After the long flight via Qatar we arrived in Dar es Salaam airport at 14.05, got our visa (which was surprisingly easy to do), our bags (which actually arrived...phew!) and were out by about 2.30pm. Sadly our taxi was not due to pick us up until 3pm which meant 30 minutes of turning down the seemingly hundreds of taxi drivers and kind of hiding in the corner of the outdoors airport to try and avoid them. Our Taxi driver recommended that we stayed in the TEC, a catholic hostel just outside of town... it is nice (if run by the catholics :p) and clean and has a restaurant and bar. The food last night was pretty average..rice and chicken and fish. The chicken was a wing and so there was really more bone than chicken (and the thing I least like to do is cut chicken off bone!) but I think that is going to be the standard diet from now on! Today we ventered into Dar es Salaam, which is smaller than I had imagined... and does not have that much to do in it. We got captured by a 'guide' who didn't tell us he was a guide (even though we strongly suspected he would want money) and we couldn't really get away SO we went to the fish market with him (which was actually kind of helpful because it was only locals and we stuck out like a sore thumb!) and then managed to escape later only 30,000 worse off (which feels like a complete rip-off but he just wouldn't leave us alone...and is only 15 pounds)
We pretty much walked around the whole city and so tomorrow we are not sure what we are going to do...there is a national museum which has the nutcracker man skull in it, the dawning of ancient man.
The one important thing we have achieved today is to learn bodyparts in swahili....not particularly useful for this part of the journey but I am sure will help immensely later on.
Byebye for now
Salx
