Arusha Travel Blogs

Despite initial equipment failure, constipation and self-doubt, all of which I overcame, this low-lander made it to the Summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Uhuru Peak, the highest point in Africa!  For the curious, that is 5895 meters, or about 19,340 feet, a bit higher than Everest base camp…

  We raced to the Air Tanzania office first thing in the morning to see if there was a bus to the airport for our mid-morning flight. They told us the next flight wasn't until Saturday and it was only Wednesday. Their agent in Dar had booked us on a flight that didn't exist. Had we known, we …

We somehow managed NOT to book a safari trip in Dar, as we wanted to check out the agencies once we got to Arusha ourselves. Turned out to be a good move. But first things first! It was one h*** of a busride to get there! It's quite a few hours, if I remember right it was 8. So, unsure of whe…

*** under construction *** In 1992 I spent four weeks in Kenya + Tanzania - two of them with a freind of mine who was working in Rwanda in those days. Big drawback: I was being mugged on the day of my arrival in Nairobi. Camera, big tele lenses - all gone. Fortunately my friend had brought his camera, too. No tele lenses, though, but at least I could take some pictures. And I had more time to watch what I saw! :-D

So, in my brief moment of stable internet service, I wish to report that both Chris and I made our way to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro.  Summit day was insane.  We woke up at midnight to start what ended up being an over sever hour trek to the top through straightline winds and cold.&nbs…

This was our Itinerary:   Arusha National Park overnighting at Ngurudoto Moutain Lodge.   Tarangire National Park staying at Swala Tarangire. This lovely camp was run by an Irish man whoose parents emigrated and he for his sins had fallen for a Finish girl.   Lake Manyara …

Hi all and welcome to our travel blog. I hope it was not too much of a pain to sign in! Rick and I are leaving for South Africa June 13 from Vancouver and we will be on a Safari for the following 2 months. But first we are headed to Regina. This website has really cool maps and we can upload pictures (if we can find a computer). Hope you all found this okay.

Hello again! We are done with Safari, back in Arusha and therefore officially done with the first half of our Tanzania tour... it has only been 6 days, but both my dad and I agree that it feels like foreverrrrr. All of the things that have happened over the past week are such once in a lifetime exp…

Having entered another country (country number 4 for those of you counting) we made up for our lack of activity for the last couple of days and got straight into a 3 day game drive. This was in the Serengetti and the Ngorongoro crater. Setting out from the "snake park" campsite aptely named as it h…

Right I thought it’s about time I wrote about the robbery as well, as it was defiantly an interesting experience and I want to be able to remember it in years to come. I don’t want this to put people off coming to Arusha or Tanzania as it could have happened anywhere and as you’ll read I feel…

From Arusha I took 02 crowded  dala-dala (crowded mini vans used as local transportation). It´S hard to believe the way people travel; stand, no seat belts, sometimes the drivers turn the engine off and…     After more than an hour on the road we (02 guides and I) got off and …

Short tour of Europe (Lisbon, London, Amsterdam) followed by a safari through the northern national park circuit of Tanzania. Almost 4 weeks in total.

I spent two weeks in Tanzania on safari, ranging from the Ngorongoro Crater to Lake Manyara to Arusha National Park.

10 months of working as a volunteer for a dutch orginasation in Kenya. also some traveling in Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi