Trish and I lived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for four years between 1998 and 2002. We saw quite a few places within Tanzania, but also got to visit Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Malawi and South Africa for work and holidays.

Travel within Tanzania

Tanzania was a great place to live because there are so many different ecosystems and cultures within one country. Between trips for work and holidays to cool places like Mount Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar, Pemba, the Ngorongoro Crater, Gombe Stream National Park and Mwanza, we got to see a nice cross-section of the country.

Travel in the Region

Our work involved a number of regional meetings, which allowed us to visit a number of other cities and towns in the neighbouring countries.

A Few Photos

Our time in Tanzania was just before the advent digital photography, meaning that all of my photos from that time were shot on 35 mm film and then printed at the local photo lab in Dar es Salaam. I won’t even attempt to scan and import four years worth of photos, but below I’ll post a few that I can find on hand. Stay tuned.

But in the meantime, feel free to browse through four years of blog posts called A Swahili Lexicon: Words and stories from Tanzania, which include a few low-res photos via Word Documents to PDF. Very old school.