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More on Tanzania: Dar Es Salaam
Sika | July 23, 2008
We returned to Dar and stayed in the same hotel we had stayed in earlier. It was a bit easier to navigate the restaurant next door to get even more cheap, yummy, local food. We all went to bed relatively early, what with the getting up before sane people get up the next morning.
And [...]
More on Tanzania: Back to Stone Town
Sika | July 23, 2008
We eventually returned to Stone Town for more shopping, although between running out of space in my pack (those spices take up a lot of room) and just being on general shopping overload, I only managed to buy, oh, about a gazillion more things. But I did it quickly, and then went back to Mercury’s [...]
More on Tanzania: Beach Bum Edition
Sika | July 23, 2008
If you’re starting to get the feeling that this vacation was all about tasting stuff, you’re wrong. It was also all about smelling stuff. And touching stuff. And looking at stuff. Zanzibar fully engages all the senses, which is probably why the holiday felt so much longer (in a good way) than it was.
Then to [...]
More on Tanzania: Stone Town
Sika | July 23, 2008
We arrived at Haven, having gotten off the van giving us a lift and walking a couple of minutes into the warren that is the vast majority of Stone Town. Haven is a sweet, funky place, with an insane staircase, one hot shower (there are 4 toilets altogether. 3 of them have showers in [...]
More on Tanzania: Arriving at Zanzibar
Sika | July 23, 2008
First off, it’s not pronounced TAN-za-nee-a. Or Tan-ZANE-ee-a. It is pronounced Tan-ZAHN-ee-a. This means, that in an effort to appear to be culturally sensitive I sometimes say one, sometimes say the other, sometimes say a weird amalgam of all three, and sometimes make noises I didn’t even know were humanly possible, although they certainly aren’t [...]
Reason #10 million to love ESCOM
Sika | July 22, 2008
Last saturday, sometime between 1 and 3am, our kitchen and cafeteria (called kef in Chichewa) burned up (not down, as the building is still intact). No one was hurt. ESCOM says that the reason why the kef burned up is that the kitchen staff forgot to turn off the outlets to the cooker or whatever*. [...]
Transport is hell (or, it takes a hospital and the army . . . )*
Sika | July 17, 2008
Carol arranged to have the ambulance** from Malosa take us to the airport. Our flight was at 3pm, and the airport is about 1½ hours away. Carol wanted to leave from David’s at 9 and Sarah wanted to leave at 11, so they compromised on leaving at 10am. When you do the math, this seems [...]
Journey to Spice Island
Sika | July 16, 2008
Zanzibar, besides being one of those exotic places of which you’re never quite sure of the location*, was known as the original Spice Island when the true source of the spices was still being kept secret. Anything named Spice Island is meant to evoke the fiery exoticism of Zanzibar. Zanzibar has been the center of [...]