… waiting for the permits… Pongwe Zanzibar Tanzania Christmas 2012

Mkomazi National Park Tanzania December 2012

… Somewhere in Nowhere…Close to Mkomazi Pare District Tanzania December 2012 ‘Maasai Women with their children’

… on the way to Ngorongoro Crater….. Tanzania December 2012

Shagayu Rain Forest Mtae Lushoto West Usambara Mountains Eastern Arch Mountain Range Tanzania December 2012 … last most eastern remaining Rain Forest Reserve. unfortunately, still far from being protected…

Mambo West Usambara Mountains Eastern Arch Mountain Range Tanzania December 2012 Dancing & singing to the rhythm of the drums

Change over time West Usambara Mountains Eastern Arch Mountain Range Tanzania December 2012 Someone told me when he was young still elephants, giraffes and many other animals were roaming through the forest… … only forty years ago…….

usambara

people everywhere… the Wasambaa especially children. let me give you one example: the tiny village Mambo has 5000 inhabitants… 2000 of those go to Primary School (6-14 years old). often i am surrounded by kids. with their big curious eyes. starring at me. wondering what this mzungu is doing… certainly, this high population density has […]

Mambo Mtae Lushoto West Usambara Mountains Eastern Arch Moutain Range Tanzania December 2012

Mambo Mtae West Usambara Mountains Eastern Arch Mountain Range December 2012 … constantly in and out of the clouds. for the stonechats – to sing or not to sing???

Nyumbani @ Mambo Mtae West Usambara Mountains Eastern Arch Mountain Range December 2012 Certainly one of the most special homes on my trip – directly on the cliff of the Usambara Mountains viewing over the Mkomazi National Park plains, Mount Kilimanjaro and Pare Mountains

Mombo Tanga Tanzania December 2012 breakfast @ mombo. a busy junction town on the foot of the West Usambara Mountains half way between Arusha and Dar es Salaam

South Pare Mountains Eastern Arch Mountain Range Tanzania December 2012 One of the nice things to do??? helping turtles to cross the road…

south pare mountains

most remarkable for the Pare Mountains? stunning sunsets tremendously beautiful people and the steepness of the hills. to reach the territories of the stonechats was quite a hike… up and down… and another climb up & down and back up again… but i honestly really like such environments. what i have seen so far of […]

Tae South Pare Mountains Eastern Arch Mountain Range Tanzania December 2012

South Pare Mountains Eastern Arch Mountain Range Tanzania December 2012

Monduli Tanzania December 2012

monduli

… we came back to our first study site… it is amazing how everything changed here within days!! IT’S GREEN!!!!!!! unexpectedly lush everything is planted… I am always fascinated how the farmers till their fields – just with their bare hands and some old self made little tools… it takes days and days. however, sometimes […]

Korongo Monduli Tanzania December 2012 ‘finally green…’