The heat of the midday sun beat down upon me as I walked out of the bright green rice fields I had been exploring near our camp site. Waiting for a tuk tuk to pass by, I crossed the main road and entered onto a dusty dirt street on the other side. The sound of [...]
It's almost impossible for me to describe just how vast the Serengeti Plain is in Northern Tanzania. When I recently spent three days exploring Serengeti National Park, I was constantly speechless at the sheer size and beauty of this vast plain. As far as the eye can see, grasslands in different shades of yellow, green [...]
If you're looking to buy local arts and crafts in Arusha, Tanzania, you won't have too much trouble finding a shop that sells them. In fact, even if you can't find a curio shop, an overly helpful local will be happy to guide you to one. As I was walking into the center of town on [...]
This is the fifth and final part of my Mount Kilimanjaro Climb. If you missed part 4, you can read it here. I awoke suddenly from a restless sleep. It was pitch black in my tent as I fumbled around in my sleeping bag to find my phone. Sleepily, I turned it on and squinted [...]
This is part 4 of my Mount Kilimanjaro climb. If you missed part 3, you can read it here. I looked up at the huge imposing rock face as I slowly walked out of Barranco Camp. The shadow of the Great Barranco Wall kept the temperature low, the icy air numbing the exposed skin on [...]
This week's travel photo is of an elephant in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. This elephant walked right out across the road in front of us while on a morning game drive, before joining the rest of it's herd on the other side.
This is part 3 of my Mount Kilimanjaro climb. If you missed part 2, you can read it here. The sun warmed my face as I slowly walked across the barren volcanic landscape. The vast alpine desert of the Shira Plateau stretched out before me as I trekked up the rocky terrain of an old [...]
When I went on safari recently in Tanzania, one of the animals that I wanted to see most was the hippopotamus. I saw several in the Serengeti, but it was in Ngorongoro Crater that I really got my hippo fix. Not only did I see these fat noisy animals wallowing in the water, but I [...]
This is part 2 of my Mount Kilimanjaro climb. If you missed part 1, you can read it here. I awoke to the sound of footsteps outside my tent. The soft morning light filtered in through the half open zip on one of the windows and as the footsteps got closer, I remembered that I [...]
This is part 1 of my trek to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro Groves of banana trees flashed by as I watched out of the window of the bus. As we drove through a tiny village, some kids waved at me from the side of the road with big smiles on their faces. Slowly, the [...]
