Ice Mountain Adventure Travel

New Year’s Day 2009 – Mikumi National Park Safari in Tanzania

Nathan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:27:58 +0000

We welcomed our first New Year in Africa at midnight and five hours later we were driving through the Tanzanian dawn dark on our way to Mikumi National Park, about 100 kilometers from Morogoro. It was our first African safari, even though it was only a day trip. We were determined not to be the [...]

“Don’t Feed the Baboons!” A Do It Yourself Safari in Mikumi National Park Tanzania

Nathan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:15:10 +0000

What could be better than driving your own car through some of the wildest places on Earth. National Parks in Tanzania are perfect for do-it-yourself safaris. We recently drove to Mikumi National Park in central Tanzania for a quick holiday. Once in the park, we drove everywhere ourselves, choosing when and where to go, how [...]

Zanzibar Top Ten List - The Best Things About Stone Town

Nathan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:00:05 +0000

Top Ten - Best Things We Found in Stone Town, Zanzibar - Not in any particular order 1. Archipelago Café Located in the center of Stone Town, near the shore, the Archipelago was the one restaurant we found that consistently had excellent food at decent prices. We ate there a few times and it was great, except [...]

Some Things We Disliked About Stone Town, Zanzibar

Nathan — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:00:31 +0000

This is our top seven list of things we did not like about Stone Town, capital city of the Island of Zanzibar. 1. Too Much Tourism Admittedly, the Christmas Holidays are known as the high season in Zanzibar but it was really annoying to be asked every few steps if we wanted to buy music, cashew nuts, [...]

SCUBA Diving in Zanzibar – Drift Diving and Underwater Photography

Nathan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:00:23 +0000

On the last day of my PADI Advanced Open Water Course in Zanzibar, I elected to try two new dives. The first was a drift dive and the second was underwater photography. I thought both would be easy – how hard can it be to simply drift on a current through water? And I’ve been [...]

SCUBA Diving Zanzibar – Deep Dive and Navigation Diving

Nathan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:57:14 +0000

After my first two dives, the only dives I’ve done in the last 8 years, I was really excited to do more on the second day of my PADI Advanced Open Water Course in Zanzibar. It felt like the perfect day to do it as well – sunny skies and fluffy clouds over a turquoise [...]

Holiday in Zanzibar – Welcome to Heat Stroke In the Sun

Nathan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:30:52 +0000

After two dives and a boat ride in the sun, we pulled the dhow boat back into the beach in the middle of Stone Town. “Damn, it is so hot,” I remember thinking. As I stumbled around the dive shop and then met Andrea and some new friends for lunch, I just got hotter and [...]

SCUBA Diving in Zanzibar – Taking the PADI Advanced Open Water Course

Nathan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:08:18 +0000

For Christmas, Andrea and I decided we would give each other dive lessons. She had been talking about it for years and since we are now living just a few hours from Zanzibar, it seemed like the perfect time. We researched dive companies and everyone said One Ocean was the best dive shop in Zanzibar, [...]

Stone Town, Zanzibar – Narrow Alleyways, Peeling Paint and Fascinating People Watching

Nathan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:53:42 +0000

Today I had a free day in Zanzibar and one of my favorite things to do in any new place is just wander around with my camera to capture little mental or photographic snapshots of a place. Here is what I saw in Stone Town today: In this conservative Muslim Society, 3 European teenagers walked [...]

Traveling from Morogoro to the Island of Zanzibar, Tanzania - Our First African Adventure

Nathan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:37:23 +0000

In Morogoro, we were still living in a single room in the Morogoro Hotel. It’s known as the best hotel in town, but since we’ve been living in hotels, out of just our suitcases, for four months now, we had to get out for the holidays. All of Andrea’s colleagues had taken their [...]