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Back on the mainland in Dar Es Salaam it was time to get moving, but first some chores like finding
embassies and checking on safety and visas for our upcoming countries. The Burundi Embassy was a pleasant experience (unlike Sudan about a month ago). The agents were friendly, and we sat and chatted with the consul who was super laid back and seemed to have all the time in the world! Burundi had some political upsets over a year ago, and seeing as the entry visa is $90, we wanted to check that it's now safe to be there. We were assured it is safe and they are definitely welcoming tourists.
We never found the Rwandan embassy as it has relocated to who knows where in Dar, but on our mission, we accidentally happened on a real find: the fastest internet in the east and probably all of Africa so far! You may think: so what! Well, we've been in Africa well over a year, and if you haven't gathered yet, decent internet (and I'm not even talking WiFi here) is still hard to find. We discovered that The Kilimanjaro Hotel in Dar has excellent WiFi in its huge modern lobby. And while the reception desk tried to help us with the embassy search, we started to look like we belonged - being a mzungu, of course, helped! Before we knew it, we were settled in for a couple of hours of 'dropboxing' photos from our laptop at 500kb/sec (normally it's about 2kb/sec if we're lucky!). Not only was it fast, it wasn't locked and we sat there seamlessly using their internet for free! We'll take what ever we can get! As we're currently about two countries behind storing our pics online, you can understand our excitement!
One of the nice things about being back in Dar was staying somewhere familiar: Mikadi beach, the lodge we'd camped at before. It's also a place where overland trucks stop and we were excited to see our old guide from our trip from Windhoek to Livingstone last October, Sam. Good to see him before he headed off with his latest tour group to Zanzibar. *Mush
Back on the mainland in Dar Es Salaam it was time to get moving, but first some chores like finding
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| Morning Madness at the Dar Fish Market |
We never found the Rwandan embassy as it has relocated to who knows where in Dar, but on our mission, we accidentally happened on a real find: the fastest internet in the east and probably all of Africa so far! You may think: so what! Well, we've been in Africa well over a year, and if you haven't gathered yet, decent internet (and I'm not even talking WiFi here) is still hard to find. We discovered that The Kilimanjaro Hotel in Dar has excellent WiFi in its huge modern lobby. And while the reception desk tried to help us with the embassy search, we started to look like we belonged - being a mzungu, of course, helped! Before we knew it, we were settled in for a couple of hours of 'dropboxing' photos from our laptop at 500kb/sec (normally it's about 2kb/sec if we're lucky!). Not only was it fast, it wasn't locked and we sat there seamlessly using their internet for free! We'll take what ever we can get! As we're currently about two countries behind storing our pics online, you can understand our excitement!
One of the nice things about being back in Dar was staying somewhere familiar: Mikadi beach, the lodge we'd camped at before. It's also a place where overland trucks stop and we were excited to see our old guide from our trip from Windhoek to Livingstone last October, Sam. Good to see him before he headed off with his latest tour group to Zanzibar. *Mush
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