Trans Africa 2019

helmikuuta - huhtikuuta 2019

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Seuraa Kalenteri Jaa Toivelista

Matkaaja Trans Africa 2019
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 8.2.2019 klo 20.00
- 🌧 24 °C
- Korkeus: 1 384 m
- Tansania Arusha Region Levolosi Arusha -3.371971, 36.6831363°22’19” S 36°40’59” E
Päivä 7
Day 7: Thank you to the ppl of Tanzania
8. helmikuuta 2019, Tansania ⋅ 🌧 24 °C
Before I start the next day, I would like to tell you a bit about the people of this beautiful country, Tanzania 🇹🇿

This adventure would have not been possible if it wasn’t for Gaston (my Kili guide) and his wonderful team of porters and chefs (eight men in total).

They have been so very kind and helpful to me throughout the entire trip 🙏

All the time other tourists kept asking me whether I am climbing all alone and whether I would like to join their group. But I was never alone. I was always with nine great men.

Their jobs are tough, the porters carry about 20kg when climbing the mountain and they have to be at camp before the tourists - wearing gear that is not exactly suitable for climbing one of the seven summits.

Nevertheless, the guys always invited me to their tent for the meals, treated me with friendliness and respect, taught me some Swahili and about their life and culture.

I have found something very valuable in the past few days: New friends and new perspectives on life 🙏

And then at the hotel, the entire staff would surprise me at dinner with a local song and some cake 🍰 ... I couldn’t help but cry ... all in all a very emotional day 🙏

I fell in love with this country, it’s scenery and it’s people 🇹🇿💛Lue lisää
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Matkaaja I'm so touched💕☺️ and happy to be part of your big trip. Enjoy it !!! 😘
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Matkaaja Trans Africa 2019
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 9.2.2019
- ☀️ 24 °C
- Korkeus: 1 402 m
- Tansania Arusha Region Levolosi Arusha -3.366667, 36.6833333°22’0” S 36°40’60” E
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Päivä 8
Day 8: There is a Mzungu in town
9. helmikuuta 2019, Tansania ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
After a wonderful night in my soft, warm and huge bed, I feel rested and ready for another mini adventure 🦸🏼‍♀️

Today I went out to town with Gaston meeting some of his friends and enjoying some local stuff: Good Tanzanian cuisine, quick stop at the local market and finally some bars and local beer 🍺 💃🏼 Plus (and this was my favorite): A ride on the Daladala - this is a mini bus which stops wherever you want, picking up as many people as possible (possible means more than the bus is designed to carry) 🚎😂

Again, I have experienced nothing but kindness from the local people - so many new friends in a country far away from home 🇹🇿💛

PS: Mzungu is the Swahili term used for white people 👩‍🦳Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Was lucy to meet you too
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Matkaaja Happy to see you have found my blog!!!
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Matkaaja Trans Africa 2019
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 10.2.2019
- 🌬 30 °C
- Korkeus: 14 m
- Tansania Zanzibar North Region Matemwe -5.877884, 39.3528725°52’40” S 39°21’10” E
Päivä 9
Day 9: Off to Zanzibar
10. helmikuuta 2019, Tansania ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
The Kilimandscharo chapter is finished now and it’s time to start off to a new one: Me time on Zanzibar 🌴🐬🧜🏻‍♀️

I am staying at this beautiful place called „Zanzibar Retreat Hotel“ 🌴 - it is right at the beach (Matemwe).

I seriously have never seen a beach this beautiful. Not even Thailand or Mauritius can beat this beauty! The water is turquoise everywhere, warm like a bathtub and the sand ... oh my ... the sand is as soft as the flour we use at home for baking (no kidding).

