tanzania posts
by Katie Hammel (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Oct 30th, 2009 at 2:00PM: A British couple sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania was kidnapped by Somali pirates and is now being held for ransom.
Paul and Rachel Chandler, both in their late 50's, had been sailing since March on their 38-foot sailboat and keeping a blog about their journey. Last week family and friends alerted authorities that they had not heard from the couple in several days, and shortly after, ...
by Stephen Greenwood (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Jun 23rd, 2009 at 1:00PM: This post is the first installment in a twice-weekly feature column covering the culture, sights, sounds and current events of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. I think the best way that I can introduce myself is to explain how I ended up in Hong Kong. A year ago I graduated from UCLA's film school after studying interactive design & media for two years and documentary film for two years. With ...
by Stephen Greenwood (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Jun 22nd, 2009 at 12:00PM: Introducing another new blogger at Gadling, Stephen Greenwood... Where was your photo taken? This photo was taken on the way up Kilimanjaro. I had the chance to hike it last November at the end of my stay in Tanzania. It was a great challenge, and a good introduction to trekking above 5,000m. Where do you live now?. SAR Hong Kong. I'll be here through the summer, editing a documentary about a ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Mar 30th, 2009 at 8:00AM: There is no doubt that we are fascinated with wildlife. We love to watch diverse and interesting animals, preferably in their natural habitats, and we're often willing to travel to remote places, sometimes at great expense, to see them. If you enjoy the kind of travel that allows for these kinds of animal encounters, they you'll want to check out BootsnAll's list of the Seven Endangered Species ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Mar 25th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Modern transportation has made it extremely easy for travelers to get to just about any place in the world. Each day there are international flights that can take us to the four corners of the globe and modern roads and trains will deliver us to the best sights and monuments to be found at our destination, before whisking us back to a comfy hotel, complete with hot and cold running water, room ...
by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Mar 23rd, 2009 at 1:30PM: Earth Hour is on Saturday, March 28 at 8:30 PM. The hospitality and travel industry seems to have embraced this commitment to environmentalism. There are plenty of noteworthy initiatives out there intended to show support for a planet that could probably use our help. Of course, some are more interesting than others. I'm pretty interested in what's going on at Abercrombie & Kent and Fairmont. ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Mar 17th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Pop singer Justin Timberlake tells GQ magazine that he intends to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, to raise awareness for that continent's dramatic water shortage which has hit nearly every nation and has had a tremendous impact on the environment and people that live there. Timberlake is reportedly already preparing for the challenging trek to the summit of Kili, which ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Mar 12th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Yesterday we posted an article with the top places to view penguins in the world. Here are five more amazing places to view wildlife from around the globe. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania The wide open grasslands of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania have one of the most impressive displays of wildlife that you could ever hope to see. Each year, one of the greatest natural spectacles on the ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Feb 26th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Last week we posted a story from CNN.com that named five places to see before climate changed altered them forever. The destinations that made their list included the Great Barrier Reef, the city of New Orleans, Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, the Alpine Glaciers in Switzerland, and the Amazon Rain Forest in Brazil. Here are five more amazing places that you should see before they are ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Jan 15th, 2009 at 8:30AM: The 2009 edition of the Tour d'Afrique got underway last Sunday, with cyclists setting out from Cairo, Egypt on a 7317 mile long race to Cape Town, South Africa. In between they'll pass through the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, and Namibia, fostering international goodwill along the way, while raising funds for environmental protection and promoting cycling in Africa. ...
by Iva Skoch (RSS feed) (5 years ago)
Mar 10th, 2008 at 1:30PM:
I know nothing about tribal cultures, but based on this photo, I would guess this man is a one of those wise, respected tribesmen. His face says it all.
Fiznatty, who took this photo in 2007 in Tanzania, says: "The Hadzabe tribe, made up of several wandering families such as the one we visited, is nomadic. They are hunters who follow their food, and have been living in the region for over ...
by Willy Volk (RSS feed) (6 years ago)
May 9th, 2007 at 5:32PM: Weirdness.
In contrast to reports of global wreaking havoc worldwide -- from Kiribati, to Greenland; from Costa Rica, to Siberia; from the US, to numerous other destinations -- a joint Austrian-U.S. research team is reporting that there's one place that isn't succumbing to global warming quite as fast as expected: Kilimanjaro.
After reviewing 7 years of measurements taken from weather stations ...
by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (7 years ago)
Mar 26th, 2006 at 11:04PM: Kilimanjaro is the largest free standing mountain in Africa and has the highest peak at 5,895 m. Located in Tanzania, an east African country bordering the Indian Ocean between Kenya and Mozambique, many a climber make the trip every year to drool at the base of the mountain in the Kilimanjaro National Park, preparing for the day their quest will begin and non-climbers give glimpse wishing they ...
by Erik Olsen (RSS feed) (7 years ago)
Dec 10th, 2005 at 5:53PM: Haven't posted too much about biking lately, and while I dug around a lot and found some good links, I did just want to alert folks to the New York Times' biking guide. Now, you may not think that the Times is exactly the kind of news source that's gonna have a lot to say about biking. You're probably right. But bear with me for a moment, and take a look at an article like this one, by Jeffrey ...
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