Nicole's Adventures

No better night to reminisce upon our trip to Zanzibar than today. We have had three days of almost constant rain, and sideways blowing rain with lots of wind. Mel was dying yesterday without her normal afternoon walk so today I decided to brave the storm and well... I am not sure it was worth it! But at least she finally got to move her legs instead of spending her full day sleeping and lounging! Anyways back to Africa... The flight had some stunning views with clear sights of Mount Meru and then the majestic turquoise blue colors of the Indian Ocean from the sky was incredible. We arrived and had the difficult task of trying to estimate how much money we would need for the time we were staying in beach side on the eastern side of the island because there are no ATMs and cards are not accepted. We failed at that, but more on it later. We drove about 40 minutes across the inside of the island and along the coast until we reached Michamvi area, where Zeru Zeru was located. We ...

After our descent from the wonderful Kilimanjaro it was time for our safari!! I had never had never really heard much about safaris until meeting South Africans in Korea and meeting this older very well traveled British woman in Fiji. She mentioned that in all of her travels, her favorite experience was waking up in the Serengetti.. I did some googling when we got home from Fiji and had always wanted to visit since then. Our jeep for the week Our friend Jorge joined us for the rest of the trip. It was great fun to have him along. We were doing a budget safari and really had no idea what it would be like. Because we arrived to our safari pick up directly from Moshi town, we didn't have our briefing. We got in the car and there was a guy sitting up front listening to his own music and the driver. We drove around Arusha to pick up the next group. 3 girls who all met while working in Australia. One of them from Melbs/ Sydney, the other one from Norway, and the other Irish but ra...