Day 18: Zanzibar to Dubai

Quick hotel breakfast before the 1-hour coach ride to Zanzibar airport. I amused myself by noticing all the English football paraphernalia present amongst the locals. Even our minibus had a small Robin van Persie shirt, Chelsea crest and Barca crest dangling from the mirror.

Zanzibar airport was just sheer bedlam - three big European planes were leaving about the same time so it was very crowded and hot. Bumped into Tom and Sarka - they'd loved their safari and Zanzibar, though were having difficulties getting back to Brno. Mostly because one of their flights was brought forward 12 hours with only an email update to show for it. They were on our plane to Dar, then going to Moshi, then Ethiopia, then Europe. I think.

Our final Precision Air flight passed incident-free; I guess they're a better airline than I realised! Dar airport was its usual hot, dirty self. Managed to kill 3 hours transfer time in the airport by visiting the cafe, reading and writing. The flight to DUbai was smooth and we arrived at our hotel around 12:30am.Read more