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We booked in January the only flight on ZANZIBAR with Todomondo and since then we have been tormented by doubt or if you do not do the safari in Tanzania ...
In February I found in my surfing the net and in my usual information that a site listed in short all the features of the various agencies that organize safaris and their email address ...
With the help of my translator, I sent my email request for rates and info for a safari of 5 days and 4 nights to all the addresses of the list.
I have answered almost all have been submerged with their proposals ...
Together with our traveling companions and dear friends, Andrea and Jael, we began to think ...
They spoke of a significant expenditure and the idea of the field tend to us the adventure seemed too much that for months we have shelved the idea to be able to afford a safari in Tanzania ...
We thought you can even hope to be able to organize an on-site, saving something ... or you can stay away from parks to spend less ... but any idea fell and suffered increasingly abandoned the safari ...
Diego and I, having been fortunate enough this year to find good prices as the only flight to Mauritius in December and only flight on the Maldives for May was not the idea of doing just the beach in ZANZIBAR ...
In June we decided we should do the safari ... but the second question is with whom?
Read about which agencies are ghost, you take the money you send in advance and then disappear, or other agencies that you are shooting a low cost but also save on self or cook etc ... or where to throw a lot of time trying to repair a jeep route ...
I was really in crisis, I wanted to say a little but then I did not want dovermene regret for a long time ...
I started my new research on the internet, digging ever more deeply ...
I found a friendly guy, and you can get you in the network, which was in Tanzania at least a dozen times ... living near us kindly opened her home and shared with us the basic information that we needed to us ... showed photographs of the wonderful fact that in his last safari (February 2008 during the birth) and was able to convey his love for the safari ... we advised him to do almost almost safari only fifteen days ...
It was unthinkable as an expense and we were convinced that we would be tired ...
He explained rispiegava and that there are so many wonderful things to see and do than the minimum of the minimum in order not to regret later, at least one week.
He has a friend in Arusha trusted that organizes safaris.
We accept that he is to organize the safari or at least ask that the structures and let us know the cost ...
His estimate is high enough for our pockets and we decide to remove a day and do two nights in the lodge and the rest in the tent camps ... we're talking about seven days and six nights is safari.
If we were in four spending would be lower because certain expenses are divided, like the car, the driver and the cook ... but our friends want to relax and do a lot 'of the sea, are organizing a week Mafia ... we're just us.
The price is good but is still high.
In July I go to retrieve some of my addresses from my old mail in February and back again to a lot of their new email with my new program ... and I meet all kind.
We choose three quotes that are lower but not too much, asking more info and although we regret having to "lose time to the boy and his Italian friend Tanzanian" decide to take a risk and spend a little less, while remaining on a price importante.Facciamo alone.
I write a mail all'uffico Tanzanian tourism (Tourist Information Center - Dar es Salaam "ttb2@ud.co.tz cotcord@intafrica.com) or
(Tanzania Association of Tours Operators' tato@cybernet.co.tz)
indicating the name of the agency chosen by saying that I want to know if there is reliable and since I anticipate half the price of the safari.
They respond that it is well known and reliable.
We chose:

CORDIAL TOURS
http://www.cordialtours.com/home.htm
info@cordialtours.com

We negotiated with John, but they are all available and ready to help.

I write some email addresses of other agencies that we met in the safari and you can ask for info ... I can send full list

We, from personal experience to recommend the 100% CORDIAL TOURS ... we were fine, or if you want to go quiet at 100% look for the boy in the network of which I speak and ask for info on him and if you organize your safari.

www.roysafaris.com
www.bobbytours.com
www.bobbycamping.com
www.shidolya-safaris.com
www.tontusafaris.com
www.africantrails.com
www.tropicaltrails.com
www.sunnysafaris.com
www.migodatours.com


HERE'S OUR JOURNEY:

STONE TOWN

Lunch at:
PLAZA
(Shangani area near the Italian restaurant La Fenice)
Managed by local, nice clean and orderly, and is on three floors: the latter is open, with a beautiful view.
Cooking, eating almost discrete if it were not for the sauces to which we are not used.
Not economicissimo, medium level.
Be careful because if you only have U.S. dollars as their majority practice exchange 1000 tsh = $ 1 so we do not have local currency we have returned $ 8.
Dinner at:
DOLPHIN RESTAURANTE
(In the middle of Kenyatta rd, Shangani area)
Nothing special, typical, not very fast in service,
low price but very little portions.
They have a fantastic parrot who likes to put his head out of the cage and have it caressed.

To finish and close the hole left by the Dolphin:
THE PHOENIX
(Shangani area)
Italian restaurant, run by a pair of italiani.La daughter organizes safaris in Arusha.
We took only a fruit salad with a small ball of your choice (6000tsh)
And the dessert Tiramisu (delicious as they eat in Italy).
True Italian restaurant, you notice the touch Committee, the owner is kind, ready to talk and willing to help, gave us the chance to join him the next day to visit the local market.
Excellent espresso paid 2000tsh (€ 1 = 1800tsh).

To sleep:
ANNEX COCO DE MER
(Vuga district) $ 50 per night per room with breakfast.
Essential rooms, spacious with the ceiling fan, bed with mosquito net.
Bathroom? There is just so absolutely essential in order to call this ..
All this slightly depressing.
It would be very fitting if cost up to $ 20 (perhaps because it was the fifth hotel we did and the others were all filled, there came the question that usually cost less and agree with the taxi driver had raised the price ...)
Value for money virtually nonexistent.
Breakfast very impersonal, without infamy and without praise.

- Breakfast mediocre all'Annex coco de mer
- Good coffee at La Fenice
- Rain and running that is ...
- Quick Lunch at Plaza (Giant sandwiches fried but fried)
- Fenice Coffee after lunch
-Nell 'attesa break the plane and relax on the terrace of the restaurant:
AMORE MIO
(Shangani area after the Phoenix and the Plaza)
Maintained by Italians but by maintaining the Zanzibari style ...
At the Phoenix seems to leave Africa and return to Italy in this restaurant .. stay in ZANZIBAR
Having a fruit salad (3000tsh), 1 spicy tea (1500tsh) and 1 coca cola (1500tsh) cradled by the waves of the sea ... Very good view, and the place really clean.
The people around us have eaten pasta, pizza and sandwiches ... the look was good ...
Perhaps for a lunch or dinner do not have a great selection or variety of dishes like the Phoenix ... but the guide said to make great ice cream ...

START FOR OUR SAFARI

FLIGHT STONE TOWN - made with KILIMANJARO AIR Tanzania
We chose a direct flight to optimize the best timing.
Departure at 19:55 arriving 21:00
At the airport we expect to find one of the guys who works for the agency of your choice via the internet who has organized the safari ..
Transfer of approximately one hour in Arusha.

