Touts: Wow, what a difference Tanzania has been compared to the rest of the African countries. Touts, touts and more touts. For those of you who don't know, a tout is a guy on the street who approaches you trying to sell you tours, boat tickets, bus tickets, prostitutes, drugs, or any other item that he thinks you are willing to buy...It started as soon as we made it to the river separating Tanzania and Mozambique, when, as Jas described, the owners of the boats fought each other over which one of them was going to take us across and try and rip us off (this is inevitable). In Dar Es Salaam we constantly had at least two or three 'tour' operators waiting outside our hotel to see if we wanted to buy a tour. One
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