African Safari Adventures Blog

I love to paint baobabs in Africa – am always up for it! I find them so inspiring, like upside down trees in the dry season – but a magical mass of fresh green in the rains.

I thought it would be fun to share my most recent paintings of Baobabs in the Ruaha National Park, Tanzania:

 Oil pigme...

What could be nicer than a stay in paradise after a good Tanzanian safari!
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 Me second from lhs, my brother Michael on the right, together with little friends in 1952

Being lucky enough to grow up in Tanzania - Tanganyika Territory as it was in those days - I thought I'd share a few photos from my childhood. We lived in Dodoma, where my father worked for the Geologi...

Doing the right thing by them, whether they like it or not!

Story and photos by Dom Oldridge, while staying as a guest at Lake Manze camp in the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania.
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By 9:30 am in mid-October in the Selous Game Reserve...

 The Dodoma Hotel - pre 1947

Though I was born in Tabora, I was brought up in Dodoma  and we were often at the Dodoma Hotel.  My father is a terrific raconteur and this is what he writes about the hotel as he knew it:

  “At one time Dodoma had been rail head when the Germans were buildin...