Time is making like Tom and Cruising by. Tomorrow we depart Tanzania and head further east to land of the Thais. Like one of those 14 year old Romanian gymnasts, heading to Ngorongoro and Serengeti on day 2 of our 200 day journey may prove to be a case of peaking too early. Still lots of highs to come though.
After our initial safari adventure we have spent around two weeks at Elliot and Jana´s stunning house at Lengijave, just outside Arusha. Life has been extremely relaxing with time spent reading, occasional hiking, cooking, eating and card games. And of course chasing Oskar Fulvio. When he isn´t busy terrorizing the poor cat or barking at the German Shepherd, he is typically up by the chicken cage feeding/yelling at the poor flightless birds and messing up their egg cycle. His face is constatnly covered in dirt no matter how often we try to clean him. The local Maasai boys and girls roaming the hills herding their cattle are somehow never as dirty as him. He has also started climbing trees which means we constantly have to be on watch.
As a way too brief interlude to our time at Lengijave, we spent three or four days at Pangani last weekend on the Tanzanian coast. Elliot and Jana had rented a beautiful house on the beach and we tagged along for the 10 hour car ride, which felt much shorter thanks to intense listening of the Serial podcast. We can strongly recommend Pangani for those who intend to make a trip to Tanzania in the future. Definitely off the beaten path, around a 1.5 hour boat ride from Zanzibar. Gordeous, rugged beaches lined with palm trees. Perhaps a bit too much seaweed to be called pristine but we loved it. In a way it also served as a trial ahead of our time in Southeast Asia where 90% of our time will be spent on the beach. We now know that Oskar Fulvio loves to go in the ocean, and surprisngly he was not foolish enough to jump in without his swim vest thingy.
Other highlights in Tanzania have included barbequing goat legs around the camp fire, sipping on 1 to a few delicious beers per day, eating excellent Indian and Ethiopian food, seeing an octopus while snorkeling, Olof taking pictures and fatifying the little Maasai kids on the hill, and borrowing Elliot´s Pajero and driving on shaky roads around the fields and traffic of Arush while in solitude sing-screaming The Proclaimers (“I would walk 500 miles”). Lowlights would include pulling my hamstring 5 minutes into a game of touch Rugby, trying to sprint for the first time in over 5 years. Also wouldn’t recommend making Somalian jokes in front of people you are meeting for the first time, especially when you´re in Africa (caution: may lead to mixed responses).
So thanks to Elliot and Jana for letting us enjoy your company and hospitality for the last few weeks. It is time to move on and we are flying from Kilimanjaro through Nairobi (12 hour layover, yeehah!) and onwards to the Bangkok.
Until next time!
PS. Sorry for messed up formatting
As a way too brief interlude to our time at Lengijave, we spent three or four days at Pangani last weekend on the Tanzanian coast. Elliot and Jana had rented a beautiful house on the beach and we tagged along for the 10 hour car ride, which felt much shorter thanks to intense listening of the Serial podcast. We can strongly recommend Pangani for those who intend to make a trip to Tanzania in the future. Definitely off the beaten path, around a 1.5 hour boat ride from Zanzibar. Gordeous, rugged beaches lined with palm trees. Perhaps a bit too much seaweed to be called pristine but we loved it. In a way it also served as a trial ahead of our time in Southeast Asia where 90% of our time will be spent on the beach. We now know that Oskar Fulvio loves to go in the ocean, and surprisngly he was not foolish enough to jump in without his swim vest thingy.
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