Adventure starts!

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 need one after so many hours on a plane). Just to discover, there ARE no toilets outside. You have to go before exiting immigration. Though luck.

Found our way downtown, to Libya street. Quite a few bugdet hotels there, but before you get into one, you have to manouver trough all the safari salesmen. That's actually quite easy once you learn how to say no thank you very much, but as Tanzania newbies, it took it's time. Don't want to be impolite, you know.

This bird got us into SO much trouble!

Finally, we checked into Econolodge, wich luckily had reeeaaaaaly nice toilets. Nice and clean, and our own little balcony, yeih!

Wanted to check out Dar before heading further, so in a few days we visited the botanical garden, wich luckily was for free. Would have been very disappointed if I actually payed for that... Was a couple of dried out bushes really. Go in a small mess with a police officer as well, he claimed we did something illegal to take pictures of a big bird. We didn't want to pay, and played really stupid tourists, and in the end we called our new friend Ali Baba who talked to the policeman, and suddenly there was no problem at all. How peculiar!

We also spendt quite a few hours at the excellent restaurant/cafe Chef's Pride.

Botanical garden. The nicest tree (the one not yellow and dry)

Went to the national museum to, not really a "must-do", to be honest. But, beeing the only people there, we had a lot of fun taking funny pictures of each other... You don't get any more fun than you make yourself, right?

The harbour and markets were swarming places, nice to go there for a chat with the locals, but difficult avoiding buying loads of stuff you don't really want to make your backpack even heavier. We managed to buy nothing at all, so quite impressed with myself, beeing the little shopping-maniac I am.

The big highlight of our stay was when Ole, really hpot and tired, bounced down on the toilet lid - and broke it into pieces. Almost cramped with laughter, especially when he actually brought the pieces down to the reception to explain what he did... The owner here is pretty nice to, so we didn't have to pay for it. Just felt slightly awkward every time we passed the reception after that.

Summing it up: Fun city for a few days, but skip the botanical garden, will you?