Bagamoyo is a small coastal town on the coast of Tanzania about 1.5hrs drive north of Dar es Salaam. After Zanzibar we headed to Bagamoyo to check it out. Bagamoyo used to be a busy port supplying all of east africa before Dar es Salaam was established. Now its a ghost town.. unfortunately a lot of the beautiful architecture in the old town has gone to ruin. Basically now its a fishing village. It was Butch's birthday so we had a big party in the evening. We ha...

Zanzibar!!! So we caught a direct flight from Arusha, Tanzania to Stone Town, Zanzibar. When we arrived, half the groups luggage was lost including ours. Go figure they just didn't put the bags on! Luckily we managed to get our bags that evening so we could get our togs out. We spent 2 nights in Stone Town which is a world heritage site. It has amazing stone architecture and small alleyways reminiscent of its arab history. Stone used to be the last stop for the...

A quick addition to the Serengeti entry... We were fortunate on our way out of the Serengeti to visit a Maasai village. The Maasai people are allowed to continue living and grazing their cattle within the National Parks and conservation areas as they are self sufficient. They eat only milk, meat from the own cattle herd, and the blood from a cow... hmmm... The first 10 minutes of the experience were probably the most chaotic of my life to date! I didn't have a c...

"The Big 5" This might be a bit of a long one - sorry! but I want to try and give you a bit of an insight into 'the African way'... We were due to fly from Bukoba to Mwanza to meet with the safari trucks for our safari. When we got to the airport (a tiny building with a dirt airstip - which was fine) there were no staff and there was no plane. We were eventually told that the flight wasn't going due to technical problems which began a debate amongst ou...