Day 27 Singida - Kigamboni

January 5, 2016
We had a very nice breakfast at the hotel's restaurant, there were delicious local dishes. This was our room from the outside:

And TV in the room behind the bars :D

Our Room:

So we left our hotel and drove inland towards Dar Es Salaam, we passed Dodoma which is the capital of Tanzania. There were nice petrol stations, many decent restaurants. On our way we didn't see any mud hats, people have nice houses, painted and with gardens around them:

Lots of construction going on, many apartment blocks are being built:

Our roads were in good condition again and with distant mountains:

And again many beautiful houses around Dodoma:

Wont get far without road accidents in Africa, this time we saw a truck completely smashed:

In Tanzania there is no rubbish on the sides of the road, its nicely packed in bags:

And getting closer to Dar Es Salaam we were stopped by policeman, first time in Tanzania! And he was such a lovely man, he just wanted to chat and said to us Welcome to Tanzania for at least 10 times! It was getting late when we arrived in Dar and we still had a while to drive to the campsite. Most of them are located South of Dar and there is a big loop to drive to get there, because there is river mouth and no bridge across, just boat.

So we got to Dar, and the traffic was super big! It was rush our and we waited 1 hour at 1 traffic light!!! It got dark and we had pretty much to drive. Crazy truck drivers, people on the roads, motorbikes, car accidents, that was a crazy drive!!! We got to campsite at 22:00. Straight to bed and next morning we were planning to go to Zanzibar. The campsite we stayed was called Kigamboni and we were able to leave our truck there for a couple of nights while we are in Zanzibar.

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