Here is my last post for this trip. The trip is completed and I sold the vehicle, the fridge, and all the stuff I cumulated for a number of years.I take...

This park is the smallest of Tanzania with only 52 km². However, it is an important one since it shelters a small population of chimpanzees.It...

I wasn't sure about visiting this park since tsetse flies have a reputation for being nasty. In the end, I spent a whole day there. Wow, it is a very...

Lake Tanganyika is the second-biggest freshwater lake in the world (in volume). It is also the second deepest in the world.The lake extends for 676 km...

Here are miscellaneous photos. A restaurant with a baobab in the middle...

Around midday, I went to a picnic site to have a lunch. I wasn't paying attention to what was going on around me.As soon as I opened the door to get out...

The Selous is the largest reserve of Africa with 54,600 km². The reserve was once famous for its large herds of elephants. Unfortunately...

East Africa was known by the Greeks since 400 BC. Important trading posts had been established in the region. In the early part of the first millennium...

Here are a few pictures of our last week in Tanzania. We spent times around Lake Victoria relaxing and exploring the area. The town of Bukoba is located...

We visited this museum for two reasons. The first was that we wanted to learn about one of the many cultures (tribe) in the country. The second was that...

Lake Victoria is the largest in Africa and the second largest fresh water lake in the world (after Lake Superior in Canada). This vast region is very...

If you ever watched an animal documentary, chance that one of them was filmed in the Serengeti is quite high. This park is probably the most famous of...

The road between Mto wa Mbu and Lake Natron is very beautiful. It is Maasai territory, a very colourful tribe living a very traditional life. A lot of...

The Ngorongoro crater is one of the most impressive sights of Tanzania. This crater is the biggest complete (the walls are intact) and not flooded caldera...

Lake Manyara is at the heart of the Rift Valley. This park is very nice in the good season when numerous migratory birds stop in it. The park is located...

I already visited this park in 2011 and published a blog (see Tarangire National Park). Since I liked this park a lot and that I believed that Melanie...

After Melanie's arrival, we stayed a couple of days in Arusha in order to finish fitting the van and do some shopping. Where we were staying, there is...

During my first trip (), the vehicle did not contain a bed, nor any storage compartments for equipment and food. For this trip of nearly 6 months in East...

When I was in the Usambara Mountains, I camped at a very nice place called Mambo Viewpoint. At this place, the owners talk to me about a 4x4 path going...

The Usambara mountains are less visited and also not well known compared to the busy sites such as Kilimanjaro, Serengeti or Zanzibar. However, I found...

Pangani is a small town that had some importance when the Arabs were involved in trading along the coast of Tanzania (Zanzibar among others).Caravans...

I stopped on a beach to relax, read and drink a few beers. It was a welcome break, but after 2 days with temperature around 35 degrees, I hit the road...

Saadani in the only coastal park of Tanzania. Very few animals can be seen, but on the flip side landscapes are beautiful. First mud hole to test my new...

On the Indian Ocean Coast, north of Bagamoyo, I stumbled upon this salt production plant.Big ponds are filled with a few centimetres of sea water. Then...

Bagamoyo is a small city on the Indian Ocean Coast. It has been a city of importance in the 1800s. Around the beginning of the 1800s, Bagamoyo was the...

This park is located more or less in the centre of the country. With the recent addition of a huge area of marshland to the park, it has become the biggest...

The image often conveyed by the media, often shows children in misery or within a refugee camp with a big belly and flies on their face and also with...

At several places around Kolo Village in the Irangi Hills, there are rock paintings, some of which date from some 3000 years and others only a few centuries...

« On the road » is a title I use for a series of photo without any precise theme or to group several topics in one blog. They are photos taken...

This is a short story to show you how close animals can be seen in parks. If you think this elephant was taken with a super zoom, you are dead wrong...

Located in the north of Tanzania, this park is among the famous parks of the northern circuit such as the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro. This small park...

Here is the vehicle as bought: a Toyota HiAce 1994; 4 wheel-drive. After buying the vehicle, I made the following modifications:...

The Maasai people are found mainly in the north of Tanzania and the south of Kenya. They are pastoralists and semi-nomad warriors. They are well known...

Serengeti, a name that conjured dreams long before I set foot there. Younger, I watched plenty of documentaries on African animals and it was so fascinating...

We are now in the Ngorongoro, a conservation area where the Maasai people also live. Surprisingly, they share the land with lions, leopards, and hyenas...

After the treks to the summit of Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro, there is nothing more fun than going in safari for a few days. It is so easy as it...

Zanzibar is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean located east of Tanzania. The three main islands are Unguja, also called Zanzibar, Pemba to the north...

I found this aerial photo of Kibo on the Internet... I edited it to clearly show the trail we follow. On day 4, we sleep at School Hut at 4700 metres...

The trek to the summit of Kilimanjaro takes place over a period of seven days; we reach our goal at dawn on day 6. It's a long and somewhat difficult...

The trek to the summit of Mount Meru in the Arusha National Park is done in 4 days. On day 1, we leave the hotel to go to the park, and after checking-in...

Treks and safaris in Tanzania are organized with local companies that provide fantastic logistical support. Make no mistake about it, it's the local team...