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Day began with 90 minute road trip from Namanga to Arusha, then taxi from Arusha central to airport. Taxi driver a Maasai. Never went to school, but learnt English from a friend, worked hard, bought a second hand car for US$2,000, and now is a taxi driver. Road trip from Namang passed through beautiful rural areas with open fields, open plains, mountains, Maasai with their flocks of cows, goats, sheep and ...donkeys! |
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Arusha airport. A happy place with professional staff well trained to look after tourists. |
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Flight One was a 30 min trip to Lake Manyara, whose airport ...like those to follow ...was a dirt/gravel strip |
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My first time on a gravel/dirt air strip |
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Flight Two took us to Serengeti South |
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Lots of 4-wheel vehicles here for safaris |
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Largest building at "airport" is (very clean) toilet |
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Professional refueling |
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Beautiful blue birds in trees near runway |
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Where better than next to runway for natural fliers to build nests? |
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Another short flight then took us to Seronera |
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As in link at previous photo |
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Next flight took us to Rubondo
Island in Lake Victoria
(that's the airport terminal) |
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Four wheel vehicle approaching had some unexpected visitors |
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Three guys from China, two of them from Sichuan! |
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Final flight ...only one passenger! |
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The runway at Rubondo Island |
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My pilot ....using navigation, but flying manually |
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Mwanza airport - bitumen runway!
Thank you Lord for a fascinating day. Tanzania a most beautiful country. Small planes stay low, so excellent views of countryside. Make that spectacular views. Cost of 5 flights? US$171 Hope many readers can someday visit Tanzania! |
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In Mwanza I am enjoying the kind hospitality of the Jesuit community at St Francis Xavier Parish ...who are keenly interested in the campaign to warn people about the danger of drug trafficking. Today I'm due to meet some families of Tanzanian inmates in HK prisons |
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