Once again I've stumbled into a spot that has relatively efficient high speed internet... for now. So I've put up three new posts covering the Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater (read below).
We've grown a little tired of game drives - and particularly of the "free African Massage" roads. How many days in a row can one survive the continuous bump, shake, rattle, jostle, bounce and whip side-to-side of really bad roads? It would be fun for 15 minutes as an amusement park ride, but imagine 7 hours a day, 8 days in a row.
So the Pongwe Beach Hotel on Zanzibar has come just in time. White sand, turquoise water, amazing meals and an almost cooling breeze from off the ocean. Just to give you a taste, here's a photo of our cabin, only a few feet from high tide, and another shot of the beach at sunrise - taken from our terrace. 
When the tide is low, the waves break on a reef several hundred meters off shore, and the loudest noise is the clacking of the palm fronds in the gentle breeze.
However, when the tide is high (at 4am) it pounds against the black coral rock and thumps hard on the beach, and sounds like giants moving heavy furniture upstairs.
I'll get used to it!
Tomorrow, we move across the island to the Old Stone Town for one night before heading back to Nairobi.