Slept all 'IMPALA HOTEL www.impalahotel.com
Excellent, it is a great casermone nine storeys, with 4 types of restaurants and there is a huge round of people.
Excellent rooms, big pool and water calda.Buon bed with mosquito net.
Climate freddino so much that just arrived in the room we asked to switch off the air conditioning ... response? .. There is no air conditioning is its normal temperature ...
Continental breakfast buffet is available from 5:30 am,
good and with lots of choice.

TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

Beautiful park.
Savannah, full of Baobab (some are really big and beautiful).
The sightings are very easy, since so many zebras, elephants, giraffes, impala and similar ...
From far and in two different situations we saw two lionesses ...
Let the pictures are telling the rest .. also because each and every day safari is different from that of another ..
Consigliatissimo!

To sleep:
Tarangire SAFARI LODGE
www.tarangiresafarilodge.com

Bello, say luxury
The arrangements may be in tents or bungalows with thatched roofs.
We slept in the tent sets (the size of a hotel room) with the mason in the back where there are bathrooms, a shower with the water is warm but not completely closed with a spifferi suffers a bit cold.
All lights, the tent was also the veranda where there is a small table and two chairs.
He has an excellent position, and you can enjoy a beautiful landscape, is situated on a cliff overlooking the Tarangire River, and we could see a herd of elephants that watering ...
Dinner served, with menu of the day, does not change:
a hot soup and you could choose makes two types of dish, then a fruit buffet and desserts.
Portions are not very abundant: fair vote.
Free breakfast buffet and therefore is abundant in quantity, but more importantly as varied choice.
Cold temperature, you are fine with two sweaters and a nice sweater, thinking: if we were cold we sleep safely in the field tend genuine and dinner for sure there is much colder.

LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK

Really beautiful park, I read that is sometimes underestimated, but to us because of the diversity and variety of environments in a very short space is really like so ...
We enter the rain forest almost immediately .. and after we meet in the bush and then in a lake ..
There are many elephants, and we viewed from a distance very close ...
Then zebras, giraffes (seen in the distance) impala, baboons and many procavie and various monkeys ...
Hippos, flamingos and pelicans.
We managed to see two lionesses down from where they had refugee rest ...
Exciting!

The town of MTO WA WBU

Certainly deserves to do a walk to breathe the air of ...
There is a beautiful market Masai, with their works, shame that we all seek to enter and see, then negotiate and buy accordingly ... soon lose the desire to look and walk ...

Slept outside in the park:
Twig CAMPS LODGE
twigacampiste@hotmail.com
Camping fenced, many chefs at work, we arrived in the morning, the guide and the cook have downloaded the car with everything needed to cook and sleep and then we're broken down by a visit to the park ... In return, we found, as we all believe , our tent and the table mounted apparecchiato ... dinner? Depends on your chef and the agency you have chosen!
We went well, was good, diligent and responsible and very good cook .. ...
The camp would say that is equivalent to an Italian camp (not luxury), the bath is essential and is often cleaner ... The shower is hot!

LAKE NATRON

Today we scored on our visit to Lake Natron ...
We have not informed very well on this day .. we had been recommended and we followed the advice ... we thought we make a safari very similar to lake Manyara ...
The transfer to the area and the first to stretch the field movido Camp lasts three hours on a heavy road virtually non-existent ... (cross streets only rocks, ford streams, etc. ... we see many Masai villages, lots of dust and hundreds of children with various flocks to pasture, many are dressed in rags alone.
We arrived at their destination around noon, the guide tells us that we wait three hours before you share because it is too hot and the lake turns into a very short time ... we are perplexed but obeyed ...
The three of us are ready for our usual safari, we are unaware of everything, and "Bastardina" the guide warns Rama there for nothing ...
Just emerged from a Masai boy salt in the car with us, who knows why? Will want to make a turn in the car, maybe ... I conclude ... polla!
After fifteen minutes we have left at the foot of a mountain and the Masai becomes the guide to get to the waterfalls ... excuse anyone told me that there are waterfalls, the less I have to reach them on foot initial trauma ... .. adding as the driving "takes about fifty minutes to go and many will need to return and also to cross the small streams ..."
I would have disintegrated instantly ... but the best and worse ...
The road or trail practically does not exist, you must climb up the mountain alongside a stream between climbs and descents and rocks that a landslide Pochettino ... careful where you put your feet ... then cross the stream several times ...
If, as we arrived a little 'unprepared, it can be adapted traumatico.Basta ... we were in tennis shoes and long pants and wade a river without wetting want is a good adventure ... but if you read this diary, you get trained, as the other group of Italians who were even with the costume ready for the final bath ...
Jhon Our guide was fantastic, we have removed their shoes and the last piece we did barefoot in the middle of the river and the stones (which male feet! But had no way replace the shoes and then remove them again after three minutes ...)
At the end arrive at a cave where it falls from above waterfall (nothing huge and amazing) but you can swim and dive past the waterfall, enter the cave after about a dozen meters there is another cascade lowest but more powerful that acts as a whirlpool ... Everyone was happy and felt at one with nature! Diego has a bathroom with the pants.
Route to return to same as practically, thank goodness the sun is falling and you are often gray areas ... To expect the jeep there are Masai women and girls who have land for their small stand, to bracelets and necklaces typical ... (Just one question to which I have not found the answer:
What are isolated from the world ... but where to find them corals or beads to make their own ornaments?)
Contract with a girl named Maria (?) And I sold a necklace for Masai 4000tsh ... at least it is a memory ...
In a very short time we reach the Lake Natron, then they walk the dry season in the lake dry, but in some places and muddy melmoso to reach the lake where the flamingos.
E 'completely pink, the dream is that everyone will raise in the air to make a fabulous photo, but you can not go so close, without getting bogged down ... you can still close to the small groups in small puddles outside and see them well.
Booyah!

We asked back again this day?
It 'a strange day, in order to get to and walk around eight hours by car on roads that do not exist, and cross mountains, you see animals if not the flamingos and some giraffe and impala or gazelle running free for Tanzania ...
Yet we have not found a definitive answer, one thing is certain: as we enjoyed the day and allowed us to see different landscapes, to incorporate into the spirit of the Masai and other tribes of the type sonja.
Duplicating the same route so we would be able to stop in some local village and away from tourist ... Also when we booked the safari we were saying that seven-day safari, from our point of view, there were too many and that there would be this bored ... day allowed us to relax and to detach completely from the animal's eyes and created an expectation even greater for the Serengeti.

