Day 220 - Hello Indian Ocean

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Another early 4am start, but at least this time the temperature was refreshingly chilled. We had a 10 hour drive to Dar es Salaam on Tanzania's East Coast. An amazing drive through Iringa and huge teak plantations and green everywhere. Gemma spent a few months here back in 1999 studying the impact of these teak plantations on the native forest so it was interesting for her to see the changes since then (more tarmac roads and more litter). In Dar es Salaam we had a couple of hours to wander around before catching a ferry across the river to our campsite. It's an Islamic place and noticeably so with all the women covered up, a bit like Rusholme in Manchester. We went to the ATM to withdraw 500,000 of the local currency shillings. Finally we settled into our campsite overlooking the Indian Ocean.

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