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Day 5

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July 17th 2010
My hotel is in the Bahari Beach are outside of Dar Es Salaam. Today, T, AM and I are going to the city center with SL. Our first stop is the dala-dala at Bahari Pharmacy. A dala-dala is a very inexpensive manner of public transportation and I soon found out why. It's reminiscent of an old, dirty, beat-up, fairly smelly VW bus with four rows of seating--a bench seat for 4 skinny people in the b ... read more

Africa » Tanzania » East » Dar es Salaam

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Shortly after independence, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the nation of Tanzania in 1964. One-party rule came to an end in 1995 with the first democratic elections held in the country since the 1970s. Zanzibar's semi-autonomous status and po... ... read more