To sleep:
MOVIDA CAMP

Absolute peace, being outside the usual tour, there is very little people and that there is little that does not sleep in tents but in the bungalow ... we are just two of us, the guide and the cook and the Masai who run the camp.
E 'shady, 2 bathrooms and 2 showers Westerners are ok, very clean, then there are those outside the bravest or the Masai ... There is very hot during the day and an ideal climate in the evening ... very few mosquitoes ...
There is no electricity, therefore no light, even in bagni.Solo water at room temperature!
We slept in the typical African tree, with the tent practically open, only the mosquito net was illuminated by the full moon, it was romantic!
We were woken up around three in the morning by several donkeys burning grass near the tent, making the ground tremble almost ...
Just before starting the call come from a Masai woman outside the fence of the field that I want to sell her bracelets ... they buy one for 2000 tsh, she is very happy ...

TWO DAYS AT SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

We had read that the Serengeti is the place where legend meets reality, where you can touch the mystery, the harshness and power of ...
We can not do other than confirm what you have already read about ... it's fantastic!
We have seen the area of the Lobo and Seronera and assure you that we liked very much, offers beautiful landscapes, varied and impressive expanses with eyes that fail to cover.
And the animals? Lot ... I can not imagine how it must be before the great migration to the Masai Mara.
There are huge herds of buffalo, zebra and Thomson gazelles, impala, etc. .. elephant, giraffe, dik-dik and are clearly visible, as the dry season even the cats! Wonderful!
In one day we saw more than 15 family groups of lions:
4 lionesses well with the pups, 3-4 of the young lions and lions ... and the rest groups of 2 to 4 lionesses ...
Often rested and how cats have difficulty waking up, despite the noise of the cars.
It is well camouflaged nell'erba dry yellow and sometimes even when you know that there is no longer able to see them once they are lying.
We saw for the first time and in full freedom and with the next meal (a gazelle):
a Ghepard.
Thank the other three jeeps firm but said that although there was, we spent more than ten minutes to find it ...
Once through the ears that have moved has been located ... you just saw some spot and then there was pardoned rising and putting his feet in a typical installation of the cheetahs.
Scenery ... hippos in rivers or ponds clean melmose full of their own excrement ... grass green and lush palm trees near water or grass secchissima the plains.
Affect the endless space, where the horizon see the silhouette of un'elefante or a giraffe who wanders lonely.
On the one hand I understand who organizes safaris long, more time allows you to see and calmly observe the animals in all their stages of life or of the day!
I first saw giraffe drinking, elephant sucking milk ...
I feel wonderful that you enrich your life.

In the area of LOBO we stayed at:
CAMP LOBO

I am tempted to say that virtually no area is an open space behind you and a big rock in front of a large expanse where they slept at night buffalo (I have not slept very much, I felt buffalo puff and we previously thought was a little 'more security in this kind of field, at least if not a fence, I had been told that there were as Masai guards ... instead everyone thinks for itself and you wish not to have to go to the bathroom at night.
Cold, cold, and much, much wind!
There are two buildings with the type huts of about one meter of masonry and metal mesh that acts as walls, roofs.
Serve the food to protect against attacks by baboons in the evening ... do not see but finished breakfast descend to the groups to steal rubabile.
Bathrooms? Who has talked bath? There are four walls and a sheet metal deep hole on the floor ... the important thing is that anyone who "participated in the game" has a good aim, if not after a while 'no longer know where to put your feet ...
With a little 'courage and the nose can all well stoppered.
There is water practically anywhere rubinettino if not by a large tank that serves the chefs to cook and wash dishes ... The only thing is you can wash your hands! Bring the wet wipes ... and fortunately there cold then you're not even sweating!
Eating outdoors was really hard to be that evening to the morning, the wind too cold, not enough clothes to protect his face.

In the area of Seronera we stayed at:
Pimbo B / CAMPS

E 'a field outside. Completely open in the middle of the savannah, but we have neither seen nor heard animals in particular (good or bad luck for some, depends on the points of view ...)
There are always the two fences, which I have already spoken, closed networks and roof paglia.Una serves as a kitchen and a restaurant area is set up with tables and chairs brought from every group of tourists.
Lacks the light and electricity, but there's water!
The baths were built by little in a small cottage to the side of the field, with water and shower.
I think it is a field and being cared for improvement, not abandoned to itself as it is now that of Lobo.

On the morning safari in the Serengeti and in the afternoon transfer to the final stage the Ngorongoro with a visit to Masai village.
In the morning we saw the magnificent leopard sleeping "perched" on the short distance with the newly hunted gazelle.
Again we saw lionesses with their puppies.
In a nutshell:
take a safari in the Serengeti is a house special and I think we can not be disappointed if in August, a period which is described as the moment you see a few animals because many are at the Masai Mara in Kenya, we never have seen a lot, I can not Imagine when the park is full.

However, there summarize what the Lonely Planet says about when visiting the park:
"The park is the concentration of animals is highest between December and June and lower in the dry season between July and October.
But the Serengeti deserves to be visited all year round.
Much depends on what one wants to see!
Your main interest is the gnu? Then the rainy season (December to May) are the schools scattered in the area of the southern Serengeti.
Births in the season, around February, every day see the light more than 8,000 small gnu, although 40% of them die before reaching four months of age.
If on the contrary you want to see the predators, then the best time to spot a number maggioreè certainly in the dry season (July-October). "
Learn and make your assessments.

After lunch we were directed towards the Ngorongoro, in large spaces on either side of the beaten path that serves as the road started to see all children Masai grazing their herds of sheep or goats or cattle.
Often when they see the car you are stretching to meet the hand ... this happened in any way that we have come calling ... .... Always asking.
It 'easy that a conversation between: E' RIGHT TO OE 'BETTER NOT DARE?
Must see the tourist as someone to "spell" or as a benefactor?
Accustom to receive later in time means they can not even make a step without being surrounded by children or by people asking you ... and asks ...
E 'un bel dilemma!
With regard to these children I thought I might ask for money or clothes, as some have only a rag knotted on the shoulder and that was it.
Our guide, Rama, told us that their main demand
WATER is to ask, actually often find themselves with their animals, in the middle of the savannah, surrounded only by land burned and hard and some small trees as shelter from the scorching sun.
Giving a bottle of water at one of them means that twenty meters ahead you will find another that asks you the same thing and so on ...
Or you think that is just, but just extend their hands to give, they emerge from running other hidden places.
You can not please everyone.
We had a lot of apples and this afternoon we have given one to every child that we met are finished quickly!
Anything we do is a drop in the ocean!
Then I add a reflection that can be defined as poor:
as their tribes refuse to progress and one side is right because the traditions and culture are sacred and should be respected ... because then you have to beg tourists?
Why is my guide and my chef while having food or water with them .. they have never made the slightest gesture of solidarity towards either one of them?
Why all this is demanded from us tourists?
And 'choice of their life! The only regret is that children have no choice and that children suffer from the decisions of their parents and that when they are so big inside the gear that might not know or do not have the courage to get out.
We have seen young Masai clothes with their typical colored drapes happy to walk with in one hand and a spear in the hand the phone, or with sunglasses fashion.
In conclusion: everything is not always as it seems.
There will certainly be very isolated villages and poor, but we have not seen people lean or hungry, have their sheep and their cows;
although this does not mean there are.
There are certainly people who have left their isolated village and have moved closer to residential areas to take advantage of the convenience.
Near the towns we saw many Masai cycling.
It 'true subjects of this type can be open discussion of days and days, even though I only expressed my doubts but I do not want to do polemics with those who are in favor of giving or for those who do not give.
To sleep:
WILDLIFE LODGE Ngorongoro
www.hotelsandlodges-Tanzania.com
Bellisma enjoys a position on the edge of the crater.
Massive structure with at least four floors in the terrace, with a large balcony to enjoy the beautiful landscape.
Dinner buffet of excellent quality and variety, the same for breakfast. Consigliatissimo!
This was chosen because we were all warned that it was the coldest area of our safari and sleep in tents and eat outside when out comes even close to zero is not the most, at least in one chamber defends itself better ... In the hall There is also a central fireplace which is lit even if one heats only if you are very close ...
So we were prepared for cold and we did not find it worse than that suffered the Lobo certainly be in the tent could be tragic.
At sunset and early morning the thermometer measured about 12 °.

