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ENTRIES FROM THIS CATEGORY
- Racing The Sun To Tanzania
- Mad Dash to Dar - Tomorrow in Tanzania - And We Clik! - Cashless. - Harder Than They Say - Into Thin Air - Surviving Kilimanjaro - The Path Of The Other Coin - Modern Maasai - Crater Of Life - Stranded in the Serengeti - Migration - Straight From The Source - The Man And The Refrigerator - The Ultimate Day - Apologies and Farewells - The Zanzibar Connection - Street Boys - Dolphins, Monkeys and Queen - Spice Island - The Things Up North - Kendwa'd Without Ken - Caught Up In Stone Town - Closure In Tanzania |
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April 29, 2004
Racing The Sun To TanzaniaDAY 191: My goal of the day was to make it to the southern Tanzanian city of Mbeya, 120 km. north of the Malawian/Tanzanian border. I questioned whether or not I would make it before the sun went down so...Read this entry Mad Dash to DarDAY 192: Before the sun was awake, I was awaken around five in the morning by the chants and Muslim prayers coming from two different sets of loudspeakers from what I gathered were in two points of town, one somewhat...Read this entry May 12, 2004
Tomorrow in TanzaniaDAY 193: For most of my days on The Global Trip 2004, I often wonder what the next day will bring. While some people need to plan a long way in advance and know what they'll do the next day...Read this entry And We Clik!DAY 194: Peter, also known as Goba, a Tanzanian rastafarian I met in Nkhata Bay, Malawi, referred me to the Tin Tin Tours agency in Moshi, Tanzania. Although he didn't have one of their business cards with him, he wrote...Read this entry Cashless.DAY 195: On Easter weekend, I found myself stranded in Livingstone, Zambia without any money because all the in-town ATMs only accepted Visa/Plus/Electron-based bank cards and my Citibank ATM card was on the MasterCard/Cirrus/Maestro network. It's true what the Visa...Read this entry Harder Than They SayDAY 196: Mount Kilimanjaro, known locally as "Mt. Kili" or just "Kili," contains the African continent's highest peak at 19,338 ft. (5896 m.) ASL. Some guy at the Tanzanian National Parks Department with a penchant for superlatives also boasts it...Read this entry Into Thin AirDAY 197: In 2001, Blogreader oogy and I hiked the Inca Trail in Peru to the archaelogical site of Machu Picchu, high up in the Andes Mountain Range. This four-day trail took us to altitudes of just over 13,000 ft....Read this entry Surviving KilimanjaroDAY 198: Perhaps it was Ernest Hemingway's classic novella The Snows of Kilimanjaro that spawned the popularity of trekking the African mountain; each year hundreds of tourists flock to Tanzania with plans to "conquer Kili." However, the mountain that Hemingway...Read this entry The Path Of The Other CoinDAY 199: On Day 193: Tomorrow in Tanzania, it was up in the air where I would go after Dar-es-Salaam. I had boiled down my plethora of options to just two: 1) go to the touristic town of Arusha and...Read this entry Modern MaasaiDAY 200: You may have seen footage of the Maasai tribal people of eastern Africa in movies or documentaries. These people of the Tanzanian-Kenyan border region have maintained their cultural identity for centuries, often seen wearing red cloaks known as...Read this entry Crater Of LifeDAY 201: Two million years ago, lava erupted from a hole in the earth's crust in what would later be known as Tanzania. The lava spewed out and cooled, layer after layer until a big volcano was formed, just east...Read this entry Stranded in the SerengetiDAY 202: The Serengeti, the vast grassland measuring over 9,100 square miles (over 14,700 sq. km.) in the northwest of Tanzania, is home to a multitude of mammals, reptiles, birds and insects all living in a grand circle of life....Read this entry May 13, 2004
MigrationDAY 203: Every year, the wildebeests (a.k.a. gnus) of the Serengeti plain migrate back and forth between Tanzania and Kenya, following the rains that grow the grass they require for survival. The month of May being the rainy season in...Read this entry Straight From The SourceDAY 204: Lake Victoria, Africa's biggest (and the world's second largest) lake, encompasses over 42,000 square miles (68,800 sq. km.) within the boundaries of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. With the force of gravity, its millions of gallons of freshwater flow...Read this entry The Man And The RefrigeratorDAY 205: "Wow, I haven't seen one of these in a while," I said to Tony in the kitchen as he made his morning coffee before going to work. I went to get some milk. "What, a refrigerator?" "Yeah." After...Read this entry The Ultimate DayDAY 206: In the morning I had no plans to do much in and around Tony and Ted's apartment while they were away at work (Ted was feeling better, so he went in too) other than continue to catch up...Read this entry May 15, 2004
Apologies and FarewellsDAY 207: "How was your safari?" Jimmy, my Kilimanjaro guide asked when I ran into him on the road when walking around Moshi town to run errands. "Oh..." I groaned with a smile. "It was... memorable." I told him about...Read this entry May 16, 2004
The Zanzibar ConnectionDAY 208: I suppose a lot more good things came out of the mugging at knifepoint in Cape Town than bad ones. Ever since the incident, my itinerary had been sent on a tangeant that led me to connections I...Read this entry May 21, 2004
Street BoysDAY 209: The touts of Stone Town usually hang around the main ferry port area where tourists come and go on the two-hour ferry ride to and from mainland Dar-es-Salaam. Most of these touts, which Willie refers to as "Street...Read this entry Dolphins, Monkeys and QueenDAY 210: A German ex-pat named Thomas living and doing PhD. research in the other main Zanzibar island of Pemba was sitting in the back seat of a minivan. With him was only his visiting friend Volker from their hometown...Read this entry Spice IslandDAY 211: What would the world be like without spices? For one, Colonel Sanders and his Kentucky Fried Chicken would have eleven less ingredients to put in his secret recipe and probably be out of business. TV chef Emeril Lagasse...Read this entry May 23, 2004
The Things Up NorthDAY 212: When Kazim took us to the beach as part of the Spice Tour the day before, there were two British guys that refused to go in the water. Their reason: they had spent some days up at the...Read this entry Kendwa'd Without KenDAY 213: The Mnemba Atoll, the coral reef and island pair off the northeast coast of Zanzibar's Unguja Island, is arguably one of the world's premiere scuba diving destinations, sporting an impressive display of tropical marine life. Most people have...Read this entry Caught Up In Stone TownDAY 214: The north coast of Unguja Island, Zanzibar is the kind of place you go and sort of realize, "Hey, I think I might just live here and do nothing." While that idea was promising, it was detrimental to...Read this entry Closure In TanzaniaDAY 215: My plan for the day was to continue to stay in my room, chill out and work on the arduous task of writing, but little did I know when I woke up that morning that one event would...Read this entry |