by Carlo | Feb 5, 2009 | Personal Takes
The Serengeti is Africa’s most famous game reserve, renowned for its dense predator population and annual wildebeest migration. The Serengeti is so vast and barren that it covers an area of over 15,000km2.…which is the approx size of Northern Ireland! To put it...Tags: Africa, Tanzania
by Carlo | Jan 29, 2009 | Personal Takes
Well we’ve been informed that we don’t have to teach monday or tuesday next week due some local tribe celebrations so we decided that instead of scratching ourselves for four days, that we’d go ahead and book a four day safari into the serengiti! So...Tags: Africa, Tanzania
by Carlo | Jan 26, 2009 | Personal Takes
Friday 23rd Jan. Well we have finished our first full week of volunteer work. We are positioned and a pre-primary school called Meru view. It got its name as its located at the foot of Mt Meru, which is the fifth largest mountain in Africa. The school is very basic....Tags: Africa, Tanzania
by Carlo | Jan 19, 2009 | Personal Takes
Its 7pm on Friday and I’m here writing this at our hostel in Arusha. We arrived yesterday from Nairobi after 8 hours of a pure and utter hell of a bus journey. The main road from Nairobi to Arusha is nothing more than a dirt road. Imagine 8 hours of constant jumping...Tags: Africa, Tanzania
