Expedition Africa on TV – from Zanzibar to Ujiji

Tonight, there will be the start of an interesting TV series called ”Expedition Africa” on A&E Television Networks. From Zanzibar to Ujiji at Lake Tanganyika, four modern-day explorers retrace Stanley and Livingstone’s famous search for the sources of the Nile through 970 miles of hell. They face countless dangers from predators and insects to disease and nature’s own fury.

If you missed an episode, there is also a website where you can watch it, view images and play adventurous games: http://www.history.com/expedition/episode-1/. Due to licensing reasons, the videos unfortunately can’t be watched outside the US (unless you access the Internet using a US proxy server).

The website also offers a nice game for your iPhone or iPod Touch that allows you to actively experience the historical trip from Zanzibar to Ujiji.

Tanzania Ultimate Safari Sweepstakes

Today, an advertising campaign for Tanzania has been launched across the USA. There will be television advertising spots on CNN and HLN and on airport networks. There is also a website http://cnnpromos.com/Tanzania09/ where you can win trips to Tanzania.

Website for Huruma Women Group

The Huruma Women Group is a community-based organisation of Tella Mande in rural Moshi, initiated and directed by Mary Saria and Berther Mawenya. The aim of Huruma (swahili for ‘compassion’) is to help the disadvantaged and vulnerable families in the community. ZARA has been a friend and supporter of Huruma Women Group for several years. In July, Huruma Women group welcomed their first international volunteer, Julia from Germany who has degrees in social work and educational sciences. Before starting with Huruma, she first spent 3 months in Dar-es-Salaam accompanying the social workers of the SOS Children’s village at their ‘Family Strengthening Outreach Program’. Then during a further 3 months in Tanzania with the Huruma Women Group, she tried to assign certain principles that worked at the big organisation in the capital to the small rural initiative of Mary and Berther. As a result of Julia’s voluntary work, Huruma now even have their own website, as she convinced a friend of hers who is web designer, Jacek Jonczyk to create a webpage for the charitable group free of charge. The website is now online at http://www.huruma.info. ZARA thanks Julia for her big support, Jacek for his effort and Gabriel of World Unite! for translating the website’s English texts into Swahili.

Tanzania Tourist Board video

We have just discovered the beautiful official Tanzania Tourist Board video about Tanzania on Youtube. Enjoy!

Amazing safari footage

See yourself what happened the other day in the savanna;-)

Hyænen in Tanzania

More and more of our customers follow our call to send us the links to their Tanzania holiday photo galleries. The latest email we received was from Birthe and Ole Hetland from Denmark who have some great wildlife pictures and landscapes of Tanzania and Zanzibar on their website http://www.bredeole.dk. We think even those who don’t speak Danish will figure out most of the animal names in the menu selection! Thank you Birthe and Ole for your contribution.  

Send us the link to your image galleries

There are more and more of our customers who upload their safari or Kilimanjaro trek photos to image gallery services such as FlickR, Picasa, KodakGallery and others. The latest addition is singer and songwriter Mary Clare Reinhardt who has already appeared on our blog. Her Kili pictures can be seen here. If you want to share your pictures with fellow travellers, don’t hesitate to contact us and we are happy to post your link on this blog.