My cousin Hannah and her fiancee Martyn were due to get married in Malawi on 10th August 2022. Suma has family in central and southern Tanzania. It seemed that a road trip was in order, and we had 6 weeks in which to do it… Dar Es Salaam We hung out in Dar for a couple of days with Suma’s brother Jones, it was great to catch up with him again. A priority was to...
Almost everybody who comes to Tanzania for a safari goes up to the northern part of the country, home to the world-famous Serengeti and Ngorongoro National Parks. Mount Kilimanjaro is also up in the north. As a result, the northern parks can be extremely busy. It is not uncommon to see 50-plus vehicles surrounding a leopard or lion kill, which can detract somewhat...
If you have the time, driving is the best way to explore the vast and beautifully diverse country that is Tanzania. Driving in Tanzania can be both liberating and terrifying. There is no idiotic road-rage nonsense because nobody cares about road rules. There is a degree of freedom that you just don’t get in the Western world. If your vehicle will physically fit...
General info about Tanzania: Lying just south of the equator, Tanzania is located in the tropics and has a hot climate. They have 2 seasons: warm and dry, coinciding with the northern hemisphere summer. Hot and wet, roughly in the northern hemisphere winter months. The landscape is very diverse: tropical islands like Zanzibar, Pemba, and Mafia. The whole...