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Now this is what we call a travel day! We left 33 Fifth on Thursday at 3pm NYC time. The 5 1/2 hour flight to LA was as pleasant as these things can be. It was then a nice and easy transfer to China Air, whose […]

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A last, laconic morning in Zanzibar. Just too hot to venture out before our travels, so we soaked up our last bit of ac before departing for the airport. To really get the authentic local experience, we rode in the back of the hotel’s semi-covered pick-up truck, […]

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Another bland breakfast, though on their lovely ocean-front terrace. Wendy then left for her spice tour and Milton went to his Chumbe island day.
Milton’s day: Boarded the small, old motorboat for the hour ride to tiny Chumbe island. It is a coral island which Tanzania has […]

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Another night cocooned within our netting, waking periodically not knowing just where we were. One of us was quite glad to be within four walls, listening to only the white noise of the ac; one of us really misses the tent/outdoors life. We breakfasted at the terrace […]

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What a weather-filled night! Our sleep was accompanied by rain, thunder, wind (and the ubiquitous animal sounds). We finished breakfast and packing in time for our 9:30 departure, which was then delayed by about 45 minutes, due to the weather. This gave Wendy time to bond […]

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Awoke at 6:30, ugh! (did I really used to do this?) We set off in the Land Rover with Jules and Marie from E. 72nd Street and John, today’s guide whose english was unfortunately not up to our other guides’ levels. Early on, right by the airstrip, […]

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Some of the things we’ve learned thus far about animals: zebras are not ruminants (don’t chew their cud) and have 24 different types of worms in their stomach to help them digest; every zebra has a different stripe pattern, so a mother about to give birth will separate […]

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A great sleep here in East African paradise. We lingered over breakfast so were a bit late for meeting Titus and setting off for the crater, but, what the hell, we can do whatever we want here!
The drive along the rim was the now-familiar jarring, swerving, […]