Am on Zanzibar. I hereby refuse to recommend Safari Planners as a safari organiser, ‘cos they are not organised, and the director flat out lied to us last night when he said he had our names down for the ferry today, and would bring our tickets in the morning. This morning, we drove down to the ferry, and then he took our names and nationalities, and went and bought our tickets. Still we got on the ferry, and got here, and his guy on Zanzibar is far better organised and personable than he is. We may have been screwed out of a bit of cash, but we are in Zanzibar and we have a nice hotel in Stone Town (with a TV and Setanta Sports no less, so we caught up on the Lions injury list whilst cleaning up after the ferry). Tomorrow we are spice touring, and on Friday off to Jambiani on the east coast for a couple of days on the beach. Today we have been for ice cream and cake on the waterfront, and browsing the shops to get some ideas of prices for haggling, and work out what we want to buy when we come back to Stone Town on Monday. Epic numbers of shawls, and Barack Obama kangas are on the list.
So, we were last heard from about to head out on safari. Clearly we were not eaten by lions or leopards. Our one leopard peed on the front wheel of our car though, so we now belongs to it. TONS of Lions. We are totally blase about them now, but not about Cheetahs, which are still awesomeness. And we saw lots of them – about five up close. SQUEEEEE. Got eaten alive by various bugses, but totally worth it, and were camping on the Ngorogoro Crater rim when news about Roger Federer’s French Open victory came through (amazing signal in the Serengeti and Ngorogoro), so we did a little dance of glee along the edge, and then hopped back into our sleeping bags, for it was COLD. Acutally had to wear two long sleeved layers. Wild.
This evening we are off to be hopelessly colonial and have drinks on the roof at the Africa House hotel, and then to the night market for fresh cooked fish. And then to get lost on the way back to the hotel. Erm.
June 10th, 2009 on 12:10
I don't think I could be more jealous right now…
June 11th, 2009 on 09:35
I have been looking forward to this for MONTHS.