Dar es Salaam Resorts - Reviews and Rates

This was our last day together for six weeks. Paul went home from Paris to Eagan. I went on to Tanzania to teach project management seminars to finalist students at Tumaini University in Iringa, Tanzania. I arrived at Dar es Salaam on Sunday, May 10th at midnight. We were scheduled in earlier from Nairobi, but another plane had mechanical proble...

We had another really rough crossing back to the mainland - never again! I thought being a cornish girl , who has spent many a day on the sea with my Dad I would be fine - but nope looks like as well as bus sick, car sick and plane sick I get sea sick too - great traveller eh. Surprised that I have lasted so long... and the sea sickness tablets ...

Good flight. Kept giving us lots of food. Delayed at Kilimanjero because the luggage laoder broke down. Locals got it working eventually. Pity it was dark as I would have liked to see the mountain. Arrived Dar es salaam around midnight. Met by a representative from the parliament and taken to the vip lounge. So far everything had gone pretty smo...

Today was a big day!!!!! I finally braved the public transportation system after being here a month. I have used buses and taxis to go long distances, but I hadn't really delved into the transportation the locals use on an everyday basis. I had never really needed to and did not have much of a desire to because it's pretty overwhelming. Well the...

Hey there so since I left you all off I was returning from a great weekend adventure, as fun as it was I did not get nearly enoguh sleep to prepare me for the tough week of work starting on 12March. I spent all day on Monday working on my presentation for the Wold Bank meeting which we invited all the local municipal governement health, sanitati...

There were tears in our eyes leaving Kenya. We had had a great time there, with good food, safaris and most of all lots of sausages. This departure also spelled the end of our 'independent' traveller part of our trip. Yes, we took our seats on the big yellow truck that is to be our home for the next 7 weeks. There are 15 other people on the truc...