The plan was simple: fly to Arusha, spend a day seeing the city, go do a safari for 3 days, back to a hotel for showers that night, leave the next day. Easy! Not so easy. As we were leaving Zanzibar, I started feeling sick and threw up a bunch in the airport bathroom. I…
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This wasn’t my first trip to Zanzibar, but it was definitely better than the first one. From Comoros, we connected through Dar es Salaam, the capital, a disorganized visa/passport process, and then a 20min flight over to Zanzibar. The hotel offered the same government rate as the taxi price to pick us up, so we…
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This was definitely just a “check the box” visit. From what I’d read and heard from others, visiting the Comoros isn’t that interesting unless you get to the far outer islands (not cheap, no daily flights) for scuba diving, and you need several days. The more common option for people trying to visit is a…
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There were 2 main reasons for us going to Addis Ababa. First, we’d learned our lesson last year about being in places where everything is closed on Christmas. Second, I’d only had 2 super short visits and never seen the amazing museums. Despite these, the trip was…meh. Even though Ethiopia celebrates Christmas in January, so…
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From Istanbul, we flew via Casablanca down to Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. Surprisingly, without planning it, a friend of mine was on our flight to Monrovia. We bumped into him at the transit security point in the Casablanca airport. I’ve seen him in 4 countries now, only 1 time planned. Arrival at the Monrovia…
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