Bujumburra to Dar es Salaam – Before you enter the airport you get wanded by Security, walk a bit further and a Passport check, enter the airport and luggage goes through a scanner had to take everything off, next Departure form check which I knew nothing about so the guy who could speak English got my phone and passport and filled in the form online and downloaded it, next the most primitive check-in ever, everything falling to bits but the girl was very helpful and let me look at her screen and choose my seat. No queues anywhere, next immigration, two guys ahead of me, took ages, photo, both thumb prints, and both hands fingerprints, and I am leaving the country did not have to do this when entering hahaha. Another Bombardier Dash 8 – Q400 with frayed seatbelts but plenty of legroom. We made a short stop at Kingoma to drop off and pickup some passengers. Walk down the stairs and a bus to the terminal. Slow processing at Immigration, staff are in no hurry to process passengers, one advantage to this is that your luggage is waiting for you when you get to the belt. Next to an ATM where I paid a US$6 fee and then to the Vodacom shop and bought a SIM 30 days 9 GB Data, TZS 25,000 or US$10. Uber is available in Tanzania but the drivers ask for cash and try to bargain with you, I just hang up and call another car. Cost from the airport to the CBD was US$8 and the regular taxi’s want US$25.
Dar es Salaam – population 5.5 million, rubbish everywhere, crowded, pot holed roads, no traffic rules, chaos in general hahaha.
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