Palm Beach Hotel
Travel Blogs from Dar es Salaam
Ugh, so hot!
Well, I made it safe to Dar Es Salaam and splurged a bit on a hotel, mostly because I didn have a chance to do any hostel research before I got here. The flight from Shinyanga was fairly uneventful but the cab ride to the hotel wasn´t. I most definitely set the record for shortest time to a proposal, we weren´t even out of the airport parking lot …
Arusha to Dar
Sat Sept 3 Travel Arusha to Dar es Salaam pix: http://c-4-c.com/80days/Tanzania-MEDIA/ 09-03-05_Day10 I forgot to mention that when I stopped for last time to do internet, I saw Beatrice, the girl who's helped me each time. I had made a CD of "O SIFUNI MUNGU" (see lyrics online) & my own songs for her, & we'd exchanged emails. When I showed …
Adventure to Dar Es Salaam
... had never felt so relieved!!
We raced to our next flight and began our journey to Nairobi.
The Nairobi airport was horrible. It was hot, dirty, smelly, and old and literally had 1 café inside it. As we were leaving straight from the international side of the terminal where we had landed we had a problem with that our bags were on the other side of the visa desks!! Not knowing what to do and receiving the most ...
Sunrise Beach
... or badly pot holed. Not forgetting to mention that in true Kamikaze style , everyone overtakes on a solid line, makes a two lane road up to a 4 lane road depending on the width of the “vehicles” on the road at that specific time.
Never the less, we got to the Shoprite Dar with time to spare. Let me just stop here to say, we really don't know what we have in SA with all the shops and products we have ...
New Slate, New Job and a whole new Reality Check
... pay to a pet monkey or something; I am just something strange and different and amusing with my different looks, language, manners. I prefer to imagine the situation of me as the pet monkey instead of some superior and worship-able person.
It is a shame I cannot take photos of these places because it is too incredible to describe and the atmosphere is so different to the picture they paint of slums in advertising campaigns, books, TV etc. It is the little things that I come ...