Safari among the corals
ONLY FLIGHT?! YES, THANKS!
For the holidays this year we set out to go to Zanzibar to be able to do a safari in Tanzania.
The catalog costs pero 'were prohibitive and as we usually do we put ourselves in search of a nice last minute.
Bids with the O capitalized even a shadow, almost start to consider the possibility 'of changing goal but one day .... esce un'offertona latest minutes for a single flight, and this has made our fortune!
Our journey begins from the moment we have a reservation for the flight in your hand and not knowing where we go to bed once and landed in Zanzibar.
My friends are a little agitated and would like to book agency in one night a few of the many villages on the coast of Kiwengwa but I insist that there 'no problem (Hakuna Matata), and that everything will be' fine, this also brings a spirit different holidays.
Thanks to site T.P.C. I was recently contacted Cesare, an Italian who lives in Mafia (the archipelago of Zanzibar), ask for information in general on Zanzibar and safari in Tanzania. For one day after starting the re-contact urgently ask for the latest advice and I will redirect him to another Italian who lives in Zanzibar, saying to ask him once landed and informing him of our arrival.
8 hours in the air fell to thinking about who we would expect to find at the airport and if we had never found.
And finally landed as suggeritoci by Cesare, Tonino ask that the first African to encounter after the migration.
Not even finished saying his name, and we find out at the Coastal Travel, a tour operator Zanzibari, with a phone in one hand and Italian voice of the other head that says, "Pamela! Hello, I'm Tonino, I sent my driver to pick us see in a few minutes. "
Shortly after it reaches our taxi which brings us to the Marine Center Mton a small resort just outside Stone Town.
Here at last we know of the Tonino we assign one of his bungalow, and now is very available.
We begin immediately with the worry (myself especially) for the safari in Tanzania and he is now working to see if there are available 'on flights and in the field we tend to choose.
Tonino works for Coastal Travel in so little time can do the booking and important thing we can rip a really good price!
Satisfied, we follow his advice and go on from from (local buses) in the direction of Stone Town.
Stone Town and 'a city' very characteristic and deserves to be seen. The market and 'very particular and even the streets with all those streets ... careful not to lose as we have done. If you need to buy souvenirs and 'a great place but ... Be prepared to negotiate big! Stone Town we especially remember the smell that's' in a sometimes not too pleasant, especially near the fish market and meat. Let's say that most of us' that we smell the smell called, however, and the 'distinctive and you can not' miss the smell!
Returned to the hotel with us from the mythical grant from a nap on the beach until sunset.
The next morning at 7:30 we are already 'at the airport. Tonino despite the time and 'came to accompany us and so' we were able to enjoy the treatment of "friends of Tonino" preferential check in and hear hear .... place in the front line next to the pilot!
You fly the airplane with 12 seats and in our case, we stopped first in Dar Er Salaam, where we changed medium, and after we left for the reservation of the Selous.
Here we expect to find the owners of the Rufiji River Camp which in a few minutes of jeeps took us to the field.
The tents are very comfortable and gia 'now you start to breathe the atmosphere of the savanna. The only noise that you hear and 'one of the hippos in the river below the camp! The view e 'stupenda.
Here begins the most 'beautiful of all this holiday: the safari.
We were 4 days and we saw everything: hippos, crocodiles, giraffes, elephants, lions, leopards, jene, zebra, gnu, impala and chi piu 'ne ha piu' ne metta.
But the emotion most 'big' was the first night when the window of our tent we saw two tick proboscis.
Yes, xche 'that night the elephants decided to come and eat right there' out of our tents and we with a hint of fear and emotion so we were up all night to watch them.
Between hiking and the other, the 4 days have passed and it 'now time to return to Zanzibar.
As for the second part of our holiday we wanted to dedicate ourselves to relax over a beautiful beach, before leaving had informed Tonino that our return from the safari and we wanted to move as he has always fulfilled our wishes by contacting a friend on the north (namely Kendwa), and organizing our move.
Landed in Zanzibar in fact we found a taxi to expect (with its sign) which led us first to Tonino to withdraw the remaining luggage and after a Kendwa as programs.
A Kendwa we stayed at the Rosa dei Venti, a small resort but nice and easy especially with a beautiful beach and a sea that is not affected much of the tides so it 'possible to swim at all hours of the day.
Here we found Francesco, Tonino's friend, and he has' proven to be very courteous. Every day we asked what we wanted and eat according to our demands will result in the fresh fish and then cook on the spot.
Given the proximity of Nungwi, one afternoon there we went by boat and it 'was a delightful day.
The place and 'very nice, although a little' tour, and we were able to admire one of the best sunsets' beautiful throughout the holiday.
Here too our days are passed in tranquility 'and rest.
The only downside of this place, so if 'you can' call, and 'that it faces the west coast, in the morning time and' always nuvolo (I do not know whether it is always so 'still in the period when we were we era).
Because Italy had heard of this phenomenon and the fact that on the beach of Kiwengwa, located to the east, the time and 'better, we decided to move to see with our eyes.
We then called a taxi and we take the facts in the area of Italian villages.
Here we found the place strangely Veraclub where we found a very familiar rather than 'from usual tourist village.
We found ourselves well and we stayed until the end of the holiday to dedicate ourselves to the bathroom and the sun.
The vacancy and 'was beautiful, perhaps one of the most' beautiful made so far, and in Italy we have brought so many memories: from safari to get to the colors of the sea, into the Zanzibari, people, the smile of children and Jambo to anywhere that feels even by those who do not know, and you ', even the smell of Stone Town.
But especially a special remembrance goes to Tonino (Caesar and that he did know) that with his help has helped to make this holiday and what not to overlook even a low price.
Jambo to all .... Hakuna Matata!
Pamela and Mark