Dar es Salaam Travel Blogs

Ok, it's been a while, I have a lot of cathing up to do on my blogging... But here we go! Dar es Salaam, "Haven of Peace". I'm not so sure about that, I've seen quieter places for sure! Got to the airport, hurried trough immigration got our backpacks and ran outside to find a toilet (You might nee…

To be further updated.. but you have to check these videos out. These huge animals just hanging out on land that is rightfully theirs... it's just so extraordinary..

mount kilimanjaro frm my office window ;)

Dar es Salaam, Sunday, 20 September 2009 I am relaxing at South Beach after more than ten days of adventure and self-improvement. After being for some time in Cairo, I finally took Egypt air flight to Nairobi. Landed at 4 am, fortunately everything run smoothly and nice for me and my luggage.&n…

Done, done and done!  I picked up my Indian visa yesterday afternoon (I have until March 15th to get there and visit) and buzzed over to drop off my passport at the US Embassy right before it closed.  As it turns out, they will process extra pages in a matter of minutes, but they were jus…

Kwame, (kwamex) had a birthday on Oct 21st and I looked at his profile photo and thought, I could give him a gift by changing his shot. I downloaded the shot and did a little lighting and color changes.  I hope he is happy with the outcome.  Happy Birthday!!   If this is a photo o…

...and so to Dar es Salaam - the "sweatbox of Africa"! Pushing 34C and 95% humidity, even the effort required to relax in the shade with a cold beer brought a sweat to my brow! (It really is hard work, honest... all that "lift glass, drink from glass, put glass down" is hard work at the best of tim…

Dar es Salaam is a diffrent planet, and in face of the temperature, it's close to the sun!Thank god, that my travelmate speaks Swahili

We arrived in the airport 10.35 pm and had a quick check up of our passports and identified our luggage. Afterwards we went outside the airport to have a bit of fresh air. We got in contact with a friendly woman sitting with her sleeping child on the stairs. She told us a little bit of Zanzibar. We…

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Been around a bit this year

Vandaag maken we weer een hoop kilometers. Gelukkig zijn de wegen in redelijke staat en kan de truck goed doorrijden...tot we in de miljoenenstad Dar es Salaam (Dar) komen. Hier rijdt alles kriskras door elkaar en wij moeten naar de andere kant van de stad. Zo'n 10 km buiten Dar slaan we ons tenten…

Tazara Express is cool and Student Identity is the coolest. With 50% discount for student, i enjoyed the train ride for 52 hours. The railway and the trains were built by Chinese dated back to the 60s. Riding on a chinese train for a non-chinese route is special.The kids at those villages we passed…

In a perfect world with no flight cancellations or delays, and where someone could hop from plane to plane within 15 minutes, how many countries can a person visit in the shortest possible time? Here's one possibility using July 2006 timetables.

10 months of working as a volunteer for a dutch orginasation in Kenya. also some traveling in Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi