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September 14, 2018
Tanzania Steve Catterall
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Friday, September 14, 2018 at 9:44 AM
⛅ 13 °C
Altitude: 73 m
England 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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Friday, September 14, 2018 at 3:45 PM
⛅ 23 °C
Altitude: 49 m
Turkey 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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Saturday, September 15, 2018 at 3:33 AM
🌙 22 °C
Altitude: 48 m
Tanzania 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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Saturday, September 15, 2018 at 3:41 PM
☀️ 27 °C
Altitude: 1,389 m
Tanzania 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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Sunday, September 16, 2018 at 5:50 PM
🌙 29 °C
Altitude: 993 m
Tanzania 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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Sunday, September 16, 2018 at 6:25 PM
🌙 29 °C
Altitude: 963 m
Tanzania 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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Monday, September 17, 2018 at 7:32 AM
☁️ 19 °C
Altitude: 961 m
Tanzania 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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Monday, September 17, 2018
☁️ 30 °C
Altitude: 1,440 m
Tanzania 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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Tuesday, September 18, 2018
⛅ 21 °C
Altitude: 2,314 m
Tanzania 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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Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 2:42 AM
☀️ 10 °C
Altitude: 2,314 m
Tanzania 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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Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 8:21 AM
☁️ 21 °C
Altitude: 1,387 m
Tanzania Arusha -3.3739, 36.684243°22’26” S 36°41’3” E
Arusha to zanzibar
September 20, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Back to arusha today for my flight to zanzibar. Ernest Hemingway once said... "I never knew of a morning in Africa, when I woke up and was not happyI", and I can truly say that my camping break has been great with fantasticly friendly people, awesome scenery and spectacular views of wildlife as it should be in its natural surrounds.Read more
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Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 11:08 AM
⛅ 22 °C
Altitude: 1,380 m
Tanzania Arusha Airport -3.36803, 36.624773°22’5” S 36°37’29” E
Ngunwi zanzibar
September 20, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Yet another tiny plane - six passengers arrived at zanzibar and then..... drive to ngunwi hotel.
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Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 6:11 PM
⛅ 26 °C
Altitude: 13 m
Tanzania Nungwi -5.72706, 39.291795°43’37” S 39°17’30” E
Zanzibar
September 20, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Well arrived and settled in nungwi - hotel right on the beach fantastic views and sunsets to die for
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Friday, September 21, 2018 at 9:07 PM
🌙 25 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Tanzania English Church -6.16221, 39.192076°9’44” S 39°11’31” E
Stonetown slave market
September 21, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ 🌙 25 °C
Wow the memorial is so powerful but its not until you actually go into the slave cells that you realise how harsh and inhuman human beings were treated by other humans!
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Friday, September 21, 2018 at 9:09 PM
🌙 25 °C
Altitude: 4 m
Tanzania Mapopwe -6.24154, 39.413956°14’30” S 39°24’50” E
Jozani mangove forest and monkeys
September 21, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ 🌙 25 °C
Red colubus monkeys and blue sky monkeys
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Friday, September 21, 2018
⛅ 27 °C
Altitude: 9 m
Tanzania Nungwi -5.72847, 39.291455°43’42” S 39°17’29” E
Stonetown
September 21, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Well a trip to stonetown isn't complete without a visit to the old town - its narrow streets are a cross between the alleyways of naples and any Arab souk!
Lots of hustle and bustle scooters attempting to run down any and everyone.
Apart from the slave market museum there are few sights worth seeing, livingstones House, fantastic wooden doors although many are reproductions it's possible to find some originals. There's an old Fort and not forgetting Freddy Mercury's birthplace!Read more
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Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 7:04 AM
⛅ 25 °C
Altitude: 5 m
Tanzania Nungwi -5.72843, 39.291725°43’42” S 39°17’30” E
A day on the beach and school visit
September 22, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Up early for a quick dip then at breakfast o e of the cooks said she would take me to see the headmaster at the local school so I could unload the things I had brought for them.
What an eye opener... 2500 pupils and 8 teachers. They have to teach the classes in shifts one group Mornings and the next in the afternoon. Very few chairs or desks with the kids sitting on the floor and only one computer in the whole school and that's in the office.
Yet despite this the children are taught 3 languages English Arabic and swahili as well as basic maths in the secondary they are also taught civils which is a mixture of politics and general studies.Read more
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Sunday, September 23, 2018 at 9:23 PM
☁️ 25 °C
Altitude: 10 m
Tanzania Kiamboni -6.0614, 39.205416°3’41” S 39°12’19” E
Cheetahs rock
September 23, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
I never thought it would be like it is, the owners have the utmost respect for their animals and this shows in the trust that the animals have with them.
To be able to enter a cage with bushbabies, a white lion, monkeys and a pair of cheetahs was astounding. To also hand feed a male white lion and a hyena was all beyond what I expected.Read more
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Monday, September 24, 2018 at 8:40 PM
⛅ 26 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Tanzania Nungwi -5.72708, 39.291895°43’37” S 39°17’31” E
Another beach day
September 24, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Nice stroll along the beach, went down to kenwa and the back all the way to the lighthouse.
Saw some starfish again - the beach looked different near the lighthouse with all the fishing boats in.
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Monday, September 24, 2018
⛅ 26 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Tanzania Nungwi -5.72704, 39.291925°43’37” S 39°17’31” E
Yet another day on the beach
September 24, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
I know it's hard but this beach is so cool - strolled along it to the tip of the island and visited the turtles
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 2:35 PM
⛅ 27 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Tanzania Nungwi -5.72708, 39.291915°43’37” S 39°17’31” E
Final full day
September 25, 2018 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Well today is about..... The beach an early Morning dip followed by a stroll through some of the shops to pick up some trinkets then I think to nite its lobster again

Joined for breakfast by a monkey and its baby who were just pass g byRead more
Some great pics Steve, looks like you had an amazing time
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Trip end
September 27, 2018