Tanzania travel stories

Day 13. Thu 3rd October Dodoma to Udzungwa

We finally arrive in Dodoma about 02:00. Ken wakes us one station before, and we grab our luggage and stagger off the train still half asleep. Outside the station we are reunited with Pete, Auxies ...

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Day 12. Wed 2nd October Kigoma to Dodoma

We are awoken in the middle of the night by a tremendous crash which throws Andy's water bottles of their shelf, flooding the compartment and our luggage with 3 litres of water. In the morning ...

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Day 11. Tue 1st October Ujiji

Today we take a taxi to visit nearby Ujiji, one of the oldest towns in Tanzania, and the place where Dr. David Livingstone, his provisions stolen and deserted by most of his retinue, was found in t...

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Day 10. Mon 30th September Gombe Streams NP

Today we visit the Gombe Streams National Park, the longest running primate research project in the world, started by Jane Goodall in 1960 and now taken over by Charlotte Uhlenbroek. The park can o...

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Day 9. Sun 29th September Kigoma

We arrive at Kigoma in the early hours of the morning, and anchor in the harbour. The itinerary states that we will be ferried to shore in fishing boats, but this hardly seems feasible considering ...

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