Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Travel Blogs

The Prosper Connection and the Haven of Peace
Apr 6, 2006

... d.j. equipment when we got to talking about reggae. It turned out that he was a Chagga brother from Dar es Salaam. I told him about my first trip to Tanzania and how I planned to visit the Chagga again very soon. He graciously gave me his cell number and ...

Dar es Salaam - the people
Dec 8, 2002

... doctor. Mob justice may seem like a step back in time - like a few centuries. In Dar es Salaam, the most progressive and Westernized city in Tanzania, the government is trying to educate its people that AIDS can be prevented because it has a medical ...

Dar es Salaam - the city
Dec 8, 2002 (10 photos)

... email ready to send when the computer crashed. A half hour later it happened again!!! I was fuming.... Our whole quadrant of Dar had a blackout. Apparently this is 3rd world charm. I'm still assimilating. It's very strange to say the least. When I ...

More Salaam
Apr 7, 2006 (10 photos)

... fruit that grows from the stem of a tree that you can eat or squeeze vinegar out of!). I should mention that in Dar es Salaam people eat habanero-scotch bonnet like peppers when their green. They're a bit milder but still have that smokey-hot flavor. ...

Mtae to Dar es Salaam - Don't miss the bus
Mar 10, 2006 (1 photos)

... hostel IŽd eaten in with the 3 Danes a few evenings previously. After some rest and relaxation, book reading, ticket booking for Dar es Salaam, I had a nice stroll up to Irente viewpoint. On the way up I stopped at Irente Farm for lunch. Bread, jam, ...

Back to Dar
Mar 18, 2006 (5 photos)

... , Namibia was one of my top 3 destinations I wanted to visit before I'd left Boston. Picked up my luggage for the 4pm ferry back to Dar for what was a pleasant trip. I thought I'd mix it up a bit and try out the YWCA this time. It turned out to be a ...

Zanzibar days.....Ticket madness
Apr 2, 2005 (21 photos)

... 11th hour after trying in Arusha, Dar, Zanzibar and Mombasa. Nitty Gritty: We had prebooked our tickets for the 4pm ferry from Dar-es-Salaam to Zanzibar where we hoped to rest up at a beach, dive, and seek out the ghost of Freddie Mercury... After we ...

Hanging around at the station
Jul 20, 2005 (1 photos)

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Addis in Dar
Jul 30, 2005 (2 photos)

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To the coast
Jul 19, 2005

Arusha - Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam Again
Dec 16, 2006

... .  We passed through a multi-cultural side of the city that was eye opening.  There are three million residents in Dar es Salaam with an eclectic mix of Arabic, Indian, African and Swahili origins.  I was happy that I had returned to the ...

Lusaka to Dar es Salaam
Dec 5, 2006 (5 photos)

... us from the compartment jumped into a Daladala (a minibus taxi) and headed for Kiriakoo - a derelict slum on the west side of Dar es Salaam. The weather was hot and humid, almost unbearable.  My t-shirt became a wet rag and I had to wring it out. ...

Much easier on the way back
May 28, 2007 (14 photos)

... -planned housing - basically, slums.  In a recent survey of two-hundred non-Tanzanians who thought Tanzania's capital city was Dar es Salaam, one-hundred percent were unaware that the capital is actually Dodoma, the boring inland administrative town. ...

Salaam Dar es Salaam
Aug 16, 2006

... journey'. I ditched the bus at a large town and took a far better bus with a far better company to complete my journey to Dar es Salaam. And I arrived just after it got dark, which peeved me off again. A lot of people don't like Dar, but I found it ...

Back to Dar
Jul 28, 2005 (5 photos)

Pemba - Dar

News of luggage..... and the Tazara train to catch
Nov 16, 2007 (3 photos)

... of the worst places in the world currently for malaria! This train trip is called the Tazara Railway and travels from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia. One never knows how long the trip is going to take as it is famous for ...

Good bye Dar
Dec 9, 2007 (2 photos)

Good God. Christmas has happened in Dar es Salaam airport. A squiggly old Christmas tree playing a jingly 'Jingle Bells' has been placed next to the security desk and one of the only remaining seats in the departures lounge, designed to make people want to ...

Sleepless in Serengeti.....campsite lion taming...
Mar 24, 2005 (11 photos)

... After saying sad goodbyes to our guys we had a shower (luxury) and a good sleep in Arusha before getting a bus to Dar-es-Salaam...where we visited a craft market and paid our first of many visits to Kenya Airways in an attempt to recover our stolen tickets ...

Sorry, we're full
Aug 7, 2008

... to do this, and we usually avoid it now that we're seasoned travellers and all.  The bus station in Dar es Salaam is a mazillion (8) kilometers away from anywhere anyone wants to be, and trying to figure out public transport to somewhere in ...

Tanzania is Stripey!!!
Jul 18, 2003 (6 photos)

Hello, We are currently in a little resort called Silver Sands, a short distance up the coast from Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. The sun is shining and we have reached the warm weather again, thankfully. The beach is quiet and we are enjoying the ...

Harry Potter!
Jul 30, 2005 (3 photos)

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Izzie the ditz
Jul 31, 2005 (1 photos)

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Security don't like water - internationally
Nov 26, 2007 (5 photos)

... my bags were going straight through to Kilimanjaro, I was not surprised to find them sitting in the middle of the floor of Dar es Salaam airport. It's the usual story - don't trust the airline check-in staff. They just want to see you leave - the rest is ...

Dar es Salaam
Jul 17, 2008

To be cont.......

The journey south
Aug 13, 2008

Tomorrow we head south to Malawi, but I just wanted to leave a short message about Internet. The Internet in Malawi seems to be either non-existent or very expensive (up to $10 an hour).  So we probably won't be using it, and we most likely wouldn ...

Dar es Salaam
May 20, 2008

... time there was no champers, business class lounge, goodies to eat, free goodies bag on the plane, nothing. : ( We arrived at Dar es Salaam 5 and a half hours later and joined the random hit and miss type of queue/scrum for the visa counter. $50 per person ...

It began in Africa ca ca ca ca
Sep 24, 2008 (4 photos)

Dar es Salaam in the late 1930s This was my first glimpse of Dar es Salaam... a vast rippling blue-black lagoon and all around the rim of the lagoon there were pale-yellow sandy beaches almost white, and breakers were running up on to the sand, and ...

Detained in Kenya - Dolly'd in Dar
Dec 22, 2003

... from Rwanda to Tanzania, and try and get to Mwanza, from where we were booked on a train for the 72 hour trip to Dar es Salaam. I was looking forward to the train ride, as it crosses central Tanzania and I was interested to see more of the county I was ...

Africa Hot
Jun 19, 2006

... to book a bus out to Moshi to climb Kiliminjaro and do a Seringetti Safari trip. After that, it's back down to Dar Es Salaam and the beaches of Zanzibar. If computers were slow in India they positivly creap here so photo updates are going to suffer for ...

To Dar Es Salaam
Jun 1, 2008 (4 photos)

... much bicer thyan the Tanga bus. Similar to a standard Coach in the US. It took about 7 and 1/2 hours to get to Dar Es Salaam, where we passed through lovely scenary of mountains and farms. Instead of getting off at the bus Station in Dar, we opted to get ...