VISIT AT MASAI VILLAGE

I do not think it is worthwhile, of course I would not redo!
Cost per car $ 50, duration of visit: up to one hour.
We were in a village near Ngorongoro.
We say that is the only way to take photos at will under which a person can adapt two definitions:
1) He sold them to make money.
2) It is made smart and uses the chickens who pay to see their spettacolino.

Just arrived with a young Masai excellent spoken English comes to meet us and take the money from the guide and is presented to us as our companion in his village.
Are just annoyed by the amount of wearing gold (rings and bracelets, even one made with white gold with yellow gold braided). It is older than me!
We must wait, that at least twenty or thirty of them are brought out of the village to get their dance of welcome.
Some undertake more convinced than others. I perhaps have prevented, and I see it as a Pacchiana, far outside of reality.
$ 50 to enter there are many (we learn later in ZANZIBAR that the average salary is up to $ 100 a month ... I do not know what normally earn in Tanzania ...).
This village is not poor and want to appear although in a way, to my eyes seems quite the opposite.
We enter the village ... many small huts, where "our" young Masai explains what equipment is built and then makes us sit in it ...
Our eyes are not accustomed to the horse and once inside we do not see anything ... then after about ten minutes I notice that my eyes have adapted and can receive the forms.
E 'piccolissima a cow skin that serves as a bed for parents and a skin as a bed for the children, there is a tiny corner of the coals, used as food.
He explains their lives and can do all the questions we want, that sin is not caught out there are more ... my English is virtually nonexistent and that Diego is very basic. He explains who are polygamous and do not eat vegetables (surely somewhat 'complicated to cultivate). Their diet is just flesh and blood, sometimes mixed with milk and blood, eat goats, cows and sheep. The donkey is the only animal that breed only as a means of transport and which is not eaten. Now while I'm writing my diary, I wanted to ask:
each wife has her hut? him how many wives or children were in? how to choose? They are jealous of one another and what do when one of them dies? Buried or burned?
What is the role of man or woman? seems that women work and effort is much more of it? Etc.. .. Etc.
At the heart of the village there is a kind of circular palisade with all their ornaments (necklaces, bracelets, sticks decorated etc. ..)
Diego give me a stick and a necklace ... are divided into two groups, one male and the other with only women:
and we sing in the middle we have to jump higher ... can tell us so that we are marrying in their tradition ...
Diego ago convinced and follows what he was told to do ... I feel a circus ape, completely alien to their environment .. jump a little but I am too ashamed ...
It 'a show for tourists.
After you notice that you have to choose what you like among all the objects and then buy it ..
I, as I already told, Lake Natron had already bought a necklace for 4000 and a bracelet for 2,000 Tanzanian shillings ...
I had an idea on prices for fortune ...
We choose a necklace and four bracelets: $ 50 we shoot! We are crazy?
We refuse to let us skinned in that way, but perhaps just stupid scemi no ...
Stupid for not having bought out by the tourist from people who actually need and which itself ... We leave all their stress ... ... I am paying for the right ... 15000tsh maximum request $ 50 is really a theft ... calculating that I have only 50 more data to enter ...
He wants us to believe that $ 15 is little and we call ok ... no problem ... do not want ...
Then lead us to visit their school:
A hut with benches where they sit around twenty children with torn shirts and full of dust ... to the center where there is a box then put the bids for the school ... give us something ...
Children will sing a short song and a girl of the group is translating into English what he says his teacher in the local language.
Children seem to really poor!
There are two small, have at most two years, which I took in sympathy, and I follow, laugh and eat sand and think the flies on the face and seem to not realize it does not hunt ... .. I do it for them but after a 'moment fly back into the starting position ... I am sorry not to have anything for them ..
But then I think:
because the adults are all well dressed (you can see it in person from the photos that I put on the net) and well washed, I would almost say, with the gold wrists while a contrast with the crazy kids are dressed in rags and with the flies on eyes? not even find fans are well grassottelli ...
I can not understand ... sure that particular village, which opened to tourists is not poor ... perhaps the children are left that way for impietosire even more tourists ... or even as a group are divided into rich and poor ... To find a response should really come into their culture, not as tourists but as a friend ... it takes years and lots of travel in Tanzania.
The visit is over and our young guide Masai again plays the card of bargaining:
three bracelets 15000tsh. We also accept if we are sure they are expensive.
We see that 5000 brings them into his pocket, the young Masai and 10000 are given to women who perhaps made them.
End of tour! You make the decision whether or not this visit, we certainly do not want to stop again but in true villages, and if I have to leave some money, I prefer to give it to them, and seeing live their lives, not just people who all'arrivo Tourists sings and dances, no washing, fatigue, kitchen ... who is not the show is sitting and waiting for the next arrival of another couple of aliens.

We continue our journey ...
New shepherd in search of deals ... what we have, some package of biscuits and the like, we have little water for us and it is not so obvious to find a store that sells ...
We have come almost to your destination, we stop outside, on top of the crater, tomorrow morning go down inside. We do some photos in a vantage point and was immediately surrounded by 5-6 twenties Masai boys selling necklaces and bracelets ... wonder what it costs the same necklace that I wanted to buy the village where they asked me $ 15 ... the guy asks me tsh 5000 (just over of $ 4) I did not even dare to pull the price, I accept immediately.
M'incavolo even more when I plucked tourists to the village.
Just bought one the other guys start to say: "two necklaces for 5000tsh" ok ... but satisfied them all attack me, I speak and stretch their necklaces ... so just ask that they choose two from the bunch ... I've no idea to whom I give the money .. a hand stretched and I indicates that one is his and the other is a guy ... I do the money ... are agitated, we would like all the taking but in the end is very quiet with each other, now a tourist chooses yours, tomorrow another will choose my ...

