After safari Tom and I went to Zanzibar for a relaxing beach holiday! We stayed in Stone Town for a night and then went snorkelling at prison island before heading off to the Northern secluded beach of Kendwa Rocks. During our stay we also visited the Red Colobus monkeys at Jazoni Forest which are indigenous to Zanzibar and went on a spice tour where we sampled exotic spices and fruits. Visiting Zanzibar was like travelling across the world to another co...

Tom and I visited a little village outside Arusha today called Ilkiding'a. It's a Wa'rusha village that is part of the community-based tourism programme that I am doing part of my research on. This programme is designed to bring tourists to these villages to see their culture and entrance fees raise money that is put towards community projects. Projects that we saw today included: a new primary school and a water pump that is accessible to the entire communi...

Tom and I visited a little village outside Arusha today called Ilkiding'a. It's a Wa'rusha village that is part of the community-based tourism programme that I am doing part of my research on. This programme is designed to bring tourists to these villages to see their culture and entrance fees raise money that is put towards community projects. Projects that we saw today included: a new primary school and a water pump that is accessible to the entire communi...

Hi everyone! Total count: 4 lepoards, 5 cheetahs, 59 lions (seriously), and hundreds of giraffes, elephants, baboons, vervet monkeys, hippos, and millions upon millions of zebras and wildebeest! The trip was amazing... first we had an evening in Lake Manyara, which is a park in the Great Rift Valley incorporating five different habitats, from rainforest through to savannah, all in a really compact area (about 5km by 20km I think). It was completely unli...

Hi Everyone! I'm back in Arusha with Tom waiting to go on Safari tomorrow!!! So Tom made it safely in Dar and we walked around yesterday and did some errands. Tom met some friends to talk about football (yes even in Dar he can talk about Liverpool) and hold his hand!! Haha..men if Africa like to hold hands and Tom (who is British and therefore hates any kind of human contact but from me) almost died. Today we flew to Arusha (check out the plane pics of M...