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Dar es Salaam - (Haven of Peace in Arabic)
... through water covered roads that may hide deep potholes and around Tanzanians who dart out into traffic in an effort to get out of the rain, often with little children
in tow. In conclusion, driving in Dar should be left to those with driving experience in developing countries. Having said that, I really wanted to experience driving, Farhan was kind enough to go out on a limb and let me drive one early morning, when traffic was basically ...
Masai jumping, lively church and lots of kiddies!
... year old girl called teddy who doesn't speak at all, had a raging temperature, and was quickly deteriorating to the point that she was floppy, her stomach felt like it was on fire and she was unable to hold herself up. We quickly found her mum and rushed her off to the hospital, luckily after a malaria test which came back negative and some food, water and some medication the dr told us she had a Urinery tract infection. Sadly, this easily treatable infection to you ...
I bless the rains down here in Zanzibar
... We bought a fresh seafood supper straight from a street side grill, it was exceptionally good. However our attempts at recreating it the next night were not quite of the same standard. Moreover the hotel owner was not too impressed when we smoked out the entire of the downstairs whilst cooking the fish.
We headed to one of Zanzibar's northern beaches - Kendwa. Mickey had been given the responsibility of booking us into 'Kendwa Rocks', THE place to ...
Day 23 and 24-Travel Day to Dar es Salaam
I am getting tired of sitting on this truck! It has been great to get a chance to go on so many game drives, however sometimes the long hours on the truck makes it difficult to look forward to the next one. We arrived at Dar es Salaam which is the capital of Tanzania early to allow us enough time to get through the traffic. If you think that there is a lot of traffic in San Francisco and Los Angeles you would be surprised. Dar es Salaam is a major ...
Travel Days are Bad Blog Days, Part 2 of 2
... passed with actually very little trouble aside from the money bit (what, Tanzania wants to let me come spend money and help their country? Who knew!?), I met the driver sent by Mr. Rashid to meet me at the airport. His name was Emmanuel and he spoke enough English to make the transition smooth and to understand that, although I wasn’t especially communicative, that was because I hadn’t eaten or drank in 8 hours and was coming off ...
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