Tanzania Travel Stories Travel Articles

Climbing Mt. Meru (1 of 2)

Mt. Meru lacks a lot of the things Kilimanjaro has

The Moon and the Music (2 of 2)

Tonight is the last night of the celebrations and as the children leave, the party turns from school fete to rave. Teenagers and twentysomethings are now bounding wildly around to tunes that become increasingly bombastic. Pushing aside the curtain onto the dance floor proper, the noise hits me like a wave as a perspiring DJ [...]

The Moon and the Music (1 of 2)

Waiting for the moon to end the fast of Ramadan in

Not quite ‘The Beach’

A journey in search of a beach paradise doesn't qu

Captivated in Coastal Tanzania (3 of 3)

Here’s something strange I learned: once you get used to the rocking motion of the boat at sea, the rocking doesn’t stop when you’re on land – bizarre, but true. This effect is especially pronounced in small spaces like showers and toilet cubicles, as well as when you close your eyes. It’s only made worse [...]

Captivated in Coastal Tanzania (2 of 3)

A few minutes in Stone Town are all you need to suss out the vibrant friendliness of the place. People walking by yell “Jambo!” in greeting, followed by an inquiring “Habari?” (“How are you?”), “Where are you from?” and “How do you like our Zanzibar?” Getting from one place to the next is very time [...]

Captivated in Coastal Tanzania (1 of 3)

Ainsley Robinson embarked on a magical yacht cruis

Beach? Smeach! (2 of 2)

I stick my head over the counter of the village shop and recoil as about 2,000 wasps fly up at me from the bags of mangos and grain on the floor. The shopkeeper looks astonished. Later I realise he always looks like this, and treats any request as though it is the most outrageous, insane [...]

Beach? Smeach! (1 of 2)

Gemma Pitcher spends New Year's Eve on Zanzibar an

This Bus Departs at Nine in the Morning (2 of 2)

On this extraordinary trip, in the dawn of the rainy season, we were ambushed by mud. As we scaled the side of the mountain, a mud pocket swallowed the two left tires of the bus. Tomatoes, kerosene jugs, greens, and other fish-stenching cargo began to trickle off the roof. The bus attendants dismounted and laboriously [...]