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Sleeping In Paradise: My Relaxing “Small World”🌎Time at Seasons Lodge🛖🏚️, Pongwe, Zanzibar🇹🇿

Posted on July 28, 2025July 28, 2025 by Jonny Blair

“Though the oceans are wide and the mountains are high, it’s a small world after all” – Sherman Brothers. Seasons Lodge! Well this is just a wild one. Seasons Lodge is the place to be. But perhaps this time, this story is more phenomenal than the destination, and a crazier one than many that have Read more about Sleeping In Paradise: My Relaxing “Small World”🌎Time at Seasons Lodge🛖🏚️, Pongwe, Zanzibar🇹🇿[…]

Backpacking In Zanzibar: Staying At Bottoms Up Backpackers In Stone Town, Unguja Island

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Jonny Blair

“I ain’t got no time for no monkey business” – Freddie Mercury. After a horrific time trying to get out of The Maldives through India and Ethiopia, I never thought I’d actually make it to Zanzibar, which was supposed to be new country two on the Rainy Summertime tour. In the end, I had 6 Read more about Backpacking In Zanzibar: Staying At Bottoms Up Backpackers In Stone Town, Unguja Island[…]

Rainy Summertime: My July 2025 Dream To New Islands

Rainy🌧☔💦Summertime☀︎🌞: My July 2025 Writing✍️🧑🏻‍💻Dream To 4 New Islands🏝️

Posted on June 12, 2025June 13, 2025 by Jonny Blair

“Rainy Summertime” – Noel Gallagher. As the days, weeks, months and years go on, we start to run out of time in life and lose our ambitions and goals. I know that it won’t be possible for anyone to ever visit every country in the world that everyone recognises – I have counted 626 countries Read more about Rainy🌧☔💦Summertime☀︎🌞: My July 2025 Writing✍️🧑🏻‍💻Dream To 4 New Islands🏝️[…]

Backpacking in Tanzania: My Top 5 Moments

Posted on May 8, 2016May 19, 2016 by Jonny Blair

As I head to Senegal on a secret trip, it seems a lifetime ago that I was backpacking in Tanzania and Ethiopia. It was a trip of a lifetime where I got to feed hyenas mouth to mouth, at dusk, in Harar as well as 4-5 days of hardcore Tanzania safari in and around the Read more about Backpacking in Tanzania: My Top 5 Moments[…]

Safari in Tanzania: The Serengeti Day 1

Posted on July 6, 2015July 5, 2015 by Jonny Blair

I’ve lived out a lot of travel dreams in the past few years or so and haven’t got round to writing them all up, so here’s my report on our amazing safari experience in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. I’ll cover Day 1 first. The Serengeti is one of the most famous jungles and national Read more about Safari in Tanzania: The Serengeti Day 1[…]

Backpacking in Tanzania: A Trip to Oldupai Gorge

Posted on September 2, 2014August 30, 2014 by Jonny Blair

Somewhere in between the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater lies the Oldupai Gorge. It’s like a rock in the middle of nowhere. It’s like an eroded canyon!! After touring Arusha, Tarangire and the Serengeti with Shadows of Africa, we headed out to Oldupai. I’ll be honest and say I preferred Oldupai just as much as the Read more about Backpacking in Tanzania: A Trip to Oldupai Gorge[…]

Camping and Sleeping in the Serengeti, Tanzania

Posted on August 9, 2014August 8, 2014 by Jonny Blair

Obviously people talk about “bucket lists” and you might have read that I don’t like that term. However I’ve just ticked off “sleeping in the Serengeti” from my list of things I’ve done on my travels. Camping out is something I’m pretty accustomed too, having spent a few months in my tent while living in Read more about Camping and Sleeping in the Serengeti, Tanzania[…]

Dinner and Dancing with the Maasai Tribe in Osupuko Lodge, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

Posted on February 3, 2014September 23, 2017 by Jonny Blair

My African safari experience took me to three of the best national parks in Tanzania, including staying overnight in the totally ace Osupuko Lodge in Tarangire National Park. Our tour was expertly organised by Shadows of Africa – the best safari company on the continent and after a day of game driving in Tarangire National Read more about Dinner and Dancing with the Maasai Tribe in Osupuko Lodge, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania[…]

My Visit To Esa School in Arusha, Tanzania

Posted on November 17, 2013May 2, 2014 by Jonny Blair

When we travel, often the best moments are the most spontaneous. We get rewarded with moments to savour and real smiles. After an amazing four days of constant Game Driving Safari with Shadows of Africa (including Tarangire National Park), we headed to a local school for a visit. Together with our visit to the Kibowa Read more about My Visit To Esa School in Arusha, Tanzania[…]

My Top 5 Camping Memories!

Posted on September 26, 2013June 19, 2015 by Jonny Blair

As I celebrate the 10 year mark of being away from Northern Ireland by camping out in the desert at Wadi Rum with Rum Stars (AMAZING!), I thought it was a good time to share my top 5 camping moments from my travels…including my latest spot of desert camping, these moments were inspiring… 1. Camping Read more about My Top 5 Camping Memories![…]