DESCENT INTO NGORONGORO CRATER

We start the descent towards half past seven ...
The crater seems a vacuum, dry and desolate ... but it is really huge and much is hidden to our view.
In fact, the more we proceed environments appear to our eyes.
We are in the middle of a forest, there are rivers with their lush vegetation and later dry dry savanna.
Let's see some elephants, zebras lot, a group of puppies with iene, gazelles, jackals, impala and many birds ... do not see a lion from the distant and thick black mane with his harem, three lionesses, and then in the distance, a huge black stain ... we approach and distinguish forms are gnu ..! There are lots of us crossing the road, cautious and prudent, we are witnessing a small migration ... they are just moving from one pasture to another.
I am feeling wonderful.
And when you think ... seven days of safari is the right one, if they had to do more perhaps begin to tired ... eccoti being spotted a cheetah (the various guides warn you with the radio) and then your adrenaline to rise again ... beautiful and so that it restarts with the flurry of photographs.
It 'a beautiful specimen, it is very quiet, it rolls in the sand, as my cats and does well ... its bisognini Fantastic, has no hurry to leave ...
The time flows inexorably and is now approaching the time of removal and return the road to the end of the safari. Sighted a dozen jeeps near the surface the plane will stop picnic.
We get: two beautiful lionesses are on the road again ... to immortalize this moment, but the majority of the jeep are placed just below the other side of the road and look in the direction opposite to ours, what's special?
See especially high among all'erba a third lioness, and 4-5 meters away there is a procession of zebras ...
Certainly is an attitude hunting, but only you know what is the right time ... we expect a bit ... but she always stops ... maybe take three, four hours, who knows?
You should not go anywhere, just procurasi food, perhaps the jeep and they are going to slow down or distract us ... we can not wait any longer.
13:30 start our return trip, the safari is finished!
Only regret is not being able to see the rhino, the only hope was right inside the crater, but there are very few examples to see which is really a lucky few rarità.Ma there sempre.Auguri the next!
Ask Rama, our guide, we can stop to buy some T-shirt as a memento ...
At about half way it stops and makes us notice that in a stand-in addition to typical store pictures and paintings also sells T-shirts.
Asking price: 1 x $ 25, we returned to excuse Masai village? I do not believe ... I say I am prepared to give you $ 5, he drops to 20 and I leave here ... I am tired of people who just want to enjoy it since we are on the road seem rich, with money to throw ...
I am tired now and I stop to contract, we are not to be plucking chickens, maybe there are people that are selling well, I no! Diego coins the phrase "I'ma chiken?" I ask only a democratic money ... he should have his gain we lack, nor is it by plucking a chicken.
While he tells us away: ok for $ 6.
But now who wants nothing is ticking too! I can do without shirts.
Arrived in Arusha the guide stops at a shop run by Indians, I do not know if they have the most business sense, but the price for the same shirt is 5000tsh that is less than $ 5.
Compriamo.Quello that is right is right.
We pass by the agency to compile a book of comments (all really good!) And then accompany us to the point: at Hotel IMPALA stayed where we have to same.
Room and go up in a nice hot bath will restore the spirito.Cena the Italian restaurant (which the Italian has perhaps only the name) and soon to bed, tomorrow at six, Rama, to take us to accompany us to the airport!

KENDWA

The Kilimanjaro airport is beautiful, brand new and very organized.
One wonders why un'aeroporto much less land where tourists should be so modern, while that of ZANZIBAR is practically non-existent. Perhaps political issues between Tanzania and ZANZIBAR ... do not want asking for independence, or there are many more people on the island that "eat" all the money we pay for tourists to enter and leave the mystery ... More ...
Flight slightly delayed but perfect.
Being a domestic flight to ZANZIBAR airport is virtually empty and it's another aspect.
Nobody cries, calls for not tipping the bag aprirti etc. ...
We have a couple of dear friends that we are in the area of Kendwa.
We left together from Italy and while we did a week of safari they were on the island of MAFIA will be happy to help, and maybe you'll find their story online.
Have described el'hanno diving pursued as a heavenly place.
They have done everything with the help of an Italian boyfriend Mario which opened a diving on the island and has also three bungalows on the beach. They were enthusiastic.
Coming back to us ... the contract for the taxi to find Kenduwa, north, is practically on the point of near Nungwi
The taxi we shoot and $ 60 at the end brings us right in front of the resort chosen by our friends for $ 40, spend about an hour's drive.

To sleep:
DUNIANI LODGE
www.dunianikendwa.com
dunianilodgekendwa@gmail.co
Tel +255 776 034 845
+ 255 777 239 494

The place and atmosphere that you breathe c'inspira from the beginning.
E 'consists of at least eight bungalows at about thirty meters from the beach.
Cost $ 60 per night with an abundant breakfast.
It is perhaps a little 'dear to the standards to which we are familiar (with the Asian maximum $ 20-30 you have a room orgy) africa but this is expensive and has a good value for money for what we saw in lap.
The room is nothing luxury, but it is comfortable, big and clean first!

I must preface that the management has just changed, from about six months;
first it was called: Malaika and now everything is improving and restructuring, and then maybe when you go there you will find it even more beautiful.
The desire to improve themselves and there and you breathe in the air.
Take only that when we arrived we opened the new kitchen is visible from anyone, always well kept and clean.
Have created before our eyes the menu instead of a voice tell you everything and were creating a local restaurant along the beach really nice.
They have a huge shed with the roof to where the kitchen is brand new and in the middle of this huge space (it could also be a ballroom) is the bar, and follow rifornitissimo and cared for, almost like a child every day should see the light, in an almost maniacal, a nice guy of the place, I think, named JOB!
Every morning it found a fix, move and dusting the bottles placed at the end of the evening in his scaffali.Preciso and always ready with a smile and help.
On the sides of the bar there are tables where we serve breakfast, lunch or dinner ...
The staff is really nice and the hand, with the sole desire to please the customer.
If you leave the key or a Job Bertha who is responsible for everything (that is the end you take the money when it's time to pay ...) you clean them, if not the leaves, no cleaning.
We ate really good, plentiful breakfast consisting of a dish with a little 'fruit (two or three types) of fruit juice, tea, a big slice of bread with butter and jam, scrambled eggs: better if you ask the omlette and Finally Crèpes a blank to be filled with jam or miele.Il all included in the price of the room.

The sea is very, very, very beautiful ... see photos ...
Kendwa is the only part of a word, of those who have turned a bit, which is not in a strong tide, you can swim at any time.
The only new area is near the Italian village:
Eden Beach Resort village Kendwa
Perhaps the Italians who were on holiday in this property will also be pleased that the animation was done by these guys ligi their duty but from the outside could be called slightly intrusive.
You often hear what they say, because the volume is slightly high, although it must be said that for the good of their customers (because the other did not and we care nothing) comply with the hours of silence, and then up at ten o'clock in the morning and to four in the afternoon ... you can sleep quiet at night and by midnight stop ... This is the only new but you should also go a few days to Duniani because everything is fantastic and breathe the air of real, not pretend that is inside the villages.

