Tanzania travelblog Archives • Maverickbird

Stone Town, slave market, and spice gardens of Zanzibar

It is easy to wander through the narrow alleys of Stone Town, when your hotel is located right in the […]

It takes just a fifty minutes speed boat ride to reach the very beautiful Zanzibar island. Located off the coast […]

February 27, 2026

My Tanzania holidays officially started in Kenya. I landed in Nairobi to embark on my first overlanding trip through Africa […]

February 27, 2026

The Serengeti National Park needs no introduction. The word Serengeti is derived from ‘Siringet’ which in Maa (language of the […]

February 25, 2026

Serengeti National Park is just three hours away from Ngorongoro Conservation Area. It was midday by the time we left […]

February 25, 2026

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ngorongoro Conservation Area is an ancient inactive collapsed volcanic caldera. It is the largest […]

February 17, 2026

We left from our campsite in Arusha the next morning around three. It was an unusually early start but our […]

February 17, 2026

Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous archipelago of Tanzania in East Africa. It is composed of many small islands, out of which Pemba […]

March 7, 2019

My group headed for the shore soon after the Prison Island visit and after a quick lunch were on our […]

March 7, 2019

The next morning dhow cruise to Prison Island was the perfect way to start a day. I left the hotel […]

March 6, 2019