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27/05/2024

In Zanzibar, modesty is the cultural norm and the expectation. HOWEVER.

Apologies to Zanzibar, but we have a brand to maintain. 😎

Love y’all.

26/05/2024

Zanzibar, we've got some feelings... 🤔👇🏻

Stone Town is great. Vibrant and wildly different. An experience I'm glad I had.

The rest of the island? Honestly........ I'm not sure it's worth the trouble if you're not coming during peak tourism season. The good is nothing you can't get in dozens of different locales, and is pretty heavily outweighed by the less than stellar. (Constant hassles with police, many closed establishments, the ones open undergoing maintenance, hotels with reduced amenities, etc).

This stands in stark contrast to mainland Tanzania, where the late spring shoulder season seems to us like the absolute best time to visit. So if you take that advice, just be prepared for what the east coast of Zanzibar does and doesn't offer this time of year.

A large part of our issues stemmed from our decision to self drive, of course. A taxi from Stone Town to the coast is about $50 USD, so in just two trips, you're hitting what we paid for 4 days with our own vehicle. Renting gave us flexibility and the ability to escape the confines of our hotel, but came at the aforementioned cost of constant police stops asking for bribes to "solve our problem" of needing to drive to Stone Town to pay a fine for a mysterious law that we've unknowingly broken.

If we'd taken taxis, paid more, and had less ability to move from place to place, we'd have been fine, I guess? But that would also have been restrictive and frustrating - especially since the food at our accommodation was ridiculously priced. Lose lose, Zanzibar.

At the end of the day, if you're looking for an island getaway, there are better and cheaper options all across the globe that come with fewer challenges and complications. And if you're doing Tanzania in the shoulder season, which we DEFINITELY recommend, you can skip the Zanzibar add-on, unless, again you're ready for what you're getting into. Probably better to just take a jaunt down to the coastal capital of Tanzania, Dar Es Salaam, if you're looking for a post-safari vibe shift.

Love y'all

22/05/2024

The Serengeti really rolled out the red carpet for our departure this morning. So much to share!

When you put good out, you get good back. That's , y'all!

20/05/2024

IT'S SERENGETI DAY, YALL!

Spoiler: it's as insane as you've imagined.

18/05/2024

When should you visit Tanzania? Tap the photo to find out. But here's a hint: Probably not when everybody else does... 🕵️

16/05/2024

It started raining, we happen to be in Africa... so we did the thing.

Yer welcome.

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Andrew and James here! The two of us met off the coast of Hawaii while working as cruise ship singers. Yep - you read that right - and I think you'll find there's a LOT more where that came from!

Now, we travel the world together in various states of (un)dress while trying to prove that the antidote to fear is experience. The world seems scary these days. And we're betting it isn't.

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