A safari in Africa usually includes an attempt to spot the “Big Five”. This includes seeing an African lion, an African elephant, a rhinoceros, a leopard and … a Cape buffalo. ‘Wait!’ I hear you cry. ‘A buffalo? Not a cheetah or a hippo? Or even a giraffe?’Nope. The fifth animal that you must see on safari in Africa is definitely the Cape buffalo. I did not make this up. Why a buffalo?The term ‘Big Five’ was actually coined by game-hunters and…
During our honeymoon in Tanzania, we took the opportunity to explore below sea as well as above. We went diving a number of times with One Ocean Dive Centres, who had one of their many satellite bases at our hotel, Ocean Paradise, on Zanzibar. They took us to the dive sites at the Mnemba Atoll Conservation area – the most well known area to dive, on they island, which is just off the North East coast. They were very professional…
Any tourist visiting Swahili-speaking Kenya or Tanzania, will quickly learn to greet people they meet with a friendly ‘jambo‘. And like many other Swahili words it’s easy for English speakers to pronounce and really quite nice to say! However, ‘jambo‘ by itself is usually only really used with foreigners. If you want to make that little bit more effort, the correct greeting is ‘hujambo‘ if you are the first person to speak. The response is ‘sijambo‘. Another common greeting that you’ll…