time. It’s in ... read more
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Africa » Tanzania » North September 7th 2019

We’ve spent the past two days based in Moshi before heading out to Mto wa Mbu to commence our month of volunteering on the Bandari Project. As I write this, sitting in the open communal area of Honey Badger Lodge, the monkeys are cruising around overhead and occasionally on the ground around us. One of them approached us and eyed off my sandals next to my feet, maybe thinking what a laugh it would be to carry them off. Yesterday morning we took a stroll through the local village around our accommodation, It’s getting towards the end of the dry season. 3-4 months of little rain make the dirt roads so dusty and it rises to cover the foliage of roadside plants. Any vacant land between houses is put to good use, and the remains of ... read more
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Africa » Tanzania » North September 5th 2019

The start of our second African adventure! After a hectic period for our family that has included helping both of our kids move house at the same time (one family in Torquay and the other into our own house in Warrnambool), we’ve hit the road until Christmas. Our plan is to return as volunteers to the Bandari Project in Tanzania for a month, followed by independent travel around Rwanda, Uganda and lastly Madagascar. Ran into some Warrnambool friends on the train to Melbourne and discovered that we’d be sharing the 13-hour flight with them as far as Abu Dhabi where we hung out with them for a couple of hours. Then it was off to Nairiobi and a four hour stopover before our final leg south to Kilimanjaro, flying right past the iconic peak that we ... read more
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Africa » Tanzania » North August 13th 2019

Arusha Als erstes ging ich zum alten deutschen Fort, im Zentrum von Arusha. Es wurde 1900 fertig. Im Umfeld des Forts wurde ein rechtwinkliges Straßensystem angelegt und Steinhäuser erbaut. Manche werden sogar heute noch genutzt als Schule, Krankenhaus oder für Büros. So begannen die Orte Dar es Salam, Tanga, Arusha, Tabora und Mbeya und wurden regionale Zentren. Wirtschaftlich gesehen waren die deutschen Kolonien eher ein Fehlschlag. Man führte Sisal, Baumwolle, Gummibäume und Kaffe als cash crops ein, die das deutsche Reich versorgen sollten. Die Einheimischen wurden gezwungen auf diesen Plantagen zu arbeiten, was zur Folge hatte dass viele Menschen sich nicht mehr selbst mit Nahrungsmitteln versorgen konnten. Insgesamt war die Kolonialisierung von Tangayika finanziell ein riesiges Verlustgeschäft, 1914 betrug das Defizit (Investitionen minus eingenommene Steuern)122 Mio Reichsmark... read more
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Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha August 12th 2019

Abfahrt von Nairobi bei 14 ° - wahrscheinlich hatˋs in Gauting mehr gehabt. Und als ich u 8.30 endlich auf der Straße war, schlief diese Stadt noch immer. Also nicht direkt Tiefschlaf, aber doch Schlaf. Die Fahrerei war dementsprechend angenehm und ich kam ohne größere Angriffe auf Pauls oder mein Leben davon. Ein paar Marabus glotzten mich an, dann war ich aus der Stadt draußen und es wurde sehr ruhig. Die Straße zur Grenze ist neu ausgebaut aber wenig befahren. Es geht durch Maasai Gebiet, große Kuh Herden ziehen dahin und wirbeln hohe Staubfahnen auf. An einem Brunnen warteten mehrere Herden geduldig, bis sie dran kamen - so gesittet wie Engländer an der Bushaltestelle. Die Maasai Männer haben alle einen Stock dabei, schon die kleinen Jungs. Die Frauen hier waren mit Halsreifen und Ohrringen aus bunten ... read more
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Africa » Tanzania » North » Ngorongoro Conservation Area August 1st 2019

So lucky to be staying on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, a large volcanic caldera. The crater, which formed when a large volcano exploded and collapsed on itself two to three million years ago, is 610 metres deep and its floor covers 260 square kilometres. Estimates of the height of the original volcano range from 4,500 to 5,800 metres high. We set out with our guide Suleiman at 6am for a seven hour game drive, we were lucky to see a number of lion prides. Early morning we were able to watch the lions eating and roaming the park, by midday they were all sleeping, a couple just on the side of the road. The crater is home to numerous zebra, elephants and wilderbeast among the thousands of other animals. After two nights at the ... read more
Ron and our guide Selemani

Africa » Tanzania » North June 25th 2019

Once again, we were treated to a quite different terrain from that of the previous safari parks. The Serengeti National Park (pronounced See-ren-geti, so we were told) is huge and while the western region comprises savannah, sprinkled with umbrella-throned acacia over a black clay soil, and the northern region is covered in open woodlands, the majority of the park is dead flat and almost treeless and seems to extend for ever. This gives rise to the name Serengeti, which is Maasai for ‘endless plains’. Before reaching Serengeti, we had an overnighter and a brief visit to Lake Manyara National Park. This is quite a small park, of which about two-thirds is covered by the lake, although this is ... read more
Vultures fighting over a buffalo carcass at Serengeti ...
... and what remains when they have finished
Would you call this a 'pool of hippos'?

Africa » Tanzania » North » Mount Kilimanjaro June 24th 2019

Is there an upper age limit to climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro--a cutoff point when the physical body is tapped out and refuses to haul itself one more step up a 19,340-foot mountainside? Is there an age when you hit the wall on such high-altitude stunts? The question was on my mind recently—in May 2019--as I prepared, at age 71, to test myself on the mountain via the popular Machame route. If all went well and I reached the summit, I could check off another big adventure on my bucket list. Surely, I thought, there would be kindred company on the mountain, other baby boomers hoping to check that box on their lists, and they would leave a record (name, nationality, age) at each camp site register en route. But my unscientific perusal of such records surprised me: ... read more
Uhuru Peak
On the Trail

Africa » Tanzania » North » Ngorongoro Conservation Area April 28th 2019

Feeling sad! Yes, this would be the last video blog of my epic journey across Africa before my unceremonious exit from the continent. Yes, I fell in love with the continent that attracts me like a magnet with its rugged but beautiful wilderness, it’s fascinating wild life and its legendary Masai tribe. This is a slideshow of the Masai village in Ngorongoro. Let me admit it, I have an obsession about the Masai people. They continue to fascinate me from my childhood. Allow me to rewind a few decades. My father was a great storyteller and he lived and breathed into the wilderness of Assam in North east India. I recall the days when I was a kid and I used to curl up to him listening to his stories of the wild world in rainy ... read more




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