Thu 17 May 2012 Maybe it was Mark Twain who said that there were lies, damned lies and statistics. This seems to be the case concerning statistics for Ngorongoro Crater. As I checked my figures for accuracy for this article I could find no two sources that agree. So I will endeavour to keep statistics to a minimum.
This aside, Ngorongoro Crater is a true marvel and, I believe, unique in Africa; it is located between the Lake Manyara National Park and the Serengeti. It
Kalisti works for me as a houseboy. He is 20(ish) years of age, an ex-streetboy, thief and thug. He came to me after serving three months in an east African prison for theft. I chose him – and it upsets many folk that I should choose an uneducated thug to help me – and he’s been with me for a year now. He has a fiancée and is about to marry her soon. He has taken a week off to
Forgive me please, as I am not a parent. I never have been a parent. However, I have, at forty-five, two newly adopted sons. Well, I should say two sons to help by assisting with schooling, donating time and being generally available. I am sadly the only male role figure in these young lives to offer any kind of love. These children are destitute, unwanted and unloved, desperate for attention and needing love. My family grows daily, as does the
East African Safari
Lodge Safaris in Tanzania… I will try to avoid the travel clichés of “unique”, “off the beaten track”, and “renowned for…”. These tired terms are used over and over again for almost every destination in Africa!
The lodge safari is the best way to see this lovely country. Tanzania has so much to offer, so many parks that have few visitors and high concentrations of game animals. Some National Parks boast just one lodge in a million hectares. Your lodge safari
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