Today we had a long day of traveling. First drive to Arusha airport, then a flight to Zanzibar followed by a drive to the north of Zanzibar to the hotel. Before we went we were saying goodbye to the staff. They song the Jambo song, that one sticked in my head for the test of the day. We also took […]
An early rise again this morning, we had a long day of bad roads ahead of us. Todays target was to spot the rhino, the last one of the big 5. Today we covered 250 kilometers in 9,5 hours. Leaving the Sound of Silence we again were treated with a beautiful sunrise. On the way we spotted three lions they […]
An early start and witnessed a beautiful sunset in the Serengeti national park. Today the drive went more south with the main target to spot the leopard. We spent 8 hours on bad roads and covered about 130 kilometers. We were lucky as we could spot the leopard! Our lunch we did not take in the vehicle this time but […]
We packed everything and we started with a whole day Serengeti game drive, goodbye to the Kon Tiki Serengeti tented camp. We spend 8 hours on the drive, covering 130 kilometers. We headed in the same direction as yesterday because they expected that there were lions at the died elephant we have seen yesterday. A small lion that had lunch […]
The day started with a dive in the cold water at the pool of Manyara Best View Lodge before the breakfast. The breakfast here has everything you want. After the check out we headed to Serengeti. It was mainly a connecting drive with at the end start of the game drive. During the drive we visited the view over the […]
From our beautiful lodge in Arusha we went for the Tarangire national park. So first about 140 kilometers in the LandCruiser to the park. We passed villages on the way and we stopped at some touristic area were some sales guys were really pushing to sell something. In total we had spend 10 hours in the LandCruiser and covered 250 […]
Today we had an early breakfast to go on our first game drive. The first game drive was in Arusha National Park, close the the hotel. This park does not have predators, but we were treated on many other animals. After a short briefing by our guides for the whole week Houssein and Calvin, we entered the LandCruisers and we […]
Today we started relaxed, started at 9 with a delicious breakfast. They made scrambled eggs and they had a lot of fresh fruit. The coffee is made in a traditional way, despite it is at a coffee estate Tanzanians are not coffee drinkers. But we Dutch are so the bread, cheese and coffee were gone rather quickly. After lunch we […]
This morning again an early start, I am afraid we have to get used to that here. The advantage of early time is that the temperature is comfortable. The hotel staff prepared our breakfast to go and the drivers were already waiting for us to take is to the airport. In about 15 minutes we were at the airport and […]
After a short night of sleep we had a hakuna matata breakfast. Hakuna matata is a very common word we hear here a lot of times, it means no hurry. You hear it all day. During breakfast also the rest of the team arrived, they had a different flight, a direct flight but a night flight. After breakfast we decided […]