Hubers go Africa

We have developed „plan B“ and decided to change our route: Instead of driving along the west side of Lake Victoria, across Lake Tanganyika and along the Congo border, we will travel east of Lake Victoria and through the classics Serengeti and Maasai Mara. Currently we are in Iringa, a former German military station in…

The quite expensive park fees (about 80 € p.P./day) we try to compensate with a long game drive. But it didn’t take long for the highlights: two pretty big lionesses. And unlike in Kruger Park there are not ten cars in front of them, but we are alone the whole time. However we got to…

„If you want to see people, go to the Serengeti. But if you want to see animals, drive to Ruaha National Park“, is the safari insiders‘ recommendation for Tanzania’s largest national park. We expect the loneliness of the African wilderness. And it is! However if you have been in the parks of Zambia and Zimbabwe…

And there is a very personal motive for being here in the Highlands: The Merck Family Foundation supports an orphanage, no, a children’s village – initiated and run by a couple who can look back on an impressive life’s work: Since 2005, Geoff and Vicky Fox have been constantly taking care of 50-80 orphans whose…

There are many reasons to draw a completely different picture of Africa in South Tanzania: A green region with mountains up to 3,000 meters high, with tea and coffee plantations, in a pleasant climate (the coldest and wettest in Tanzania) – without mosquitoes and without tsetse flies. And there are even clever electricians who not…

The romantic trout fishing camp no longer exists. Nevertheless it gets dark even today in the wild. But as there is always a village somewhere we are the main actors for about 70 children’s eyes who watch with excitement and awe how we set up table and chairs. After they have understood our question about…

Our first impression of Tanzania was rather discouraging. While we received the visa within 10 minutes, we were desperate with the papers for the cars: The electricity had collapsed, the PCs didn’t work and so the border crossing took almost five hours. And since we were the only Whites, everybody soon knew us. When Lore…