Zanzibar is an amazing place, rich in history, culture and with some fantastic beaches, BUT, the tourism is partly ruining it. Western tourists with little respect for the local life, walking through the streets in hotpants and bikini tops, while most local women wear nikabs and burkas. Guys trying to immitate the western boys by...Read More
I loove trains, and I have already completed the most famous train rides I can think of; from the Trans Siberian Railway to the Silk Road and riding on top of the World’s longest train in Mauritania. The Tanzanian Central Line was no different. It was old with curtains, furniture and wall coverings from the...Read More
Kigoma is the kind of place I think that it would be nice to live in for a couple of years. It’s small, safe, but still has everything you need. There is a small expat community, but more in the humanitarian sector than anything else, so most locals have good respect for the Mzungus/white people...Read More
Couchsurfing really made my trip to Kigoma memorable. My host there, Anthony from Belgium, was working with distributing beans and fertilizer in a city called Uvinza and had asked me if I could drive his motorbike and girlfriend over so that we could find a place to go camping around there on the weekend. Loving...Read More