IMMERSIONS

The diving of SCUBADOO located just five minutes walk from our lodge (the Duniani) and if you say you are the Duniani you a discount of 10% ... mica male!.
E 'a PADI diving consigliatissimo is located at the Sunset bungalows.

SCUBADO
www.scuba-do-ZANZIBAR.com
do-scuba@scyba-do-ZANZIBAR.com
Tel +255 777 417 157
+255 784 415 179
Apart from the fact that they are all young and beautiful simpaticissimi, most importantly:
are very precise and careful.
Book the day before the draft, but the time and place is decided only in the evening after checking out the tide table.
Let the first draft, with a strong surface current and poor visibility,
almost all immediately lose the thread that holds the divemaster and everyone started his descent with his companion, convinced that they meet once below.
Some of the group manage to get off, but the other half of the group, not decreased quickly to equipment problems, or wait for the companion, are forced to climb in the current case because gommone were removed from the place of descent of the group ... it would be impossible to meet ...
Honestly the girl closed the group that remained with those who have not dipped, but we have lost the girl that opened the group because poor visibility.
Below, after having waited a few minutes and not finding the group, we decide to go back, convinced that they have lost and that the remaining group began the dive without them ...
Once emerged expect to find the raft with all on board.
Heading in the all new and we are preparing for the draft.
This time, we keep an eye on the wire and there are no problems ...
Return to the pause and change cylinders.
We left for the first at 11:00 and return after the second which is 17:00.
We made some beautiful dives, saw three frog fish and two fish leaf, many nudibranchi!
Pity the poor visibility.
Lodge in return tired but happy.
Cost of 2 dives: $ 110 per Person +10 $ for the rental equipment.

IMMERSIONS AT MNEMBA

We wake up to the sky nuvolo so that we will be made clear whether or not diving, not to heaven but to the sea and the history of the currents of the past, we would like to avoid it.
It starts at 9:00 more we get to our destination, the marine park of Mnemba, the sky opens and the sea is calm.
E 'private island so you can not set foot on the ground, but every day there are excursions for diving or snorkeling since it is a paradise.
There are some wonderful colors, breathtaking, a beautiful sea, nothing to envy with some colors that I saw in the Maldives.
Descend, hoping that the good is at least the above.
Under actually there is a lot more visibility, but unfortunately we do not see all the turtles and large fish that we expected.
Diving, however beautiful, with beautiful coral.
Between immersion and the other remain in the boat and it gives those who want a nice swim in these waters are also favola.Ci lunch consisting of a typical piadina that Chiapa with their vegetables, then they give us fruit of various kinds as pineapple, banana, orange and watermelon.
We left around 9:00 am and return alla14: 00 or so.
Pay, since they are more distant, for these two dives $ 140 + $ 10 for rental equipment.
In two have spent a total of € 332 for 8 dives (4 near and distant 4).
In return we enjoy a beautiful sunset.
Al Duniani we have arranged on our request a grilled fish on the beach!
They are fantastic, all our desire is to satisfy a request.
Have prepared everything and put the tables by the sea ... and everything is served by the light of candela. Wonderful dinner.

Today is a day dedicated to the most relaxing, since we started we have not had a day where the fare was not doing anything!
We do a breakfast abundant, just to give you an idea last night while we bought some postcards in the shops nearby (almost all) we have found and bought the NUTELLA originale.Questa morning we asked for and received the ciapa (piadina type) and the nutella I can assure you that are good ... we ate a lot and consequently skipped lunch.
We know that in theory after Nungwi is a fishing village where they are built and repaired boats and a little further is a place dedicated to saving the turtles.
We leave but without any precise information ... only heard and not read the guides that we have with us.
TOURISTS DO-IT-YOURSELF? NO PLANET lonely?
EVIL, EVIL!
There is a very strong sun and there is high tide, and then decide not to go by sea or the beach but to go off the road, after a twenty minute walk we no longer know which way to do and we are forced to fall back towards the sea, it seems there is no other way.
We are almost back to square one ... but with the high tide we can not continue, we have to wait an hour or so.
We are on the east Gemma (mega village for tourists not to travel)
Pending fall into temptation in front of the bar: two espressos.
Pay the € 3 I say three euros! That thieves! And even if it was not Bad, it was not anything special, indeed ...
The tide is falling, we adventurism .. but again we come to a point where the beach has not yet emerged, comes to life and we have cameras.
Called a "taxi", a small canoe that just four of us climb aboard, immediately began to take on some 'of water. Bello at least some' of emotion in this holiday.
It 'a very short trip but it was a wonderful experience, made to laugh, we pay 6000tsh.
We continue on foot, cross Nungwi, we see the various hotels along the sea and shops, but the village and no trace of the turtles, and only so much hot sun.
We walk for almost two hours, total, and in the distance begin to see lots of boats anchored in the sea ... it is the village of fishermen, but it is their village, the tourist there is absolutely nothing, no one sells anything.
Bargaining for their food and we are now, however, approached by children who are asking us money in exchange for a picture ... do not accept ...
We are now at the point of departure, we do not have a clue of where the place of the turtles and even as it is called .. we are dead tired and the only thought is to go back .. but we could not walk to retrace the same path under this scorching sun.
We are looking taxi ... there is no classical civilization ... but we see a bus ... ... information call contracts and 20,000 total tsh is willing to take us to our hotel.
We have just taken un'autobus everything for us, we return and are already four in the afternoon.
As already anticipated the breakfast was so abundant that jump lunch, a juice made from fresh all'ananas Job.

