This is the trip that keeps on giving! Every day we talk about something that happened on the trip or something reminds us of the trip or we stand in the doorway wishing we were back on the trip…but yesterday the remember-the-trip-thing went to a whole new level! Our Tanzanian safari leader, the awesome Brian
You know at the end of the movie when they sometimes run a reel of bloopers or out-takes? Or maybe they act out something super silly and just tack it on after the credits to reward everyone for staying through to the very, very end? Well, we have a bunch of photos that maybe weren’t
Zanzibar. Just say it aloud, Zan-zii-baaaar….. it’s the coolest named place!! It just sounds exotic, and it is. Stepping into Stone Town is exactly like stepping back in time. Zanzibar is almost entirely Muslim, so robes and scarves are everywhere. The narrow, crazy roads of Stone Town, the old center of Zanzibar city, are like
After two weeks in Tanga, we packed up and headed out for a road trip. We would make our way down the east coast of Tanzania, following the beautiful Indian Ocean, until eventually taking a ferry to the island of Zanzibar. With our good friend and guide David at our side, we took the dola-dola
Walking into the unfinished church, we were ushered to the front and asked to individually greet every person there. Only knowing about four Swahili phrases, this wasn’t as easy as you might guess! How’d we find ourselves in this position, I hear you thinking. Well, there-in lies a tale. In Tanga, a few days earlier,