So often we focus our attention to wildlife when we talk about an African Safari, especially to a destination like Tanzania where the wildlife is so amazing, but the truth is there is so much more to experience. Food, art and history for example, yet all meaningless without considering the most important resource of any destination – its people.

This is the 6th largest National Park in Tanzania (about 2,600 square kilometers) and is well known for large elephant herds. The name comes from the Tarangire River which runs through the park and provides a source of water vitally important especially in the dry season. There are also a number of swamps located throughout the park, more in the south, which dry into green plains making for stunning photographic scenes.

During the past few weeks I have often been asked my opinion about traveling in today’s world; if I would travel, when travel will resume, etc. If, like me, you are getting the itch and feeling ready to plan an overseas adventure for 2021 or 2022 – possibly even for the end of this year – the question becomes To Travel, or Not To Travel. For me the answer is an emphatic ‘YES - Travel!’.

On our recent trip to East Africa, we visited Pemba Island.  Pemba Island is part of Tanzania’s Zanzibar Archipelago and is the most northerly island in the chain. The Pemba Channel, with its coral reefs and abundant marine life, separates the island from mainland Tanzania and offers what is considered some of the best scuba diving and snorkeling off Africa’s east coast.

This past May wasn’t my first or even my second visit to Vanuatu, but my fourth. “Where”?  will be the first thing people ask when I tell them where I’ve been. Vanuatu is a small South Pacific island nation, roughly located in between Australia and Fiji. It is an archipelago of 82 islands; most of which are inaccessible to tourism.