So a week of relax and chill? Actually yes, but it’s going to be a challenge. You know how I need stuff to do. On top of that I’m all by myself surrounded by couples, honeymooners and small groups of girlfriends ... but when the waiter asks for my order at dinner time my answer shall be “yes, just me” ... and I shall feel great about it every day 💛

This week’s challenge: Be happy all by yourself, alone yet never lonely 🙏🥰👩🏼💛 - without having anything to do (believe me, this is a tough one) 😱😬Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Hi pretty girl. Been praying for you every day. Look for God moments and be sure to share. How beautiful there!
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Matkaaja Thank you, Rosanne 😘
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Matkaaja Hi Marleen, have you read all your letters already? This could be a good time for that.
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Matkaaja Trans Africa 2019
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 11.2.2019
- ⛅ 29 °C
- Korkeus: 12 m
- Tansania Zanzibar North Region Matemwe -5.877768, 39.3529395°52’40” S 39°21’11” E
Päivä 10
Day 10: A culture of peace and happiness
11. helmikuuta 2019, Tansania ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Sorry for the late post...I’ve been busy doing nothing 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🌴🐬😎

You know what I love about this country? The Hakuna Matata attitude (Swahili, means „no worries“ - so no it’s not just a thing invented by Disney’s Lion King). Everyone seems to be relaxed and happy.

The best example of this is the many different tribes and religions living peacefully together in this county. Tanzania is home to more than 100 different ethnic groups and while approximately 60% of the population is Christian, there are also 35% of people following the Muslim belief (in Zanzibar it’s even more than 90%). And guess what, no war. No fights. No hate. 🙏💛

I find this fascinating. This is not exactly a rich country measured per GDP, but still the people living here manage to set an example for the world 👍✌️

One of the drivers I had told me that his dad is Muslim and his mom is Christian. On Sunday each of them attends a different service and the kids can chose whom to accompany until they are old enough to decide which faith to follow. I think this is fabulous. Absolutely fabulous. And I wish the rest of the world would do a better job in accepting people’s differences.

Okay so this day was a “critical about society” day ... having nothing to do but think, these are the thoughts running through my head 😂

PS: Simba is also Swahili language and means „Lion“...Disney apparently did a good research for their movie 🦁👌Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Thanks for sharing that happiness and tolerance part. I guess once the country gets globally more important, the desire for dominance and possession increases, and the power players use religion and ethnic belonging to manipulate, to create bias and conflict. It seems that we didn’t really develop that much since Homo sapiens left Africa.
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Matkaaja Great photos by the way. Thanks for sharing those, too
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Matkaaja Trans Africa 2019
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 12.2.2019
- ☁️ 30 °C
- Korkeus: 8 m
- Tansania Zanzibar North Region Matemwe -5.877922, 39.353025°52’41” S 39°21’11” E
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Päivä 11
Day 11: Nothing but rest and relaxation
12. helmikuuta 2019, Tansania ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
So far so good. I’ve managed quite a few days now without doing anything but hang at the beach. The result: I have finished reading one of two books (The Mastery of Love, a MUST READ) and I have red skin 🦞🦀

The book I have mentioned is about the mastery of self-love and so there is also a chapter about beauty, saying that basically we are all beautiful (because we are LIFE); it’s just our culture and society that have programmed us to judge what is beautiful and what is not.

Some food for thought. But I fully agree. Trust me, you will too if you think about it for a few minutes (really, read the book). The African people for example, have a completely different perception about what is beautiful than we do, so do Asians etc.

So today I will share some people pictures with you.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Wonderful 💕☺️
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Matkaaja How could one forget 😉
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Matkaaja These pics! Wow
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Matkaaja Trans Africa 2019
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 13.2.2019
- ⛅ 31 °C
- Korkeus: 8 m
- Tansania Zanzibar North Region Matemwe -5.877922, 39.353025°52’41” S 39°21’11” E
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Päivä 12
Day 12: 33 degrees and I have a cold
13. helmikuuta 2019, Tansania ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Really can you believe it? It’s hot, so hot and I have to stay in bed to survive a cold 🤧

Anyways ... I will be fine - as always 💪

But being with a cold, I have decided “that’s it”. No more relaxation. Apparently too much rest weakens my body 😉

So I have booked some trips for the remaining three days. I will keep you posted.

