Tanzania Travel Blogs

Well, before I begin detailing the events of this BIG day, I want to express some very emotional thoughts and my true inspiration that drove me to not give up…to keep pushing myself to the summit. This year I lost my dear mother. In 2007 she suffered a series of seizures and was diagnosed with br…

Habari! Napapenda hapa! (Hello, I love it here!) As you can see I am already half  Masai! I bought a Swahili phrasebook by lonely planet and I’ve started to learn how to say the basic stuff. Fun stuff!   Today I woke up at the right time and I took pictures when the sun came out. So I…

  As the eastern sky began to lighten, our Swiss Air DC-10 out of Zurich descended from billowing gray clouds to reveal a first glimpse of Tanzania. Green terrain and red clay earth bordered blue-green waters of the Indian Ocean half way down the African continent. Walking fifty yards from t…

Ok, it's been a while, I have a lot of cathing up to do on my blogging... But here we go! Dar es Salaam, "Haven of Peace". I'm not so sure about that, I've seen quieter places for sure! Got to the airport, hurried trough immigration got our backpacks and ran outside to find a toilet (You might nee…

Since arriving here, I have been determined to immerse myself into the local community, see life from their perspective and try to find out what makes these people who have virtually nothing to their names and so many problems live life with a smile on their face. I have been fully aware that I am …

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…

To be further updated.. but you have to check these videos out. These huge animals just hanging out on land that is rightfully theirs... it's just so extraordinary..

We arrived in the airport 10.35 pm and had a quick check up of our passports and identified our luggage. Afterwards we went outside the airport to have a bit of fresh air. We got in contact with a friendly woman sitting with her sleeping child on the stairs. She told us a little bit of Zanzibar. We…

Mt. Kilimanjaro - the tallest free standing mountain on earth.  The highest mountain in Africa - 19,341 ft. / 5,895 meters.  Even after I started the climb, I didn't know why I was doing it.  I thought about it a lot.  Why was I spending $1,250 and 7 days of my trip to clim…

No matter how prepared for a trip you think you are, you are never quite prepared. It's normal, all travellers are the same. These were the things running through my head as I rushed around town the morning of my departure to Tanzania. I didn't have my currency, I didn't have the all important choc…

Crossing the border in to Tanzania, was the start of many hours waiting around for visas to be able to cross borders, this wasnt to bad here with only an hour and a half to wait. While we walked to the border crossing to meet the truck, we were surrounded by maasai people wanting us to buy jeweller…

My two months as a volunteer in Arusha, Tanzania. Places visited - Arusha, Moshi, Dar es Salaam, Nairobi, Zanzibar.Hidden glances from the stunning guy in the internet cafe.... bumpy rides in the Dala Dala.... goat slaughtering ritual at the orphanage.... Poa and his ever lasting persistence... Via…

    I was up most of the night listening to the sound of rain.  I was knackered so took my time getting up. I had no flysheet on so I knew if I laid in bed my stuff would get totally drenched again. I just about managed to get my sleep gear put away into the truck they the heavens …

There isn’t much to do in Kigoma which is the main town on the Lake Tanganyika; most of the foreigners here are missionaries, aid workers and very few NGO's. So with my friends (the craziest group in the region (lol)), we try once in a while to change our routine from parties at each other'…

A selection of my photos made in Kenya and Tanzania