Dubai Days 8-10

Last last few days in Dubai were a bit of a waiting game for our Tanzania visas to be approved. We were also trying to go easy on the spending as we were feeling the pinch from Greece, the Maldives &もっと詳しく
Last last few days in Dubai were a bit of a waiting game for our Tanzania visas to be approved. We were also trying to go easy on the spending as we were feeling the pinch from Greece, the Maldives &もっと詳しく
Our flight to Tanzania was with Fly Dubai, the budget carrier for the UAE. It took 5 hours to get to Zanzibar and a further 20 minutes to Dar Es Salaam. The funny part was that the connection inもっと詳しく
Our second day started with exploring the local area. We headed to slipway mall which had a traditional market, boutique shops and a beach front promenade with restaurants. We haggled (badly) for someもっと詳しく
This morning we were up and out of the hostel early and on our way to Village Museum before 9am. The museum had all the different kinds of tribal huts and our tour guide explained how each was builtもっと詳しく
We set off this morning for Bongoyo Island which was around an hours boat ride from Dar Es Salaam. There were only 5 of us on the boat so we had the island to ourselves. The food options were lobsterもっと詳しく
Our final day in Dar (as the locals call it) started with some boring admin (washing) so we went to the laundromat to get everything sorted.
We decided to find a golf course whilst we waited. Havingもっと詳しく
Straight to the airport this morning for a quick 1 hour flight to Kilimanjaro! The smoothest airport transtition yet with no queues for anything and walking straight through security onto the plane!もっと詳しく
We booked a day tour with Toni and his friend Penwell and the first stop was the Kilimanjaro base camp.
We had a guided tour and learned that the mountain was over 5,800m high and that there wereもっと詳しく
Second stop of the day trip to Ngoro Waterfall.
We hiked down what seemed like thousands of steps to the beautiful waterfall with Tony and a local guide. We were given bamboo sticks for walkingもっと詳しく
After the waterfalls we stopped off at a coffee making place which also had old caves used by the Chagga tribes to hide from the Massai hundreds of years ago!
The story of the discovery of coffee wasもっと詳しく