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Steve Catterall Tanzania
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- Sep 14, 2018, 9:44am
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitude: 73 m
- England Ringway Manchester Airport 53.36151, -2.2751253°21’41” N 2°16’30” W
The journey begins
September 14, 2018 in England ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Well I'm sat here in Manchester Airport wondering how this trip will go - a long journey as I won't arrive in arusha until 9.00am on Saturday,
Ive a short stop at Istanbul and hope to arrive at dar es salaam around 2.00am and from what I've read it may take up to 3 hours to clear immigration
Whether that's the most arduous bit of the journey remains to be seen as I'm then on the first flight out to arusha and that's 2hours on some tiny flying machineRead more
This is awesome Steve, looking forward to following your travels. Grace x
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- Sep 14, 2018, 3:45pm
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 49 m
- Turkey Istanbul Şenlikköy Istanbul Atatürk Airport 40.97658, 28.8164540°58’36” N 28°48’59” E
Istanbul
September 14, 2018 in Turkey ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Well arrived on time but a bit shocked to see signs telling me it's a 35 minute walk through the terminal to gate 311!

Clearly whoever timed it didn't take inro account the throngs of people shopping in what can only be described as the Turkish blue water shopping centre 🙄Read more
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- Sep 15, 2018, 3:33am
- 🌙 22 °C
- Altitude: 48 m
- Tanzania Dar es Salaam Region Kipawa Banana Julius Nyerere International Airport -6.86475, 39.207556°51’53” S 39°12’27” E
Dar es salaam
September 15, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
Well arrived at 02.15 and I've managed to get through immigration by 03.30, that's quicker than I expected but probably due to the flight in being half empty.

It's very beauraucratic - join a queue for fingerprinting and eye scanning, show proof of where you're staying and return flight _
Then join another queue to pay fifty dollars for the visa, then they take your money and passport and you join another queue to wait for it back! And it's been hours! Not done one first in first out but random and then an immigration official stands and shouts names out lol
Glad there wasn't any other flights arriving or it would have been hours

Now just to wait for the other terminal to open for next flight to arusha - hopefully I'm being met at the airport and then taken to my hotel for the day /nightRead more
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- Sep 15, 2018, 3:41pm
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 1,389 m
- Tanzania Arusha Levolosi Arusha -3.37221, 36.68423°22’20” S 36°41’3” E
Arusha
September 15, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Coming in to arusha there's a really good view of Mount kilimanjaro
And when I finally arrive at Arusha first thing is to meet my guide and find my hotel then I think some well deserved shut eye time.Read more
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- Sep 16, 2018, 5:50pm
- 🌙 29 °C
- Altitude: 993 m
- Tanzania Manyara Mwada Sangawi -3.95067, 35.866133°57’2” S 35°51’58” E
Tarangire national park
September 16, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ 🌙 29 °C
What a fantastic day its been herds of elephants zebra, wildebeest roaming around and close up, saw a pride of lions sleeping under a tree for shade _don't think I have the words yet for such sights as seeing these free to roamRead more
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- Sep 16, 2018, 6:25pm
- 🌙 29 °C
- Altitude: 963 m
- Tanzania Arusha Majengo Mto wa Mbu -3.3747, 35.866633°22’29” S 35°51’60” E
Campsite
September 16, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ 🌙 29 °C
Well reached my first campsite - halfway to next park
Now for a good night's sleep. Well it certainly wasn't quiet - lots of rustling around outside the tent all sorts of bird noises. Then woken up to a stork on patrol.Read more
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- Sep 17, 2018, 7:32am
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 961 m
- Tanzania Arusha Majengo Mto wa Mbu -3.37506, 35.866453°22’30” S 35°51’59” E
Serengetti
September 17, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Early start up and along ngorongoro crater rim and then to the serengetti for afternoon game drive.
Saw different animals today but highlight was between a leapard resting and a pride of lions merrily walking along the road, one lioness set off chasing a rabbit but bugsy won for another day.
Also visited a masai trbe camp - certainly brings home how people can live - although I think some of this was stage managed - greeted by chief, welcome dance, tour of home then school and choice to buy souvenirs from them.
But still it's thought provoking
Different campsite to nite - we've been told to keep everything in our tents to nite because hyenas visit during the night - we will see what morning brings as we have a sunrise game driveRead more
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- Sep 17, 2018
- ☁️ 30 °C
- Altitude: 1,440 m
- Tanzania Mara Ikoma Banagi Banagi Hill -2.3888, 34.819112°23’20” S 34°49’9” E
Serengetti morning game drive
September 17, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
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- Sep 18, 2018
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitude: 2,314 m
- Tanzania Arusha Ngorongoro -3.22892, 35.490763°13’44” S 35°29’27” E
Serengetti to simba camp
September 18, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Today we stopped to watch Waterbuffalo Cross our path on their migration route.
Once at our campsite we found we were sharing the site with a small group of
Zebras who just looked and really didn't care about us being thereRead more
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- Sep 19, 2018, 2:42am
- ☀️ 10 °C
- Altitude: 2,314 m
- Tanzania Arusha Ngorongoro -3.2289, 35.490783°13’44” S 35°29’27” E
Simba camp through crater base to arusha
September 19, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Today we awoke to the campsite sitting in the low clouds, as we left simba to go into the crater thi gs cleared and we entered what is really a complete biosystem
To see lions sat just a few hundred metres away from a herd of zebras and gazelles was really greatRead more
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