Our day started a lot earlier today, we were up and out of the house by 08:30am. Arnold, Rich, Suzi and I went on a Dar bicycle tour. The bicycle tour was really interesting; we went through many different villages. One of the first stops we saw a man making a sweet snack of peanuts, caramelised sugar and wheat flour. The next stop we had african tea and chapati's for breakfast. The tour took us through the more disadvantaged areas of Dar es Salaam. It was amazi...

A nice lye in today.... When I woke up Arnold's chef was in the kitchen preparing lunch. I drifted back off to sleep and got back up after midday. Arnold's chef made us pancakes for breakfast, or brunch I should say. I've never known pancakes to taste so good, I mean I know they're nice anyway, but these were delicious! Something so simple made to taste so much nicer than any other pancakes that I've tried. We were going to head to the beach but it was cloudy an...

This morning we were up and ready to leave for 6:30am, we asked the lady at the lodge if our breakfast was ready to tale with us but she said that they had prepared it for us to sit down. We had melon to start followed by a cooked breakfast. They even catered for my gluteen free and made me some special pancakes instead of giving me bread which was a nice gesture! And greatly appreciated. The breakfast was delicious and set us all up for our day ahead. We headed...

Yesterday was a very lazy day for us... So last that I can't remember what we did and it's not worth writing about. Today however, wow, an eventful trip! Arnold's cousin Suzi is coming with us on safari, she is 13 years old and lives in ohio but is visiting family in Tanzania for 5 weeks. So we left for Mikomi National Park at 5am, the journey takes around 5-6hours depending on traffic. At 7:30am the driver stopped to say that we had a puncture, we all got out o...

This afternoon Rich, Arnold and I headed down to the yacht club where there is a small beach for members. Everyone on the beach was European. Arnold doesn't like thr Sun so he sat in the shade sulking whilst Rich and I relaxed on the beach catching some rays. The sea was lovely and warm, and no sea urchins, although I did have my eyes peeled! Once the sun started going down we had a grilled fish buffet and ate it on the beach watching the sunset. A very nice, re...