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Behind The Scenes #3 -Expedition Africa on History Channel

admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:22:59 -0400

Expedition Africa

admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:41:50 -0400

Expedition Africa is an eight-part reality television series produced by Mark Burnett and airing on The History Channel. The series follows four modern day explorers - a navigator, a wildlife expert, a survivalist, and a journalist - as they substantially retrace H.M. Stanley's famed expedition to find Dr. David Livingstone. Their route deviates somewhat from Stanley's in that it includes a treacherous crossing of the Uluguru Mountains, which Stanley circumvented. Additionally, whereas Stanley took roughly 8 months to find Livingstone, the explorers on the show have 30 days to complete the 970-mile journey deep into the interior of Tanzania.

Moshi Tours & Sightseeing Excursions

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:33:35 -0400

Explore Moshi with a little help. Browse our Moshi tours listings for a range of exciting sightseeing trips and excursions. We list independent tour operators who offer everything from a simple guided city bus tour to escorted adventure treks

1 day - From your hotel to Kilimanjaro/ Marangu gate
You will leave your hotel/ lodge about 2:30AM after breakfast, then drive to Marangu entrance gate for payments. After check up with park officers, start your walking toward north-west side to Mandara huts. On your way to Mandara, take as many pictures as you can so that you may have memorable trip. Towered eucalyptus, thick rain forests and water streams will give fantastic air condition while you watch blue monkey, white and black colobus, horn bills and many other animals. You will stop for lunch and then go back to gate, catch your vehicle and drive to green hostels for camping.

Mount Kilimanjaro as Seen from Moshi Town

Studying Hemingway in Tanzania

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:14:02 -0400

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most well known writers in the world. However, not many people know about his lifelong fascination with Africa.

For years I knew about Hemingway, having read some of his works, but in the summer of 2002, I fell under Hemingway's spell. That summer, I helped lead a large group of American students, their parents, and teachers on safari in some of the game parks of northern Tanzania: Ngorongoro, Serengeti, and Tarangire. The safari was organized by Thomson Safaris, http://www.thomsonsafaris.com, and my role was to incorporate folklore into the experience.

As I prepared for this trip, I decided to take Hemingway's African stories with me. I could not have made a better choice, as I wrote in a Tanzanian newspaper afterwards...

Cookery Book the Tanzanian Way (1993)

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:41:40 -0400

This book's objective is to make life (and what is life without food!) a little more interesting in the kitchen and on the table. Of course, there are many variations and a lot of the time it is enjoyable to just experiment with what you have in the cupboard.

BBC Planet Earth (2006) (11 Eps)

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:19:31 -0400

Experience Earth as never before with groundbreaking footage of our planet and its wildlife. The most ambitious factual series ever commissioned by the BBC and a breathtaking exploration of our world.

Cheetah (1989)

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:37:45 -0400

An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free.

However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to race it against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue the cheetah.

Baraka (1992)

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:25:42 -0400

The word Baraka means "blessing" in several languages; watching this film, the viewer is blessed with a dazzling barrage of images that transcend language.

Filmed in 24 countries and set to an ever-changing global soundtrack, the movie draws some surprising connections between various peoples and the spaces they inhabit, whether that space is a lonely mountaintop or a crowded cigarette factory...

Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:15:12 -0400

Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 film which tells the true-life story of naturalist Dian Fossey and her work in Rwanda with Mountain Gorillas. The screenplay was adapted by Anna Hamilton Phelan from articles by Alex Shoumatoff and Harold T. P. Hayes and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre. The movie was directed by Michael Apted and the cinematography was by John Seale.

A Kentucky woman, Dian Fossey, is inspired by an anthropologist Louis Leakey to devote her life to the study of primates. Travelling into deepest Africa, Fossey becomes fascinated with the lives and habits of the rare mountain gorillas of the Rwandan jungle...

To Walk with Lions (1999)

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:59:53 -0400

To Walk With Lions is a good movie if you really like watching Richard Harris.
Richard Harris, John Michie, Kerry Fox, Ian Bannen, Hugh Quarshie do a great job supporting, too.

If you haven't heard of To Walk With Lions, here's a quick plot:

Together with his young assistant Tony Fitzjohn, Adamson battles to keep the animals on his game reserve "Kora" from dangerous poachers and deadly "shifta" warriors who are determinded to destroy rhinos and elephants for their tusks, and lions for their rich pelts. Academy Award Nominee Richard Harris of Gladiator and Harry Potter and The Sorcerer�s Stone takes you to the wilds of Africa in an inspirational story about one man�s magnificent crusade.