December 30, 2015
We started our morning with beautiful sea scenery as the Sun was rising over the horizon:
Dhows were leaving into the sea for some fresh fish:
Soon after morning coffee and breakfast we headed to Dar-Es-Salaam to get to Mozambican Embassy and to find out about our visas. We were trying to ring them, but as it is festive season, nobody answers the phone, so we were hoping to see some sort of information upon arrival. The road condition to Dar-Es-Salaam was excellent:
Passing every village there are markets full of great variety of fruit and vegetables:
This is jackfruit which we never seen before:
One thing that we noticed in Tanzania is that up until now it wasn't easy to find a place to buy bulk beer, just closer to Dar-Es-Salaam there were some shops that sold. You can buy box of 20 beer bottles and crate and pay deposit for the bottles and next time just bring the empty bottles back and pay for the beer. Or you can buy beer cans but those are much more expensive, as locals don't drink from cans. Getting closer to Dar, roads were getting more and more busy, here some man transporting materials on motorbike:
Dar-Es-Salaam is very beautiful and modern city, lots of business centres, skyscrapers, big and good roads. From distance it looks just like any other Western city:
Dar is the biggest city in Tanzania, it has 4.5 million inhabitants, also it is the largest and most populous Swahili speaking city in the world.
According to Wikipedia Dar is the third fastest growing city in Africa and population is predicted to reach 76 million by year 2100!!!
Dar city centre:
Soon we found Mozambican Embassy and found out about their opening days. After driving and walking around Dar we headed North looking for a campsite. The roads in Dar are very busy and hectic, street vendors come to you and sell you anything you can imagine! From magazines and toys to mops for kitchen.
Just few kilometres out of Dar, the roads got empty again and sun was starting to set:
Everywhere in Tanzania you can see locals playing football:
Soon we arrived at the city called Bagamoyo, which is listed as the World Heritage Site. It used to be very important port town. Now old buildings are in ruins and some of them are turned into museum as least. This is German Boma building which was built as the German colony's central administrative office:
Bagamoyo is famous with its Arab architecture
As in all touristy places people like us are treated differently and everyone tries to sell us something and show us around, this is the small city centre:
Lots of old buildings lies in ruins:
We found a great campsite at one of the lodges and decided to go out today for some local food:
We took a tuk-tuk (which in Tanzania they call
Bajaj), as we were strongly advised not to walk during dark in the city, because lots of robberies and attacks on tourists in the city. So we got to some local busy restaurant to try traditional Tanzanian dishes, we had some goat and ugali and delicious juice drinks. Everything was in swahili. No alcohol was served at this place. It was interesting to see locals having big tables and celebrating, local businessman having a dinner with a phone in his hand, or a young couple that went out for a date. The food and bar counter reminded us of some kind of prison as everything was behind bars. Also here you don't really get any cutlery unless you ask as they eat with their hands.
So we had some food and a selfie:
We took a tuk tuk back to our home.
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