It’s hard describe our 4.5 days/4 nights in this magical and exotic place with a magical and exotic name…Zanzibar. It is a beautiful place of tropical paradise, from it’s white sand beaches of the Indian Ocean and winding get-lost wandering streets of an old city with a lot of history. We arrived by fast Ferry […]

We arrived at our next stop in Tanzania, Moshi from Arusha via a tourist bus. However once we got there, we needed to take a Dala Dala up to Marangu within Moshi to get to our hotel, The Babylon Lodge – which stands on the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. The hotel was only 5km from […]

Our fourth and last safari was to Ngorongoro Crater, a large caldera near the Serengeti. Once again, although we had already seen many of the animals before, it was great to see them in a different environment. The crater itself is huge, far bigger than we expected. Its sheer rock faces rise 2,000 feet above […]

After Amboseli we headed down to Tanzania, our second country in Africa. The border was completely chaotic, with little instruction on where to go, nothing to keep anyone from walking across, and too many Masai nicknack sellers to count. The aggressive Masai pushers (for lack of a better term) were annoying throughout Kenya. They didn’t […]

The most unique/different/hair-raising form of transportation in East Africa was not the puddle jumper plane or the budget safari vans kept operating through duct tape and hammering (true story). It was instead the small vans operating as public transit. In Kenya they are called “Matatus”; in Tanzania they are “dala-dalas”; anywhere in the US they’d […]