by Kate Gentry | Nov 26, 2025
We flew from Kenya, just having had a magical 3-day safari experience where the lodge we stayed at catered to our every need and continuously wanted to do things for us, to Ethiopia where we would be on an exciting 13 day tour with a local tour company. In order to...
by Kate Gentry | Nov 15, 2025
Kenya has some great places to go on safari! If a safari trip is what you want, the lodges, roads and cuisine are a notch higher than in most of Tanzania. But I have had such great safari viewings in Tanzania, that I would still rank Tanzania higher for safaris if...
by Kate Gentry | Nov 1, 2025
It’s interesting to travel from Tanzania to Kenya and compare them from our Western perspective. Right off the bat we noticed that Kenyans wear mostly clothes people in our country wear. and in fact, since a lot of them are donated clothes, we see lots of United...
by Kate Gentry | Nov 1, 2025
Tanzania has the reputation of being the peaceful sub-Saharan African country – people here prize getting along and avoiding conflict – or so we were told. The national elections on October 29th were supposed to be peaceful. We heard that the incumbent was all but...
by Kate Gentry | Oct 21, 2025
We’ve spent over a week in Zanzibar- the beach getaway place for tourists. It is still subject to the same lack of modernization that the mainland is, however, being on a lovely island with the Indian Ocean lapping on the sand, it is easier to forgive and...
