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Zanzibar Island....Paradise??!
Zanzibar....WOW! We took the fast ferry 2 hours across the waters from Dar Es Salaam where we had stayed the night previous, to be whooshed across the sea to an island which is still Tanzania and still very much Africa, but with a bizarre feeling, Imagine if you can Africa combined with the Middle East...Muezzin sounding loudly at prayer time, …
Dar Es Salaam
Arrived in Arusha after a very long drive from Nairobi. Arusha is quite scary. People try to sell you stuff everywhere and are much more aggressive than in Nairobi. We didnt stay in the city long though It was much hotter and more humid than in Kenya. We stayed at the Messani Snake Camp site, where they have a snake enclosure with lots of different …
Adventure to Dar Es Salaam
... realizing I’d left my passport on the plane in the seat pocket! I felt helpless! I couldn’t go back to the gate as the plane had landed in the middle of the tarmac and we had to get a bus from the plane to the gates. Freaking out, I got a man at the baggage counter to call somebody to go check. The minutes seemed like hours and after copping a spray from Jack I saw a lady walking towards me with my beautiful navy blue ...
Sunrise Beach
Sunrise Beach (Second time around)
Driving in Dar Es Salaam is a nightmare. Like Carlos says, "you just have to “throw the car in and don't make eye contact", even if it means in front of the buses, otherwise you will not move an inch. Traffic comprises of so many different kinds of wheeled things, other than the norm. This means you need extra eyes and ears to navigate through these streets. Which, for the most part, is ...
New Slate, New Job and a whole new Reality Check
... is one of those things I had come across plenty when I volunteered in Kenya two years ago at a school. It is ridiculous but it is harmless and I have no problem with their curiosity. What I do find upsetting is how in awe they are of a white person and sometimes they express huge admiration and love to you and you know it can be for no quality but the colour of your skin. I wish I could tell them to not think that way. But at the same time I think maybe it is the same affection ...