Hiking Lion’s Head - like its Table Mountain counterpart - is a must for any Cape Town visitor. And, when you find yourself in South...

When a country totally cancels drinking, you have to find some other activities. As expected, there are plenty of things to do in Cape...

We hinted at it in our Cape Town bus tour post, but South Africa was about to go into full prohibition mode. With a scheduled overnight...

We’d never done one of those hop-on, hop-off bus tours together, the ones with the London-esque, red double-decker buses. But, without a...

If you know next to nothing about South Africa, you’ve still likely heard two intimately linked names: Nelson Mandela and apartheid. The...

Towering over Cape Town, you can’t ignore Table Mountain - absolutely dominates the skyline. And, the city has grown around this...

How do you describe an incredible city in a single blog post? You don’t. Cape Town just has too much to offer. Looking back at a month...

Neither of us had ever been to South Africa. And, rewinding a bit, to get a visa into Tanzania, our visa application required a booked...

Like our sunset catamaran cruise, sometimes it makes sense to do the organized tour thing. And, snorkeling in Zanzibar definitely falls...

As advertised, our time in Nungwi was the perfect R & R after the go, go, go craziness of the safari. But, after a few weeks, that...

We’re spending a year traveling and working, but we certainly don’t consider ourselves expats. We have a home. Actually, we have three...

Most of our Nungwi days followed a work, beach, eat, repeat routine. But, we also threw in some “organized fun.” Taking a sunset...

You can’t spend time in Zanzibar - or Tanzania, in general - without hearing the phrase pole pole. Pronounced “po-lay po-lay,” it’s...

During our safari, we both took time off work - couldn’t realistically support clients during nine full days of game drives, post-drive...

You can plan a safari countless ways. Some people fly directly in and out of Serengeti, some start there then work back east towards...

While you can crack the safari nut countless ways, we decided to save Serengeti National Park for last, spending our final four nights...

From Tarangire, we’d head northwest to our middle stop: Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Most famous for Ngorongoro Crater (actually a...

Moving east to west from Arusha, you hit Tarangire National Park first, making it a common sense first stop on our three-part safari. ...

Need to provide some full disclosure on our Tanzanian safari plans. Actually, we need to provide some full disclosure on how we paid for...

It’s been a recurring theme in our stories, but we’ll reiterate here: Chipp’s basically a hipster. He’ll fight it - but can’t really deny...