by Kelvin | Sep 22, 2026 | trip-to-tanzania
Not everything sold as African handmade crafts along a tourist route is actually made by hand, or made locally at all. A fair amount of what fills souvenir shelves near safari parks is imported and stamped with a "local" label because that's what sells. Telling the...
by Kelvin | Sep 19, 2026 | trip-to-tanzania
I've lost count of how many times I've watched someone stop dead in front of a canvas at African Galleria, lean in, and ask the same question. Who painted this? The crafts get the same reaction. Someone picks up a carved bowl, turns it over, feels the weight of it,...
by Kelvin | Sep 17, 2026 | trip-to-tanzania
Buy African paintings from the wrong stop on a safari route and you'll come home with something mass-produced, painted from a template rather than an idea, and priced as if it were original. Buy from the right one and you leave with a piece that actually has a story...
by Kelvin | Sep 14, 2026 | tanzanite-jewelry
Here's the question we get asked most at the jewellery counter: why bother with tanzanite gem tours at all, when you could just buy the finished ring and skip the half-day out to Merelani? It's a fair question. The honest answer is that a tour and a shop purchase...
by Kelvin | Sep 12, 2026 | trip-to-tanzania
Search for local Tanzanian tours while you're planning a Northern Circuit trip and you'll mostly get one shape of result: a half-day city tour, usually built around Arusha, that swings past a market, a clock tower and a heritage centre before dropping you back at your...
