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 | Last days already!
2007-11-22, Arusha, Tanzania. By: tamale | | Happy Thanksgiving!
Time has passed more quickly than I think we all realized. We leave for India tomorrow yet each day we’ve spent in Arusha has felt like the longest day ever. We’ve been here bet... |
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 | A Mountain in Moshi
2007-10-31, Moshi, Tanzania. By: tamale | | With a tear shed for leaving our home stays in Zanzibar, our semi-stationary education has been replaced by learning in motion. We packed up our backpacks again--this time weight consciously leaving ... |
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| Border Crossing (but not really) in Zanzibar
2007-10-21, Stone Town, Tanzania. By: tamale | | Upon getting off the three hour ferry ride in Stone Town, Zanzibar, you are promptly shuttled into a passport validation line, where you are checked and stamped in order to get through the city gates.... |
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 | Two Weeks in Africa
2007-10-21, Zanzibar, Tanzania. By: JFS | | And so it is just beginning. I spent 3 weeks in Washintong DC before I left the states getting to know the other 27 folks I'll be travelling with for the year. Also getting to know a little bit about ... |
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 | Hmm, Swahili.
2007-10-10, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. By: tamale | | After about 28 hours in plane after plane, we touched down in the Dar es Salaam airport at 11:00pm East Africa time, or 3:00pm EST, you can calculate the jetlag we were experiencing. We wearily piled... |
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| My first week in Moshi
2007-07-11, Moshi, Tanzania. By: Caro1611 | | I've been in Moshi, Tanzania for almost a week now. The town in great and I am slowly learning a little Swahili. I have a Swahili teacher everyday for a couple of hours and it is going slowly but hope... |
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 | good morning vanilla sun
2004-08-17, serengeti national park, Tanzania. By: diasman | | after sleeping in a tent in the middle of serengeti in a marked camping site, the sun wakes up the surrounding nature and brings the magic energy with the sunny vanilla beams that mixes white clouds w... |
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 | Time to spice things up
2007-01-21, Zanzibar, Tanzania. By: thenomads | | After a short but decidedly ropey ferry ride we arrived in Zanzibar’s Stone Town. Stone town is steeped in history, from the Spice trade to the slave trade. But perhaps its resounding point of inte... |
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 | In Tanzania the lion sleeps tonight
2007-01-20, Arusha, Tanzania. By: thenomads | | Tanzania is a beautiful country and the drive to Arusha as Mt Kilimanjaro made fleeting appearances from behind its cloudy vale was fantastic. We left early the next day for our three day safari on t... |
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 | Wazazi Chem Chem Sports Day
2006-10-30, Moshi, Tanzania. By: kyates | | Wazazi and Chem Chem are sister schools, and there are 5 of us who teach there. Remembering our end of the year Field Day's in elementary school we decided to organize a Sports Day for the kids. It ... |
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| Safari
2006-10-17, Arusha, Tanzania. By: ctraveller | | Safari in the Serengeti
I was given some bad advice. I had just returned excited from the Masa Mara (in Kenya) to inquire about safari in the Serengeti (in Tanzania) to be told I had seen it all. ... |
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| Kili
2006-10-17, Machame, Tanzania. By: ctraveller | | Kilimanjaro
At 5896 metres high, this is the mountain people come to climb (um, hike) when they are in Tanzania, Africa.
The six member group consisted of various nationalities; Polish, Ameri... |
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| Scabies
2006-10-30, Moshi, Tanzania. By: kyates | | How contagious is scabies? and what exactly is scabies?
haha, spent this past weekend at a Masaai vilage. It was an absolutely amazing experience. The Masaai are one of the main tribal people still ... |
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| Niarobi Fly!
2006-10-30, Moshi, Tanzania. By: kyates | | Anyone have some friends from Africa who iron all their clothes, even their underwear? Well let me tell you why...all because of a little bug called the Niarobi fly....
