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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 25 Dar Es Salaam to Stone Town, Zanzibar

    Saturday 16 December 2017. Photos.
    Highlights: Water crossing, Spice Farm Tour, Slave Market, The Old Fort, Sunset, Night Market

    A huge day overall that started with us leaving camp at 5 am after a 4 am wake up. Even at 4 am in the morning it was extremely humid and I was glad I only had a daypack to carry during the morning. Our truck drop us off after a 15 minute ride from there we caught a small ferry across to Dar Es Salam proper followed by a bus to the main port terminal and then eventually we got on the main ferry that took just less than 2 hours to travel to Zanzibar.

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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 24 Tanga to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

    Friday 15 December 2017. Photos.
    Highlights: Dar Es Salam Beach

    Today was an extremely long travel day. We had to be packed, have breakfast and be gone by 6 am. I noticed that Bill had overslept and Arran and myself helped bring down his tent. We also made and packed our lunch before leaving as we wouldn’t be stopping for lunch today. We had to try and beat the worse of the Dar Es Salam traffic later in the day.

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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 23 Arusha to Tanga, Tanzania

    Thursday 14 December 2017. Photos
    Highlights: The Long Hot Drive

    Today was an extremely long and hot travel day to get us closer to Dar Es Salaam tomorrow in reasonable time. We also had two new members join the group, Mark and Thais. The travelling wasn’t made easier when one of our travel members Maggie had her only credit card ‘eaten’ by the ATM machine at the Arusha Shopping Mall. The card was eaten due to ‘time inactivity’ according to the notification slip but I wasn’t there.

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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 22 Serengeti to Arusha, Tanzania

    Wednesday 13 December 2017. Photos – Serengeti and Tanzania (General)
    Highlights: Fighting elephants, baby zebra

    An early morning waking in the Serengeti found that no tour members had gone missing but all were excited for this morning’s final game drive in the Serengeti. Yesterday was off the scale with major encounters with wildlife so today we were a bit more subdued at least initially but the morning sunrise over our camp was worth the early start.

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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 21 Serengeti, Tanzania

    Part 2 of 2. Tuesday 12 December 2017. Photos – Serengeti
    Highlights: The elusive leopards, fighting antelopes, elephants, lightning storm

    In the afternoon we moved into the Serengeti itself. This was a much more rough and dirty road and we coped a significant amount of dirt following other vehicles across the afternoon.

    The amazing sight in the Serengeti is the thousands of wildebeest who have mitigated here from Kenya. There were everywhere but the best sight was when they were running in long line. Most of the time they intermixed with the zebras.

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