We woke up at the absolute crack of dawn to try and get the most value for our 24 hour entry to the park. We weren’t planning to camp as it was crazy expensive, 25 USD per person, for non residents so we wanted to get into the park as early as possible. Read the rest of this entry »
As we were wonderfully unplanned, again we didn’t know where we were heading when we set out on the road back from Lake Eyasi. One of my Christmas presents from my darling sister was a day in a game park during our safari. After checking prices and realising how the Tanzanians really screw you for owning a foreign registered vehicle we had decided to go to Amboseli park in Kenya on our way back to Nairobi. Read the rest of this entry »
As the 10th of January is a very special day (my birthday – 23 now, how old is that!!) we decided to just chill at Lake Eyasi. Read the rest of this entry »
We set off to investigate a grand plan Dara had devised to potentially avoid the horrendous park fees in Ngorogoro crater and Serengeti National Park. We had heard a rumour that it was possible to transit through the park on the main road without paying the full park fees – this would give us a both good chance of seeing some game and a nice route back to Nairobi. Unfortunately it was too good to be true. Read the rest of this entry »
We set off early (for too common a theme when camping – ugh) for the highly anticipated drive down the mountain from Mambo. The owners of Mambo had told us about a shortcut down to the main road, a very very steep track headed down from Mtae and then over a river where the bridge had collapsed. Read the rest of this entry »
Hey Mambo, Mambo Italiano…
We woke to the most wonderful view in Mambo just as the sun was rising, the whole valley was covered with a blanket of low level clouds, it felt like we were in an airplane – watching the sun rise over the clouds was just superb. Read the rest of this entry »
Myself and Dara were gloriously unplanned for our trip to Tanzania so we woke up not having a plan for the day at all. We went for a short walk in the morning around Irente which turned out to be really nice.
We said our final goodbyes to Peponi and my phone and headed off West towards the Usumbara mountains. The road was good and soon we were winding our way upwards into the lush green and beautiful mountains.
We left Stilts early, nobody awake yet to say goodbye 
Danced all morning and slept all afternoon and evening (ha, isn’t that supposed to be the other way around?) on New Years day. Thankfully we’d booked a banda to crash in as heading back to a tent in the mid day heat isn’t a very appealing proposition. Woke up late afternoon for just long enough to grab some dinner and open my lovely Christmas presents delivered from home! Read the rest of this entry »