Blogs from Zanzibar City, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa - page 8

Day 9 - Zanzibar - Stone Town - 7/8/09 Woke up today by the sound of rain drops on the tents. Great! Got up, got dressed and took the tents down in the rain. We were on the truck by 0630, headed for Dar Es Salaam, we were chased all day by a really dark cloud. Eventually after 9 hours of driving we reached Dar. Moses gave us 2 hours to wonder round Dar. I went off with Duncan and Cat; we simply decided to have a beer. We stumbled on The Kilimanjaro hotel so we went inside and had 2 beers. We got back to the truck and got our ferry tickets over to Zanzibar. It was chaos getting on, pushing, pulling, fighting to get on. A typically African affair, I guess you could say! ... read more

So i am back ... wow i am proud of myself 2 entries in 2 days ... don't get too used to it! So i decided to continue my story about Zanzibar while i have decent internet. So we are in stone town (i believe thats where i stopped the story) and at night we go to the film festival its called ziff and its the African International film festival and got to see great music and movies ... we watched a movie about women in Sudan that if they have pre marital sex and they are found (aka pregnancy) they are to be lashed 80 times and that is also for the male. when the male finds out he then ignores the woman and denies having sex with her and does not take the responsibility ... read more

Hi everybody. This will be the final post on this blog for my semester abroad. I'm going to keep it active so you and others can look at it and the pics. Yet it will also stay alive because I will continue to post on it. Likely when I travel, this will be the place where I update yall but I also might do a couple Lancaster editions too (plenty of adventures there too ya know). As always, thanks so much for reading. Hope that you've enjoyed reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it. Hope you've tried to picture me in the wonderful places and wacky adventures that I've described. Hope that you've learned a little something something about the world. And I hope that you'll tell me when I get home that ... read more

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't written in a while but have been quite busy here so got loads to tell you....you might want to get yourself a cuppa because this could take a while! The first Monday I was here was Easter Monday so no-one went into the hospital. It was also Brian's (one of the medics) birthday so to celebrate we had a sunset dhow ride from Stone Town. It was really nice and there was a band playing as well as lots of wine! When we came back we had a bbq and a house party (which involved 6 litres of spirits and a lot of sambuca!) It was a really good night and I think Brian enjoyed himself. I think we were supposed to have our Stone Town orientation on Tuesday but because ... read more

I'm staying with another student in Muungoni, though we're studying different things here. Maggie is studying birds on a nearby island, (appropriately named Bird Island) which is a pretty cool project. Every morning, hundreds (maybe thousands) of birds leave this mangrove island in the middle of this large river and every night, they return. So she goes out there in the morning and in the evening to observe the different species, watch their activity, and count their numbers. I've gone with her twice now, seen lotsa birds and two beautiful sunsets over the island and river. On Thursday, we decided to canoe downstream to the island, maybe a mile away. We left at maybe 5pm, arrived by 5:30, and drifted around watching roosting birds in the mangroves until 6 when most of the flocks started to ... read more