Two weeks ago I noticed thr... |
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| The Tanzanian Way
2006-10-30, Moshi, Tanzania. By: kyates | | Haha...so roughly 3 weeks ago my parents sent out a package to me. Just with candy and some things to help teach the kids with and a few bits of clothing. They were told it would take about 5 days. ... |
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| Time is Flying
2006-08-30, Moshi, Tanzania. By: KYATES | | Wow, it has already been 3 weeks! Every 2 weeks, some old volunteers leave and some new volunteers come in. The transition is pretty interesting, because you find that you can get pretty close to pe... |
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 | Go big or go home
2006-10-01, Moshi, Tanzania. By: melpessin | | Go big or go home.
we'll i wasn't ready to go home so i went big. really really big. for some reason i decided that with very little mountaineering experience I was going to trek to the summit of... |
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| Doing Well
2006-08-30, Moshi, Tanzania. By: kyates | | All is well in Moshi. Seems to get hotter and hotter every day. We are currently in Tanzania's "short rains", it has only rained very hard here one night. Everyday has been clear and sunny and hot,... |
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| the cow has malaria
2006-09-25, Arusha, Tanzania. By: melpessin | | The girls at Upendo are amazing and i can't believe i have less than a month left with them. When we got back from the last trip we arrived late at night and joined Auntie mum in the kitchen to sort ... |
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| Munzugu
2006-08-30, Moshi, Tanzania. By: kyates | | Not sure if the spelling is right...but that is the swahili for white person. Basically me and the other volunteers stick out like sore thumbs here. Where ever we go people are saying HI and Muzugu ... |
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 | Me Tarzan, You Jane (Dang)
2005-06-15, Serengetti, Tanzania. By: frankieboy | | Tanzania
Dar es Salaam was pretty much a typical African City. A little dodgy, not that much to see and life lived on the streets.
It seems people were having an outer body experience when the... |
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 | Kiliamanjaro!!
2006-05-28, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. By: aw80africa | | On Monday we travelled through 3 different countries in one day!! We rode on a 18 hour bus ride that turned out to be 21 hours!! We went through Uganda, to Kenya, and then to Tanzania safe and sound. ... |
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 | TZ the final leg!!
2006-02-16, Mbeya, Tanzania. By: the_goose | | Hi All,
Only me, I hope you all enjoyed the last two entries, with any luck this will e my last entry from Tanzania and from tomorrow I will be in my fourth country, the idllic republic of Malawi.... |
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| Kilimanjaro the climb of a life
2006-02-11, Moshi, Tanzania. By: the_goose | | Just for reference, I climbed Kilimanjaro and will be traveling to Ngorogoro with my good friend Alan Dean. A fellow mature RA on the frontier experience, who much like myself was very grateful to lea... |
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| The Frontier Experience.
2006-01-03, Ifakara, Tanzania. By: the_goose | | Hi All,
Well as promised find here a mega account of all my experience over the last month or so. I have split this into two parts, the first being an account of my four weeks in the Savannah with... |
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 | I'm back in civilisation!!!
2006-02-03, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. By: the_goose | | Hello All,
First of all, I'm back and alive again and have survied my month out in the Savannah of deepest rural Tanzania. Thank you very much to all those who sent me emails, it was great to get ... |
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| A good deeds and punishment
2006-01-05, Zanzibar, Tanzania. By: the_goose | | Hi All,
Before I disappear from your screen i though i would pass on the contact details of a couple of people/establishments that have really impressed me. Trying to do my bit for the local econo... |
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 | Fatal Fences
2005-08-04, Arusha, Tanzania. By: carnivore | | {thought continuum from last journal entry while on 18 hour bus journey from Tanzania to Uganda}: As most emergent African countries broke free from the shackles of their colonizers during the 1960’s,... |
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 | Perpetual Seasons of Offspring
2005-08-02, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. By: carnivore | | At dawn, we descended down onto the crater floor. The views were incredible as you can see the steep sweeping pitch of the volcanic walls while driving down the precarious dirt road, with the wildlif... |
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 | Serengeti: Candyshop of Game
2005-08-01, Serengetti, Tanzania. By: carnivore | | Off by 6am on our game drive. Two Dik-Dik’s ran across our path and scampered off into the grass. I believe they are the smallest antelope, about the size of a large cat, and a male and female pair ... |
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 | Running the Croc Gauntlet
2005-07-31, Serengetti, Tanzania. By: carnivore | | Started our morning game drive at 6:15am and headed into the Serengeti, the mother of all African national parks. The Serengeti forms the southern half of the protected wilderness area which includes... |
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| In the Shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro
2005-07-27, Arusha, Tanzania. By: carnivore | | Arrived in Arusha (northern Tanzania) which lies in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro. This is the starting point for safari’s and mountain treks and as such, the town is brimming with touts (locally cal... |
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 | 14 Muslims and 2 Warriors
2005-07-25, Zanzibar, Tanzania. By: carnivore | | Another blissfully unproductive day in paradise. Over coffee this morning, I could just barely make out the approaching figure of Olomonyak heading down the beach. He brought the jewelry his mother h... |
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