Days 43-49 We left our friends at Lake Shore Lodge after a couple of very relaxing days, and began our journey to Morogoro. Suma needed to fly out of Dar on 17th July to head back to the UK to fetch our 2 kids, returning on 20th July. A bit of a hectic turnaround but circumstances were as they were. The drive from Kipili to Mbeya was long – it took all day and...
Day 58 – A night in Bagamoyo We left Morogoro to start our month-long journey around Northern Tanzania, looking forward to seeing beaches, mountains and the world-famous national parks. We headed towards Bagamoyo as there were meant to be nice beaches there. We did a day trip to the ruins there some years ago. The place didn’t impress me much then, so I...
Day 50 & 51 – a messy night in Dar I headed to Dar Es Salaam on the friday night, using the new high speed train. It is awesome. 2 hours of relaxing in comfort, versus the 5 or 6 hour crazy drive with endless police traffic stops, speed limits and slow trucks. The time went pretty quickly as I chatted to a tractor salesman from Dodoma who was sitting next...
Day 65 – Tarangire National Park The next morning we woke early to leave at 9am for a full-day game drive. Due to the dust being kicked up by road improvements on the NP access road, our driver took us on a diversion through Maasai villages: they now live in permanent settlements with access to schools and healthcare. The car park at the entry gate was rammed...
Day 71 – Marangu Iddy took us for a walk to a nearby waterfall, we visited Mama Salma in the afternoon & popped into Moshi for tea and pick up a Tanzanite bracelet. Mama Salma’s place Day 72 – Leaving Marangu We left Marangu, both Suma and me feeling quite ill from probable mild Carbon Monoxide poisoning from the a partially blocked flue on the...
Day 76 – Peponi Beach Resort The day was spent working on emails & relaxing at Peponi Beach resort. The kids loved the pool. The owner of the Capricorn Cottages next door stopped for a chat with us, and invited us for food and drinks with her husband and some other ex-pats who meet there every friday afternoon. We met up with them round 4pm and spent a...
My cousin Hannah and her fiancee Martyn were due to get married in Malawi on 10th August 2022. Suma has family in central and southern Tanzania. It seemed that a road trip was in order, and we had 6 weeks in which to do it… Dar Es Salaam We hung out in Dar for a couple of days with Suma’s brother Jones, it was great to catch up with him again. A priority was to...
Almost everybody who comes to Tanzania for a safari goes up to the northern part of the country, home to the world-famous Serengeti, Tarangire, Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro National Parks. Mount Kilimanjaro is also up in the north. As a result, the northern parks are extremely busy. It is not uncommon to see 50-plus vehicles surrounding a leopard or lion kill, which...
If you have the time, driving is the best way to explore the vast and beautifully diverse country that is Tanzania. Driving in Tanzania can be both liberating and terrifying. There is no idiotic road-rage nonsense because nobody cares about road rules. There is a degree of freedom that you just don’t get in the Western world. If your vehicle will physically fit...
General info about Tanzania: Lying just south of the equator, Tanzania is located in the tropics and has a hot climate. They have 2 seasons: warm and dry, coinciding with the northern hemisphere summer. Hot and wet, roughly in the northern hemisphere winter months. The landscape is very diverse: tropical islands like Zanzibar, Pemba, and Mafia. The whole...