Volunteering week 2 and 3 - 11th June to 30th June Camp life A typical day in camp sees one of us (Tim) get up around 6:45 to start the charcoal fire for breakfast and coffee so we can be ready for work by 8am. It's handy having the work site so close because you can pop back and forth as you please. We normally take a break for a fresh orange at 10.30 and then back to work until lunch time. Sometimes we go back to work after lunch until 4 if there's enough wor...

Volunteering week 1 - 10th June 2013 to 17th June 2013 We arrived in Zanzibar airport to discover our flight time had been changed without any notification. Precision Air strikes again! After some confusion and waiting around, we landed in the chaotic Dar Es Salaam and were greeted by our volunteering contact and Polly, another volunteer and just your average girl from Newcastle starting at the same time as us. We headed back to the Salvation Army compound w...

Zanzibar - 29th May to 9th June Hello from Tanzania! So much has happened since we've been in Tanzania and we're having an amazing time, hopefully I can do it some justice on this blog. Our flight over to Zanzibar from London was pretty uneventful until we reached Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania where we were due to get a 20 minute domestic flight to Zanzibar to sun ourselves before our 7 week stint of volunteering. The flight with "Precision" air was delayed by 6...