Tag Archives: Tanzania

Dar es Salaam Tanzania Warning

This was painted on the inside doors of all the bathroom doors. Were they just trying to keep the tourist dollars inside the camp? Who knows…

Zanzibar Tanzania Power

This is my power meter on my netbook. The reason for the picture is to remind me to include a comment about the perpetual power outages that I have experienced during my stay in Africa. Do they happen everyday? It seems so. When I think about it seems that they certainly average one every day. The one that prompted me to take this picture lasted over two hours and was the second one that day. Remember, we’ve been moving around Kenya and Tanzania during this time. These aren’t just localized to one area. I’ve seen power outages in lots of places, including my own home town, but these are quite frequent, relatively.

Zanzibar Tanzania Pool

I think this may have been one of the biggest swimming pools I have ever seen. It was at the Royal Zanzibar Resort. This section was one of three different levels of the pool. It looked like a thousand people could be swimming at one time in all three levels. It was enormous. The whole place was enormous and obviously out of my budget range. Dave and I wandered on it by mistake and as soon as we did we were accosted by security and politely escorted off of the premises. They did, however, walk us through the property to the front gate and allow me to stop and take a few pictures. Nice guys, but I don’t think I could have bribed them to let me swim in the pool.

Zanzibar Tanzania Beach

I’m on the beach. It’s a nice beach. Dave and I are checking out the dive shops. I’m pointing to one of the old style boats in the harbor. There were lots of them. Remember, Zanzibzr is an island. Virtually everything that comes here comes on a boat. I sat during lunch the same day and watched a bunch of locals wade into the water and unload all kinds of cargo by hand while he boat was anchored in the shallow area of the beach.

Zanzibar Tanzania Dinner

There are some advantages to traveling with a group and there are some disadvantages. One of the advantages is that you have a ready-made group of dinner companions. When there are 20 people in your group there is always someone to talk to. One thing about this trip is that I’m never lonely. That, of course, is not always an advantage.

Safari Trucks Kenya

The safari trucks are lined up at Karen Camp. This is place where people come to get their equipment ready to head out into Africa. Generally, they are going to Kenya and Tanzania, the two widely recognized locations for animal viewing. Karen camp is in no way a hotel. It’s a rough, rowdy place where overlanders and safari types come to get ready for their trip. Personally, I would never recommend that anyone ever go there to actually stay for any length of time. It’s too far away from anything to be a good location. It’s located in Karen, Kenya but too far outside of town to be close to any commercial activity. 20120531

Safaricom

If you are staying only in Kenya and Tanzania, you can get Safaricom. This is a Safaricom dongle. It gave me a somewhat to reasonably good internet connection while I was in the Nairobi area. The cost of the dongle itself was around $30. Karen Camp provided it to me free with a $30 deposit. The cost of the internet bandwidth was high, however. It is a prepaid service and the rates are at their Web site – safaricom.com. 20120530

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