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Museum, Natural history museum
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Tanzanian capital
... to switch planes. It takes an incredible amount of effort to make things work here. Another day, I went to the National Museum where they house fossils and footprints from the Oldupai Gorge. I actually saw the site earlier on safari. ...
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Sorry, we're full
... then probably you will not have our problems. The Germans didn't seem to. For our second day in Dar, we wandered up to the National Museum to see the Olduvai Gorge fossils. The Germans made a run for Zanzibar. We thought, why ...
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Africa for you..
... in a wall of the earth and saw the skeleton of a pilgrim who died there. Also unrestricted access but I didn't touch that one. Dar Es Salaam is a city hard to describe. There is such a mix of older worlds and customs. There are a lot of Muslims here. ...
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Street cleaners, work update and more crows
... working for different NGO's -- so the conversations have been really interesting. I've done lots more shopping, went to the national museum and visited all the local markets for veggies and fruit. I also found a really good seamstress and I ...
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Good old dusty roads
... to get up in case. Decided I'd have a lie in, and then go into town to use the internet again and visit the national museum that was supposed to be really good and should visit since hadn't yet visited any museum since leaving England. Devota and ...
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Dar es Salaam - I saw the President of Tanzania!
I will try to get as much of today in as possible, but I am really tired, so I imagine I will finish about Dar es Salaam in the morning when I am more refreshed. Let's start with travel to Dar yesterday afternoon. We left Bagamoyo around 2 and ...
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DAR ES SALAAM
Finishing off a couple of days in this sprawling city on the coast. Did a lot of walking, visited the National Museum, discovered the German influence pre-World War 1, the British involvement after, and independence in the 1960's. Visited the ...
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WORDS AND IMAGES: Painting the possibilities
... "you can find local people that like paintings and it's not just the tourists," he says. It's what he hopes for Dar es Salaam-a resurgence of a once vibrant art community. The grounds of the National Museum will host a new Belgian-funded gallery in a ...
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Big Jump to Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro (Arusha)
... (Sorry! for the ones who don't know what I am refering to here) by leaving Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe to go to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania through Johannesburg, South Africa. Believe it or not it was just the easiest and most cost effective way of doing ...
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The Real Adventure Begins
... awoke this morning at 5:15 to the haunting call to prayer of the muezzin. There is a large Muslim population here in Dar es Salaam, as its Arabic-derived name, "Palace of Peace", implies. The bustle on the street below did not take long to ...
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