 | Beautiful Beaches of Zanzibar
2009-10-04, Zanzibar North Region, Tanzania. By: sej | | Wow, Zanzibar is beautiful!! My last message was in Stone Town. We spent the day here, exploring and went to the night market for dinner. There's basically loads of stalls, all selling different foods... |
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| Wandering the streets of Zanzibar
2009-09-30, Stone Town, Tanzania. By: sej | | So, today we've come over to Zanzibar. i've just remembered how much I hated my backpack in Oz, so much so that I even posted it back home and bought a suitcase whilst I was out there... so why was i ... |
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| Marangu village
2009-09-27, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. By: sej | | Went to a Village Education project in Marangu. Intrepid and Guerba have sponsored it and provided a village with a computer centre. It was so good! There was a volunteer guy, Bob, who was a teacher o... |
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| Upgraded to a real room!
2009-09-28, Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. By: sej | | Hi, thanks for the messages everyone! I'm loving this place so much. We're up in the Usambara mountains now and I finally gave out all the stuff I brought over for the kids. They were so happy, it was... |
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| Animals galore
2009-09-24, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. By: sej | | All our cars broke down, one of our drivers got arrested, we lost one of our trucks with our food and drinking water, but we made it through! It was all an adventure! |
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| Animals in the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater
2009-09-26, Arusha, Tanzania. By: sej | | Having a great time. Not long before I have to get back on the truck so gonna be quick. Had a brilliant guide for the serengeti - walter - brilliant!!
Saw mating ostriches, lots of lions, warthog (... |
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| Great Group and Village Tour
2009-09-22, Karatu, Tanzania. By: sej | | So, I'm now 2 days into my tour around Kenya and Tanzania and I'm having the time of my life! This is what life is about!
Yesterday.... We left Nairobi and travelled for nearly the whole day on a v... |
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 | Dar es Salaam
2009-03-24, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. By: RyanEmily | | We traveled on the ferry from Zanzibar to Dar with our friend Jon who we met in Nungwi. Interestingly, we discovered before getting on the ferry that in fact we had spent our entire stay on Zanzibar a... |
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 | Zanzibar
2009-03-18, Zanzibar, Tanzania. By: RyanEmily | | Hi everybody. We're still alive. Sorry it's taken a while to write another journal - it's been a pretty hectic last couple of weeks (good and bad!)
We left off in Pangani and since then we've been ... |
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 | From the mountains to the coast
2009-03-12, Pangani, Tanzania. By: RyanEmily | | We are writing this from the only internet cafe in Pangani, a quiet little town on the north coast of tanzania, untouched by tourism. We reached Pangani first by getting the bus from Arusha to Tanga, ... |
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| Last week in Arusha
2009-03-07, Arusha, Tanzania. By: RyanEmily | | So where to start... We had a mad last week in Arusha. Being completely honest there were times when we were really really looking forward to moving on from Arusha and the volunteering, but then when ... |
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| Arusha. Third Week.
2009-02-26, Arusha, Tanzania. By: RyanEmily | | Hi Everyone,
Thanks for all your comments. It's nice to know who is reading this (Aunt Nellie?!). Not a whole lot of new stuff has happened since our last blog, hence why we haven't written one. Bu... |
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| Arusha - the first week
2009-02-16, Arusha, Tanzania. By: RyanEmily | | Hi everyone,
So it's been a busy last few days. We have spent the majority of our weekdays teaching the kids (or attempting to) and then relaxing in the sun back at our house and doing a lot of rea... |
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| Arusha - First Impressions
2009-02-09, Arusha, Tanzania. By: RyanEmily | | Mambo!
When we arrived at our home-stay we were met by a very friendly and happy lady who we are staying with - We cant remember her name! - Her house is completely not what we were expecting, it's... |
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 | Zanzibar Town to Jambiani Beach
2008-12-03, Zanzibar, Tanzania. By: saffa2 | | Imagine the following: unspoilt soft white beaches, shady green palm trees, ice blue waters, grass huts and hammocks. That is the picture of the East Coast stretch of Jambiani Beach, a postcard settin... |
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 | Mbeya to Zanzibar
2008-11-29, Zanzibar, Tanzania. By: saffa2 | | After spending a night in Karonga, we bid Malawi farewell and excited via the Songwe Border post on Tuesday, entering Tanzania via Kasumulu border post with high expectations of new adventures.
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 | Moving on.
2008-10-25, Zanzibar Island, Tanzania. By: inky2 | | We leave Zanzibar today, well rested. Off to Malawai beaches next. Finally got some pictures up for everyone. Enjoy.
Sue and Jan |
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| Zanzibar is Nuts!!!!!
2008-10-23, Zanzibar Island, Tanzania. By: inky2 | | We are in Zanzibar today having an amazing time....very hot and humid!!!!! Lots of shopping in little alleyways and tiny stores stuffed full of treasures...went on sunset cruise on riggety wooden boa... |
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| Down Tanzania
2008-10-21, Dar es Salaam Harbour, Tanzania. By: inky2 | | We've spent the last couple days just travelling down Tanzania in our new truck, cushy seats, no bouncing to the moon, to Dar Es Salaam. We are not spending the night here, then to Zanzibar tomorrow.... |
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| Game Drives Galore
2008-10-19, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. By: inky2 | | Us again...very little time...truck leaving in 10 minutes....we have had an amazing time the last few days, about 800 pics, we have seen 4 of the 5 big 5 game (lions, elephants, rhinos, somrhting else... |
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 | Another trip tomorrow to visit a family near Marangu!
2008-09-19, Boma Ng'ombe, Tanzania. By: rshmbo | | I am traveling with two couples to visit their parents near Marangu Saturday. I can't remember the name of the village but I know that travel time by car is about an hour. Visiting families has been... |
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 | Picnic at St. Mary's School
2008-09-18, Boma Ng'ombe, Tanzania. By: rshmbo | | Habari za mchana!
Each week I have been taking 10 students on a picnic in the soccer field near the school. We have jelly sandwiches, cookies and mango juice. I always have english lesson that fo... |
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| Marangu and St. Mary's
2008-09-16, Boma Ng'ombe, Tanzania. By: rshmbo | | Today we are visiting a small village about 1 hour from Boma. The highlight of this trip is a natural waterfall, banana plantations and shopping market. Opps! We also stopped at a cave and went ins... |
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 | Zanzibar - Spice Island
2008-09-15, Boma Ng'ombe, Tanzania. By: rshmbo | | Sorry about the last story about Zanzibar. When I was dowloading the story the internet cafe lost power but I thought my story went through. I then received a note from family telling me my story di... |
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 | Thursday
2008-09-08, Boma Ng'ombe, Tanzania. By: rshmbo | | I will be back on the internet on Thursday and want to share my stories about taking the students on a picnic, my visit to Zanzibar and the St.Mary's School Art Show that will display all the art the ... |
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| Checkers and Bow in Boma!
2008-09-08, Boma Ng'ombe, Tanzania. By: rshmbo | | Every Wednesday afternoon many men in the village set up game tables to play checkers and bow. I have been passing by them and watching them play. After three weeks they invited me to play checkers. ... |
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| Shirigungani Family
2008-09-08, Boma Ng'ombe, Tanzania. By: rshmbo | | I was fortunate to have the opportunity to visit a special family in Shirigungani. The village is small with many banana trees and produce gardens. The people in this village are very connected with... |
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