After several cancelled flights, we finally made it to the island of Zanzibar for a few days of complete contrast to the safari. I had intended to go to a forest where red colobus monkeys live as I hadn’t seen them before, but had a pleasant surprise to discover a troupe roaming in the hotel grounds. A couple of times […]
The last day of safari was spent in Tarangire national park before heading back to Kilimanjaro after lunch for an overnight stay before flying on to Zanzibar. Tarangire has many baobab trees, which are the giants in Africa and can live for up to 600 years. We spotted a small group of Waterbuck, which are very distinctive especially when viewed […]
An early morning and cool start saw us heading down into the Ngorongoro crater, a place that I’d heard of for many years. It’s an UNESCO World Heritage Site and the world’s largest inactive, unbroken and unfilled volcanic caldera. Absolutely nothing had prepared me for just how vast it is however. When it was a volcano it’s thought to have […]
Visiting Tanzania during a pandemic proved to be an excellent time to go. Normally the national parks would be full of vehicles, but there was hardly anyone there so we had sightings pretty much to ourselves. Here is a selection of photographs from two days spent there. A lone bull crosses in front of us, whilst the rest of the […]
Our second day of the safari was spent in Lake Manyara national park. Here are a few photos I captured that day. Below: Baboons, Vervet Monkey & Blue Monkey. Below: Baboons. This baby spent quite some time scampering around this tree, lying back and relaxing, then his mum checked whether he had washed behind his ears that morning. Below: A […]
I consider myself lucky that I managed to get away twice last year. Vietnam in February, just as the Covid-19 pandemic was starting its worldwide spread, and Tanzania in October, as that was one of the few countries that didn’t have restrictions. I’d booked with a fantastic company, Shemeji Safaris, and in view of the unknown situation, I didn’t have […]
Tanzania Part 1. Kilimanjaro region and Arusha National Park.Read More »
Whilst walking along the beach late one afternoon I saw several small fires in the distance. As I got closer it looked as if several boats were being burned. It took a while to work out that they use this method to get rid of the algae, and because the wood is so hard, the whole thing doesn’t go up […]
As if turquoise seas, white sand and blue skies weren’t enough colour, throw in a beach festival and I was in my element with my camera. African Impact had a ‘table’ there to help spread the message about conservation and the need for ethical dolphin tourism. There was a huge gathering of children on the first morning and they were […]
After I left Kenya I flew to Zanzibar, an Island that has appealed to me for a long time and the photo above shows just one reason! I spent two weeks there volunteering on another African Impact project – wildlife again, but this time in the sea and not on land. Volunteering there meant taking part in a research project […]
Zanzibar. Part 1. Marine Conservation VolunteeringRead More »
