TEC Kurasini Training & Conference Centre
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East Africa - Tanzania
Arrival into East Africa....
Wow what a difference from South Africa...as my friends have all stated, South Africa is not a good representation of Africa, more like a prep. I was amazed to see what they were referring too....night and day.
Departure from beautiful Cape Town airport and arrival into Dar es Salaam International airport was a reality check...the run down terminal was ...
Silver Sands
... was not safe. Not having much of an option we went there to take a look. Other than being completely dilapidated, it seemed fine. We were received with such enthusiasm with the familiar “Jambo! Karibu Sana” and were assured that they had security guards on duty. It is a fantastic spot and we were the only ones there. Camping right on the beach. They even arranged for us to have electricity. The fact that we were ...
Mshkaki with a side serving of Machete...
... exactly what I felt like. Gary felt like ugali so we walked up the beach to a little local restaurant rammed between the "Mzungu" resorts and had a shandy whilst Gary ate. It was then time to do some serious repacking of the car and by then we had earned a swim. It was beautiful in the water I do love swimming at the beach. We then showered and walked into the little village to find some food. We came across "African Dishes Restaurant" where the guy ...
Without vision a person perishes
So We caught the Tazara train from Dar es salaam which should have taken 40 hours arriving in Kapiri Mposhi, but what actually happened was a 56 hour train journey and the time of our lives (who would have guessed)
Firstly we had to buy second class, but we waited with the 3rd class people getting free cakes and drinking wired local drinks. We stood out , a lot, because we were the only ones not ...
PolyCARP n the Fish market (see what I did there!)
... was pretty unreal but at the same time exciting and ridiculous. Flies were everywhere, they made the floor in the 'kitchens' look speckled. A guy with blood over his overalls kept squeezing past the queue of people and dishing out food on metal divided plates, canteen-style. Polycarp had me try Chipsi Mayai, basically a chip omelette. They served up this thing in one of the metal portioned plates for us and Poly dumped a mountain of salt in one compartment for me and ...
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