Lovely, serene, oasis-like resort at the foot of Kilimanjaro. The accommodation is pretty and spacious (the private lodges are a little hard to find at night so bring a torch if you intend to go wandering), the food delicious and the service great. They have a great little gift shop too and seemed equally at ease catering for large groups or couples.

I only spent two nights here before and after climbing Kilimanjaro, but wish I could have stayed longer. The pool looked lovely but I didn’t get a chance to go in.

Would have got 5 stars, but I didn’t get enough of a chance to explore it to be able to know if it had that extra special something necessary for the big 5.

I climbed Kilimanjaro in 2007 and loved every moment (apart from the occasional mammouth altitude headache and the stomach bug I got on the day which kept me up all night).

I went with a group of 14 up the Lemosho trail (which I can highly recommend due to it being 6 days up which gives you a great chance to aclimatise). For the first time in my life I actually lost my appetite too, which was kind of strange, but brilliant for the waistline as I only ate what I needed to survive.

The group morale is brilliant, the porters inspiring, the scenery breathtaking…and the feeling of achievement you get upon reaching the summit after a 10hr night-time climb in sub-zero temperatures is unbeatable. You get fit, have an incredibly fun time and raise lots of money for charity…what better way is there to spend 10 days of your life!

A suprisingly nice place with an honnest kitchen, where you don't have to run to the loo shortly after consuming something there. The prices are really good and the staff quite friendly.

HAHAHAHAHA not "gate" on spelling though

Die ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST liegt nur ein paar Schritte vom großen Marktplatz und dem zentralen Busbahnhof von Stonetown/Zanzibar-City entfernt. Diese Kirche wird auf jeden Stadtrundgang angelaufen und die Besichtigung des Kirchenkomplexes kostet ein wenig Eintritt. Das ist es aber wert!
Zu der Kirche selber kann ich fast gar nichts sagen, die Kirche wurde aber auf dem Gelände des großen Sklavenmarks von Sansibar errichtet. Auf dem Gelände gibt es ein kleines Museum zur Sklavengeschichte, sowie ein recht eindruckvolles Mahnmal.

Wer auf Sansibar station macht und etwas zeit übrig hat, sollte sich diese Kirche udn das Skalvenmuseum unbedingt anschauen!

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ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST was build on the old slaves marketplace. The church itself is not so interesting but the little museum of slavery at Zanzibar is! You will get a short idea how slaves was captured and prisoned until they are sold. You can walk throug the old arrest areas and the slavery memorial outside will give you an idea how slaves feel.

Visit this destination!

Of all the bad airports, this is without any doubt the most primitive one I know. Since a year of two, the ramshackle small airport building has been 'revamped' so you don't have to wait outside anymore, but toilets clearly were not part of the revamping. So make sure you don't have to go, because you never want to see a public Tanzanian toilet (shit pit would be more correct).

Everything is manual, and from time to time, the electricity goes. Very irritating is that upon arrival, some official may come up to you, control your passport and ask all sorts of irrelevant questions although you can only fly from Dar Es Salaam!

Be sure you have arranged transportation or you may in for a bad joke

Although there have been improvements over the years, this is still one of the worst organized airports I know. Some are fundamental: it is e.g. not possible to check in and go for a drink with your friends and family afterwards. Once you're in, you're and no way to get out again. And of course, the only restaurant is outside.

Service upon arrival is relatively quick and also the border formalities are - if at least you bought your visa at an embassy before. Which is not obvious, because the embassy for Singapore eg.g is in... India! No one in his right mind is going to send his passport there.

an amazing find! very cheap and very clean and spacious. a calm atmosphere and helpful staff. great to get away from the hectic little streets of stone town.

This hotel that towers over the village on the bay once was the centre of the German colonial administration in this remote part of Tanzania. It was built in the style of a Moorish castle (like the one in Bagamoyo that is sadly turning into a ruin). It was rebuilt by an English NGO with the collaboration of the Tanzanian government and it employs about 30 locals. There are about 6 rooms in all, so make sure you make a reservation (although in the 'rain season' you may find yourselves almost alone.The food is OK - the best coffee in the village, an English-like breakfast and they grow lettuce. There is a swimming pool and a very nice garden with old trees. Behind the hotel is the hill which you can climb via the German designed steps. Halfway is the water station that still worls perfectly after 100 years, and on the top once stood a very imposing boabab tree that was replaced unfortunately by a mobile phone relay tower.The large holes on the top are due - or so the story goes -to some fortunedigger. Staff is very helpful but not always very efficient.Prices are high compared to other hotels, but none has the same quality

A very nice and green place! The owners have planted more than 100 different kind of palm trees. I enjoyed the accomodation and also the small village "Bagamoyo". The stuff also is very kind and helpful. Whatever you need: Just ask, and I am sure you will get help right away!

This really is a place to be!

(And if you like to improve your talents: There is a college of music and arts in town. There you will find many people from all around the world who are studying music, painting and dancing)

Mikindani is a treasure on the South Tanzanian coast and of course not in Dar Es Salaam, but Qype never seems to have heard of this place. Mikindani is a village on a beautiful bay with lots of old Arab houses that is frozen in time: once the Arabs and Indians were forced out by the policies of the government in the sixties, absolutely nothing happened, and the locals had no money to fix the houses they inherited.

Ten Degrees South is - next to the Old Boma - the only place to stay, and this at an acceptable price. There are now new rooms that were built a few years ago and that are considerably more expensive than the ones in the main building. They look nice, have their own bathroom and that's it: no self-catering.

The rooms in the main building are basic, but OK (there were a few where it leaked in when there were heavy rains, but that should be solved I hear). Same for toilets and showers (no hot water, but hey, you are in Tanzania!) The rooms are cleaned regularly (some shouting from time to time helps). The mosquito nets are OK, and so are the noisy fans.

Breakfast may be disappointing: bring your own coffee (! Tanzania is a coffee producing country, but you can only get gruelsome cofeepowder coffee) and your own expressomaker. Buy milk, otherwise you also get some powder from Kenya although Tanzania prides itself to have 40 million cows. Timing is sloppy if you expect a breakfast a 7 am sharp. So take it easy, and wait until baba has found someone who sells eggs - OK, this only happened once, but still.

As to other meals: all considered, this is one of the best options here. Samosas are excellent - if they are available. Don't try the steaks: the cooks have no idea what to do with them, and fry them in oil until they resemble leather. Stick to the fish! And you need to be able to cope with the eternal British league football matches, cricket matches (yawn!) and rugby matches..