As I have not done anything special today (not even read), here are just some random photos I took during the day.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Looking good!
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Matkaaja That’s a very attractive, beautiful woman
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Matkaaja Love that face!
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Matkaaja Trans Africa 2019
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 14.2.2019
- ⛅ 32 °C
- Korkeus: 15 m
- Tansania Zanzibar North Region Kijini Makunge Mnemba Island -5.820829, 39.3832925°49’15” S 39°22’60” E
Päivä 13
Day 13: Finding Nemo
14. helmikuuta 2019, Tansania ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
So as promised yesterday, today was the day I actually left the hotel compound for the first time 😱

Still feeling awful from the cold and with a bad stomach ache, but I needed to get out. So snorkeling was today’s activity: On Mnemba island 🌴🐬🐠🐡🧜‍♀️ (Private island owned by Bill Gates ... you cannot set foot on this island without being fined 600 USD; if you want to enter legally, you have to stay at the island’s resort ... about 2,000 USD per night ... maybe next time 🤷🏼‍♀️)

It was fun. But now I look like a lobster from top to bottom 🦞😱🦞😱🦞

There are more pictures to come ... I just need to wait until I get them from the other tourists with the under water GoPro.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Stunning places. No need for a coach there I guess?
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Matkaaja Business coaching could work to help the local people get up on their feet 😉
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Matkaaja Not my calling I’m afraid 😟
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Matkaaja Trans Africa 2019
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 15.2.2019
- ⛅ 32 °C
- Korkeus: 8 m
- Tansania Zanzibar Urban/West Region Mwembetanga Stone Town -6.16206, 39.1920766°9’43” S 39°11’31” E
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Päivä 14
Day 14: Island explorer
15. helmikuuta 2019, Tansania ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
Today I visited a local spice farm (please look at the pineapple... did you know this is what a pineapple plant looks like?! 🍍) and Stone Town, the capital of this island 🌴

It was a nice trip but I feel so ready for being part of a group now. Activities like these are so much more fun if you can share them with others. Although ... I was never alone (as usual), I was always with a local guy ... and in Stone Town he taught me how to play a local game (loved it) 💛Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Wow, that’s beautiful craftsmanship
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Matkaaja Trans Africa 2019
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 16.2.2019
- ☀️ 32 °C
- Korkeus: 12 m
- Tansania Zanzibar North Region Matemwe -5.877741, 39.3530775°52’40” S 39°21’11” E
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Päivä 15
Day 15: Time to say goodbye
16. helmikuuta 2019, Tansania ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
Well, that’s it, today is my last day in paradise and also my last day in Tanzania - for now! Because I will come back in March.

I spent my last day at the beach, in the pool and outside of the hotel exploring the surroundings a bit ... see for yourself but to me it was quite shocking that I can stay at this beautiful resort and just behind its walls there is people living ... uhm ... differently.

Tanzania is a beautiful country. But it’s poor. It needs help. It deserves so much help because the people here are extremely friendly, they live in peace. So I’m already thinking about what I can do ...Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Omg that donkey is the cutest!!
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Matkaaja So, it seems that you found something for your heart. That’s good to know
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Matkaaja I agree about the donkey, Liz!!
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Matkaaja Trans Africa 2019
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 17.2.2019
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Korkeus: 1 659 m
- Kenia Nairobi Kirichwa Kubwa -1.275512, 36.8134471°16’32” S 36°48’48” E
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Päivä 16
Day 16: New beginnings
17. helmikuuta 2019, Kenia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪I have arrived safely in Kenia 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

Although I wasn’t sure I would make it. Zanzibar has a very confusing airport ... chances of missing your flight due to missing signs, info tables, staff, unclear announcements are about 50% I would say. Just have a look at my boarding pass 😂

But I’m here now and will depart with the group tomorrow morning at 6.30 am. It is very likely that I will be off for a few days due to lack of internet ... so no worries 😉Lue lisää
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Matkaaja 👌
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