Arusha Stories


Busing it through Tanzania's wild west

If I had done a bit more research I would have realized that western Tanzania isn't the easiest to travel through so I have spent the last two days in a bus getting from Rwanda to Arusha, Tanzania. Out the windows, I've had some first superficial impressions of the place: very flat (at least the western part), very green (initially a lot of seemingly...


but wait theres more...

Following our trip to Tarangire nat. park and the harrowing trip back in the dark - i have never ever prayed so hard for safety while travelling before - the hilux brakes got a good workout that night and to top it off when we hit the outskirts of Arusha we got caught up in a traffic jam that took us over an hour to get through, almost managing to colle...


Where to start?

My third week is drawing to a close and it is only my 2nd update, so apologies for lack of posts - its not all complete laziness, there is a bit of safari and a couple of power outages as well - Arusha does not have what we might call a reliable power system, where we are apparently is not so bad, out at one of the international schools they had 4 days ...


A taste of life in Tanzania

Mambo! - That is slang in swahili for 'whats up' to which you reply Poa! - 'everythings cool' - one of the few swahili phrases i've managed to master, that along with 'Pole' - sorry and 'asante' - thankyou. I've been pretty lax on learning the swahili due to the fact i have 2 very capable swahili speakers in Tom and Mike one of who is always with me. ...