Dar Es Salaam

Travel Troubled Times In Tanzania – How It All Ended

“The room is pitch black as I wake to the sounds of my son violently throws up in his sleep at 2:00 a.m. We are in the middle of a power blackout, in the middle of the night, in the middle of the suburbs of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania, Africa. It’s two hours before […]

Travel Troubled Times In Tanzania – How It All Started

I’m in love with Africa. I have been from the first day I stepped foot on this massive continent made up of some 54 countries of which I’ve so far only visited a few of those countries. But Africa can be a tough continent and can be even tougher when you are a white-skinned, single Mum. Somebody recently […]

Sun, Sand and Sea on the Coast of Dar Es Salaam Tanzania

We’ve just finished five – yes, five – glorious weeks on the island of Zanzibar.   As much as Zanzibar is an awesome place to visit, the time has come to experience more of mainland Africa for us, and so without doing too much research, we decided that the easiest thing to do was to […]