We decided to throw in the purchases and gifts in the classic-thoughts to take home to friends.
On the beach there are a number of exaggerated capannina managed by some local and others from the Masai.
Are small shops and sell a great line all the same things (animals or statues wooden Masai, bracelets, necklaces, shoes, shirts and mainly their typical middle ... with paintings of animals, landscapes and Masai ...
They are very beautiful, we must also note the fact that globalization is, unfortunately, is that in any area where an item is found the same things and sometimes you can also find them at home without having to move.
These paintings are still typical of the area, I have not yet found around outside Tanzania;
which can not be said of batik or paintings made on banana leaves ... already bought in South Africa and Mozambique.
The pictures representing the Masai capture our attention, are very beautiful and are not all equal, each painting has its own style.
I want to smile telling us what happened:
Childbirth from Thursday night ... we had already decided that we would have bought a picture with the Masai,
We love the way a boy stylized the Masai and even if we look elsewhere, we like his technique.
Commission of the measure because we have chosen is too large and we set the price.
We have three days available, then it can turn and just as we are sure that you wipe on time.
The move on Friday evening to control the work, but had not yet begun, please see the next day.
On Saturday evening we go to pick up the picture in question ... it has made even two, but instead of having done with the Masai on one side to another level, like the one who had exhibited great, made them all vertically rents because rents are was decided to be about eight ...
We are slightly disappointed, it was not a complicated thing, but it is becoming ...
Luckily we have time until Monday morning and they can do another.
We repeat again as we do, exactly like the one above except that instead of being two-meter is a meter is not difficult ... right?
He repeats those Masai but we want? Those involved in it ... he says eight ... Ok, for us there is no withdrawal problema.Concordiamo for Sunday night ...
Behold then the evening of my story ...
We leave for our expenses and our first step is under our control ...
He shows us his work ... and I would be put to cry ... was becoming an incubator ...
The measure was ok, the Masai beautiful, but try to imagine ... it was started by painting the eight Masai ... first made them ... letting rents reached the halfway realized that on the right side of the canvas was too much space and instead of adding two farms with a total of ten ... what he did: he started to thin .. and so we have the first letting and the distant past ...
The proportion and there was not even wanting something acceptable.
There was sorry a lot, but no ... we bought him we say: "No problem will do another ..." there is a problem we are leaving tomorrow, thank goodness that I began Thursday night ...
He says that now there is a good light tomorrow morning and immediately painted with the sun dries in an hour ... we have no choice but to trust it ... or purchase another Stone town.
We make the rounds of other capannina, many speak Italian and begging to come to watch, but so many have about the same things that the top ten after one is already sold out ...
Buy ... buy something as a soccer ball to a group of kids who have asked us a gift ... 5000tsh (less than € 3) is not anything for me if they can give a smile to the kids ... we hope at least that hard ...
We are too well from Job and Duniani, we are very opposed to cancel the booking done for the night on Monday and remain on Kendwa or follow the programs and closer in the afternoon at Stone town and consequently the airport ...
We decide to meet our piani.Domani ten must leave the room.
Around the beach there are a lot of guys that compete with the various villages you organize various excursions on the island .. We have found a nice, even if it is better to say that he has found us, you call Zambra as Zambrotta said he, speaking as Ariel and the Filipino maids personaggiodel Marco Marzocca and contracts transferring ... Having paid $ 40 to same we do not want to spend more on the back ... to end the contract and accepts.
Last dinner at Duniani exaggerated, so much so that Bertha is shocked at the fact that we order all but two choices ... so Tuesday we go home and then celebrating well aware that they will eat very well, without spending a figure exaggerated.
In all these days that we had lunch and dinner they have never paid, they have marked everything and tomorrow is the day to pay for them ...

MORNING IN KENDUWA, AFTERNOON AT STONE TOWN

After another breakfast over and giving a job the rest of Nutella that we failed to finish, we are ready to leave our rooms and since we agreed to leave in the early afternoon, we shall leave backpacks and everything else in upper house of the head, (behind Bertha and Job there are those who pay for everything and are the official owners of the place and have a guy that I forgot the name and a middle-aged lady who comes from the United States and has experienced six years in Arusha, before moving to ZANZIBAR, they are both kind and helpful).
We pay $ 240 rooms for 4 nights and settle the bill of what we ate and drank, paid to give you an idea 149000tsh ($ 124 = 86 € for two) in two drinking juice or soft drinks and eating very much with 4 meals main.
Me and Diego, we are curious to go and take our part and we do not know if we prepare ourselves for another disappointment or hope for the best ... At last that's just what we wanted. It 'very nice, the only new is that it is still wet We have three hours to dry before you rolled up and put in the pipe that he has done ... I pay $ 15 and get a T-shirt and a pair of slippers, to serve him more, and then tomorrow we go home ... With the same Jael and I thought, we have given to Bertha all beach towels and shampoo, bath or cream that we had because we want to lighten the weight, and because she is truly delightful and rather than leave it in a place unknown to stone town you better let them , with a beautiful smile.
Stretch out under the sun and waiting for the hour of departure with great nostalgia and happy to have been.
Punctual to 13:45 Zambri comes with the driver, the picture is almost dry and everything is pronto.Ciao Hello, we hear via mail ...
We use again an hour to arrive at the booked before leaving for the safari, to be sure of not having to run two hours to find rooms and not to pay too much for a tavern ...
Immediately leave the backpacks in the room and we head to "center" to end the recent purchases and maybe find something original or special.
Again we all attack ec'invitano to enter into their stores ... turn, stressed out and buy it ... always trying to bargain as much as possible.
While we are around the girl's telephone to Todomondo to confirm the flight and be able to return if something has changed ... She reassured us and we confirm the flight, even if security wants my mobile number.
We are undecided whether to take our dinner at La Fenice or Love ... mieo Comparing menus exposed to see that my love not much choice then choose the Phoenix

Dinner at
PHOENIX
The last evening, not at the expense badiamo, we want to try more things possible and not having lunch we have a lot of hunger, we order two of the new brought to the head ...
All delicious and plentiful and of excellent quality, for example eat: gnocchi with crab, octopus salad and potato, penne with avocado and do not remember .. and I do not odiatemi .. but I like a lot: spaghetti carbonara as the second ... around a pizza margherita, lamb skewers and do not remember ... is not economicissimo but sometimes a species end holiday grant you that something is the most important thing is that it is good, you really stress when you pay and food or you do not like you bear an invisible ...

We have already greeted giving time for breakfast when I get a text message:
Flight confirmed through Thursday 28/08
How ?????? Trauma Diego ... had to be at work Wednesday, the more that his company has already opened on Monday ... Please note our fellow adventure Andrea & Jael and after a while we decide mental vacuum that the only thing to do is ask for more explanations and begin to "curse" the charter and a bit too Todomondo .. (sure with a flight paid € 611 I do not think one should have the courage to complain about ... in August some mistake there is also ...)
Are the top ten in the evening and it is useless to leave all, leaving only the two men, in search of a desperate telefono.Tutti those who ask, since it is a local call with a mobile phone but have no money ... run into the night in the dark el'uomo black when it is dark you do not see ... true, true!
At the end into a luxury hotel and ask once again ... happy paying $ 1 per minute ..
The girl todomondo says that it is overbooked (understand later that it was a situation that is dragged over time) before Thursday there is a flight available, telefonatevi tomorrow morning and I can tell you where you can stay charged by us for these two days ... Ok, good night.


