Woke up before the alarm and got up slowly and quick shower, final stretching of the bag to get all our stuff into them. Keep thinking the zipper is going to beak any time soon. So far so good though.
Very quick breakfast and then into the people carrier to the airport which was nice and comfy after rattling around in the land cruiser for the last 4 days!
Tasha had also managed to sort out a taxi from Zanzibar airport to the hotel which seemed reasonable and efficient too. Fingers crossed.
Okay, so Arusha Airport was an experience, a good one I hasten to add. It’s tiny, the checkin lounge was under a tent and everything was very basic, very amusing. Certainly explained why we were unable to check in online yesterday and this morning!! Went through no problem and the departure lounge was under corrugated iron roofing.
Sat looking through the PhotoCircle photos that people had uploaded and got mine ready to upload when I get a decent internet connection. I’m quite pleased with the ones I’ve got to share and I hope the guys in the group like them too. As usual I’ve loads to upload!!
We sat and waited a while as fellow travellers filtered through and then we were called 30mins early and took off at 9.00am instead of 9.20am. Result!
Now to relax for an hour or so listening to music.
Journey was fine. Loved listening to my tunes, back to what I know!! The flight was less than an hour and getting through security was as you might expect..very easy. Our driver was waiting and we loaded the car and settled down for a 90mins drive.
First impressions are that it’s more “built up” than Arusha. The roads are better quality as are the buildings, it just feels like the standard of living is better here. Mind you we’ve only been in the car 45mins. It does look a nice place.
In my mind, for whatever reason, I imagine spices and Istanbul type country and buildings and life. It’s just the name, Zanzibar, to me sounds so exotic. We’ll see soon enough won’t we? They want tipping more at the minute, could be an issue, we’ve no cash other than to pay this taxi exactly the amount I drew out yesterday, that was fortunate!!
Even the street stalls and markets look better quality.
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