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Zanzibar Part II: Stone Town
Stone Town, the ancient part of Zanzibar Island’s largest city, is one of the most unique and beautiful places we’ve ever been, and instantly one of my favorite places we’ve visited. Its most striking feature is the layout of its streets, a winding, curving, jumbled maze of narrow alleyways that makes the city feel alive…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
Happy birthday to @Dekansf! Wish we were there to celebrate with you! xoxo # Yesterday: wandered past tea estate & into someone's house to try #Darjeeling #039;s finest, then had a gloriously delicious & cheap Tibetan meal # It takes several hrs, a few forms, a couple "official" stamps, 3 copies of your passport &…
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Zanzibar Part I: The All-Inclusive Experience
Along with climbing Kilimanjaro and going on safari, the third top destination (for good reason) in Tanzania is a trip to Zanzibar. Some of you may not know what/where Zanzibar really is, so first, some quick and cursory history! The Zanzibar Archipelago, which includes the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, served as one of East…
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Video Dump 3: Argentina, South Africa
Whoops, it’s been a little too long since we went back and found all the videos that didn’t make their way into a blog post, so this round-up takes us all the way back to the end of our South America leg, and into the beginning of our Africa leg! First, a huge drum troupe…
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Yum: Coca Cola’s East African Concoctions
It’s simple: Tanzania won the soda lottery. I don’t know what we Americans did to piss off the Coca-Cola company, causing them to deprive the U.S. of the incredibly tasty Krest Bitter Lemon and Stoney Tangawizi, but trust me, we’re missing out! Bitter Lemon is refreshing, crisp, and tastes like a strong lemonade but without…
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Northern Tanzania Safari
Having successfully bagged our first ever high-altitude peak, it was time for some wildlife viewing in northern Tanzania’s famous national park circuit. Six more of our friends from DC met us in Moshi on Christmas Eve, making for a total of 12 of us, and we spent the day catching up and had some of…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
Related: screw @Avis for charging a $28 "service fee" per ticket just for handing over speeding tickets to another agency who will bill us. # "We" have broken 2 kindles in 2 months and "we" got 3 speeding tickets in South Africa. Ah … marriage and travel … good times! # OH (Ugandans):woman entering 5person…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
Just bought our plane tickets to #India Can't wait for continent number 3 in just 9 days (and visits from @cutenfun and @Ben_Kettle!) # Had an awesome day rafting & riverboarding Class V rapids on the #Nile Can't wait to do it again in the next few months! #Jinja #Uganda # Some #Mets pitcher is…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
so long #Tanzania You've been very good to us but now it's time to head to #Uganda for some volunteering! # Sweating my face off like @theBrownBlazer in Zanzibar! Maybe Uganda will be cooler? Ha! # Loving #Stonetown #Zanzibar, our home for the next 4 days…makes us want to go to the Middle East/Turkey… #…
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Hiking Mount Kilimanjaro
We’re normally well prepared and well informed about the destinations that we visit, but this leg of the journey was special, everything being planned in advance by our wonderful friends who came halfway around the world to visit us. The agenda consisted of a seven-day climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro, a four-day safari through Northeast Tanzania’s…
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