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Tanzania - Zanzibar Flights
Are both flights within the tour on small planes? Have someone that is a little nervous about flying.
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British or someone who has taken this tour will need to confirm and it depends on what you mean by small planes. Based on what we flew on K&T they could be anything from a 12 passenger single engine turboprop Cessna Caravan, a 20 passenger, two engine turboprop de Havilland/Bombardier Twin Otter (DHC-6 referred to as Dash 6), the much larger, 50+ passenger, four engine turboprop Dash 7 or twin engine Dash 8. Google them to see the size. Here are a few shots I took on K&T. We saw or flew in the first 3 during K&T.
Smallest aircraft- Cessna Caravan in the background (Arusha, Tanzania Airport) (FYI, those are the Tauck duffels being loaded on the cart)
Caravan at Seronera Airstrip, Tanzania in the Serengeti
Twin Otter/Dash 6 at Ngerende airstrip in the Maasai Mara, Kenya
Yup, some of us have been lucky like that- best seat in the house! : ). Our pilot was from Portugal and young as well. I probably had more flight hours than he did! Since there really wasn't any air traffic control at our aircraft's low altitude (10K' MSL which was only 5K' or 6K' above the ground) and few other aircraft during our flight from Seronara air strip in the Serengeti to Arusha, and it was too noisy to converse with me, our pilot plugged his headset into an iPod and bopped along listening to tunes (and basically twiddled with stuff on the instrument panel just to keep busy.) He disconnected the iPod just a few minutes before landing so he could talk to the Arusha control tower!