To sleep:
GARDEN LODGE
gardenlodge@zanlink.com
Since the town is in a considerable state of decay beginning to think that there is an economic accommodation that is beautiful and decente.Se paid so much to find some ..
I can not guarantee this on my statement, I have turned all the hotels.
The garden is a place without infamy and without praise, certainly all very clean and white, which is always a good feeling ... In the room there is not much room to move, even if I Diego and we were lucky and had two beds and then there is always more space because you can support more stuff, the room of Andrew and Jael was with a single bed and 1 mt of floor floor intorno.Comunque better this Annex that the coco de mer.Una night costs $ 40 with coalzione.
If you do not find better or for a night can be done.
Breakfast in a top floor terrace, which could also be a nice place but in our eyes was not: 1) because our mood was grounded because of the canceled flight and had the bitterness of having left the Duniani a Kendwa and we did not want to end up in a village type Eden village full of tourists ... 2) the view from the terrace is not anything special just tetti squalid, nothing more .. 3rd) most distressing terrace is full of ravens jumping on the tables empty and trying to open bottles of salsa and you fly and Gracciano intorno.La breakfast is: a red banana, a piece of papaya, tea, a slice of toast with butter and jam and un'omlette. Everything eatable.
Once in the room close the backpacks and we call the Tour tipa operetor to know our new accommodation.
Ask at reception if the ten-can leave the room after half an hour because we do not know how long you spend making phone calls .. explaining launched the new problem .. He is impassive: 10:00!
Ok, let's go, we return to the 09:50 and the keys of the two chambers are already at the door and attacked the women are cleaning the inside and have already started to clean ... Frankly even this small detail I have not gone down if ... ten for me, it must be for them.
Patience over, sometimes they are lucky that I do not speak English, we avoid a po 'of polemics or clarifications.

LAST DAYS IN PWANI MCHANGANI

The girl Todomondo has placed us in a resort on the other side of the island, told us is in zone Kiwengwa.
We hope not only to end up in a mega-village, full of animation and Italians who do not know the difference as to be in Rimini, or in Africa because they never leave the village ... just understand that I am in rimini because the sea is more beautiful ...
The guide gives this area as the most tourism at large hotels, we have no choice, they all pay a part of the carriage.
Contract with the taxi that was to accompany us to the airport and explain the change of destination .. all'osso pulling up and fix the price at $ 30 one way.
Spend an hour to get a good Kiwengwa, enter the path after us are the villages of the great names ... are all lined up on the side of the sea ... we start reading the names one after the other, but nothing, no one knows where is our begin to worry ......... continue on the road to ask a policeman, and explains or better explained to the driver that is not in zone Kiwengwa but in the Pwani Mchangani and then begins to explain the right, left, left, right, it seems infognato and a bit distant, we start to think that maybe is not a megavillaggio.
We arrive in a local village, the road is not paved but full of holes, finally we see the sign WAIKIKI, but we are in the midst of huts and houses in ruins ... in an African village.
We can not believe that there todomondo sent in a tavern ...
Full board and accommodation to:
WAIKIKI RESORT
www.waikikizanzibar.com
flavio76sharm@hotmail.it
Tel + 255 777 877 329

We arrived, a Masai opens the gate: pulling a sigh of relief, it seems a normal and peaceful.
Two minutes after arriving and Flavio Angelo, a Ravenna and Genoa that after years in a village animation ever in this area have decided to groped ... you can see their photos and read their stories on their sito.Insieme to their c 'is also the girlfriend of Flavio: Sara, is English and is kind, disponibilissima and very pretty.
Accommodate us and opens our eyes to heaven:
is a very good taste with a beautiful sea front.
The facility is open for just over a 'year. There is a central base with open arms that acts as a restaurant or entertainment room with the bar and tables and sofas.
Wishing on the evening Angelo sings live and dj Flavio can return and get you dancing.
Really nice place, all furnished with good taste.
In front of the sea is beautiful, with fabulous colors, is affected by tides, although I believe it is not really that bad to walk off and see some beautiful shells or what the sea leaves ... but we discovered during these two days we have always calculated evil and we could not enjoy the beautiful side of low tide ...
There are only six rooms and is truly a place of peace and tranquility.
Can be found on the Internet, offered by the various agencies that are there in the network or you can do everything alone organize your stay alone with the help of Flavio ... mandategli mail and will be happy to help.
He told us that if one stops for longer periods are ready to negotiate on the price ... would normally be $ 60 per person with breakfast.
Actually be a little 'out of our reach, but fortunately not pagavamo us.
Once home, I received mail like this to give you an idea of what is on the net:

SUPER LAST MINUTE !!!!! ZANZIBAR

FLIGHT FROM MILAN, ROME VERONA O L 'SEPTEMBER 8 + STAY 7NOTTI / 9
DAYS IN THE WAIKIKI RESORT
FULL BOARD: EURO 790 PER PERSON.

FOR INFO: 0183/654302 or [info@zanzibarviaggi.it]

We found ourselves splendidly, in our case where everything was paid, full board as we were good, the kitchen was almost entirely Italian.
We brought the same kind of pasta with a choice of condiments, usually a vegetable or meat and then you could choose between a second of meat or fish.
But also have the menu where you can be free to choose what you most enjoy. The prices there seemed buoni.Anche breakfast is good, quite varied and typically Italian.
For us, Waikiki was a pleasant discovery, a great place, the beautiful and spacious rooms ... two days were gifts and we enjoyed the most.
On the beach outside the resort you can find it locally and you want to sell some beautiful and huge shells, or guys who offer boat tours or excursions on the barrier of the island.
You can decide to go with them or arrange farvel by boys of Waikiki.
'll Be a nice place but if you have the courage to come out you can also experience the true Africa and the air of ZANZIBAR.
Here's what they say around the Waikiki:
Location: The Resort is located in Waikiki Pwani Mchangani, one of the most beautiful beaches of ZANZIBAR, white sand and about 5 km long enjoys an excellent location in a quiet area, but at the same time is just 15 minutes from Kiwengwa , one of the most touristic areas of the island. A 40 km there is Stone Town, the capital of the island, and in just 45 minutes you reach the airport.
Rooms: has 6 double rooms, masonry and exclusively furnished with local materials. All rooms face the sea.
Facilities: Restaurant (includes Italian and international cuisine, thanks to the chef prepared for 5 years in Italy), bar, garden furnished with relaxing hammocks and dondoli, where there is also a massage area, library, multilingual staff (English, Italian, Swahili ), beach volleyball court. A payment: snorkelling, diving, riding, deep sea fishing, bicycle and car rental.
Entertainment: Evening entertainment with African folklore, live music, acrobatic show, etc.. No mini club.

Spend the time remaining in dolce far niente, and relaxation at 100%,
take advantage of the resort on foot pedal for the sea, playing cards and even on Wednesday evening can also play beach volleyball against a Masai boys who act as guards of the resort.
On Thursday morning at dawn, literally see the sun rise, the taxi to take us and accompanies us to the airport.
ZANZIBAR leave with the thought of this discovery, and especially nice to have seen a sea tale.
We are happy to have passed as our two weeks, having seen the animal nature and a beautiful sea.
Congratulations for your next trip and if you have any questions we are happy to help.
Hello hello
Daniela & Diego