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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 27 Nungwi Beach, Zanzibar

    Monday 18 December 2017. Photos.
    Highlights: Local shopping, walking on the beach

    A full relaxing day on the beach and at the resort. After breakfast I went out shopping with Tera at some different local curio shops. While I hadn’t been expecting to buy anything I did end up getting a small lion for Indie back home given I’d seen a photo of her with Christmas present yesterday. I just couldn’t help myself.

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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 26 Stone Town to Nungwi Beach, Zanzibar

    Sunday 17 December 2017. Photos.
    Highlights: Swimming in Indian Ocean, Curio Shopping

    I nice leisurely day sleeping in and enjoying the included breakfast on the hotel’s rooftop was a great way to ease into the day. We did have to leave until 10 am to go to Nungwi in the north of the island. For this trip extension Roz, Arran, Emilie, Logan and Tera were joining me along with Kapalia. Young Jessica was going to join us as well but pulled out.

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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 25 Dar Es Salaam to Stone Town, Zanzibar

    Saturday 16 December 2017. Photos.
    Highlights: Water crossing, Spice Farm Tour, Slave Market, The Old Fort, Sunset, Night Market

    A huge day overall that started with us leaving camp at 5 am after a 4 am wake up. Even at 4 am in the morning it was extremely humid and I was glad I only had a daypack to carry during the morning. Our truck drop us off after a 15 minute ride from there we caught a small ferry across to Dar Es Salam proper followed by a bus to the main port terminal and then eventually we got on the main ferry that took just less than 2 hours to travel to Zanzibar.

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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 24 Tanga to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

    Friday 15 December 2017. Photos.
    Highlights: Dar Es Salam Beach

    Today was an extremely long travel day. We had to be packed, have breakfast and be gone by 6 am. I noticed that Bill had overslept and Arran and myself helped bring down his tent. We also made and packed our lunch before leaving as we wouldn’t be stopping for lunch today. We had to try and beat the worse of the Dar Es Salam traffic later in the day.

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  • Africa Trip 2017-18: Day 23 Arusha to Tanga, Tanzania

    Thursday 14 December 2017. Photos
    Highlights: The Long Hot Drive

    Today was an extremely long and hot travel day to get us closer to Dar Es Salaam tomorrow in reasonable time. We also had two new members join the group, Mark and Thais. The travelling wasn’t made easier when one of our travel members Maggie had her only credit card ‘eaten’ by the ATM machine at the Arusha Shopping Mall. The card was eaten due to ‘time inactivity’ according to the notification slip but I wasn’t there.

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