I had heard of APOPO rats a few years ago because there was a rat which had been awarded a bravery award. What luck that I ended up in the same town as the rats. Sadly they are nocturnal so if you want to see them you have to get up at the crack of… Read More »
I didn’t have any intention of coming back to Tanzania and when I said goodbye to people, most of them told me I’d back. I laughed at them but it seems they knew more than me. The UK was a very different place to the last time I was there. The place is depressed, people… Read More »
I definitely cannot bear the thought of a weekend in Morogoro and so I tolerate the five hour journey on a Friday and Monday. Last week I arrived at Morogoro bus station to find a bus about to leave and jumped on it. I couldn’t work out why the man took my ticket, swapped it… Read More »
The tide was in so I couldn’t walk on the beach at the hotel so I went along the road and then joined the beach further along where there was a greater expanse of sand. So local women said I was not allowed to take pictures of their seaweed hanging up to dry. It seemed… Read More »
I just checked and I didn’t go to Zanzibar at all during 2020. The whole place was full of COVID at that time anyway thanks to the pane loads of Russians and Eastern Europeans which we welcomed with open arms. Come to our paradise and bring your diseases, we don’t care as long as you… Read More »
The day I arrived in Kilwa I had the beach to myself. The next evening as the sun was getting low in the sky the beach started filling up with people. Before long the sun had gone and the beach was alive with women in their most colourful flowing robes, young girls with make-up and… Read More »
Kilwa is famous for its ruins and it’s nice for a change to take in something other than lions or a beach. So when my Turkish friend suggested joining them and their friends in Kilwa for a few days I was happy to go along. You have to have a guide to get to the… Read More »
I have always wanted to visit a salt farm and had been invited to go to one in Bagamoyo but I could never get there on public transport so when I was in Kilwa and heard about a salt farm there I was very keen to go and have look. There were two car-loads of… Read More »
It’s hard to find anything to buy here which is not tourist tat and I was keen to have something unique and meaningful to take home when my time is done. When I am sailing we are often in the same area of the fishing boats and canoes and I watch as they sail past.… Read More »
Beaches in Tanzania are busy places. More foten than not, there are fishermen with their wooden boats bringing in their catch or preparing to set sail. It is common to see men sitting on an old car tyre or piece of driftwood mending their nets and laying them out to dry. Old and broken fishing… Read More »