With the railway in Tanzania from it Salaam to Mbeya near the Lake Malawi

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Tanzania

Tanzania is a state in East Africa and is because of the Indian ocean. Tanzania borders in the north on Kenya and Uganda, in the west on Rwanda, Burundi and the democratic Republic of the Congo and in the south on Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. Tanzania formed by the union of Tanganjika and Sansibar. The largest city is Daressalam. The tansanische mainland consists of different elements. 16 to 64 kilometers spreads coastal strips with tropical vegetation. Up to 1067 meters highly lain the Massai savannah in the north and a high plateau with 900-1200 meters height in the south up to the Lake Malawi is enough. The Central African ditch affects Tanzania in the west, the East Africa niche ditch runs from Kenya to Mozambique central by the country. Enormous craters and volcanos like the Kibo (5895 m) the highest mountain of Africa, the Mount Meru (4562 m) and the Mount Rungwe (2960 m), developed in this tectonic Bruchzone. The national territory of Tanzania borders on three of the largest seas of Africa: in the north at the Lake Viktoria, in the west at the Lake Tanganjika and in the south to the Malawi lake. Tanzania has numerous ones of national park. Of Tanzania Eisenbahn-Netz of altogether 3,690 km distance, possesses two railway systems. A net with 1000 mm track width still originates from the German and British colonial age time. The main line runs of Daressalaam over Morogoro and Dodoma of the capital after Tabora. Of Tabora there are branchings after Kigoma at the Tanganyikasee as well as after Mwanza at the Viktoriasee. Further small distances lead after singing IDA and Mpanda. A northern line leads of Daressalam over Ruvu after Tanga and/or after Arusha over Moshi. There is not on this distance passenger traffic. A connection to the course in Kenya exists in Kahe south of Moshi after Voi to the Uganda course. A second net with a track width of 1067 mm makes a connection of it Salaam over Mbeya to Zambia and to the South African railway network. This distance was built of China. The vehicles cannot turn into from the one to the other system.

Tanzania-Zambia Railway

 Tazara station Dar es Salaam

 Tazara station Mbeya

Friday 4 June at 18 o'clock goes our machine from Berlin to Amsterdam with connection to Nairobi and it to Salaam. Arrival into it Salaam at 10 o'clock local time. We got over the flight well. After time-consuming waiting for the visa, we sit finally in a taxi us into a hotel, which brings Jambo Inn. The Jambo Inn hotel accommodates almost exclusively backpack travelers like us. There is a small difference however, we could be agemoderate by many grandparents. The rooms are terrible, but there is water to refreshes and a bed to rests. At 15 o'clock then to the station Tanzania railway (Tanzania Railways corporation) run. As localunaquainted and without English knowledge it is very heavy to find the correct way. My Kisuaheli on earlier journeys in Kenya was sufficient completely, led to surprise and constant counter questions, which disconcerted me much. Even numbers were mostly shortened. Traffic and the heat are added to let those become 1.5 km the strain. We have ourselves the goal set from Daressalaam to Kigoma at the Lake Tanganjika to drive around us on the Liemba to Zambia to embark there. In the message of Tanzania in Berlin we had inquired that the distance drives constantly. We experienced that the course only on Tuesday after Kigoma drives and maps gets one on the travel day starting from 15 o'clock. Does not please us at all 3 days in Daressalaam to wait. Afterwards, the Jambo Inn hotel and fruit visits obvious market bought. Unfortunately in Tanzania in contrast to Kenya with food very high prices are first required by tourists. I find it time-consuming and annoyingly constantly to act. Many achievements such as Internet fees, transport, Beherbung etc. are offered for different prices. For residence and not residence. I have understanding only for the regulation of the entrance into national park. In the evening first meal taken, bread with Papaya. We had cut ourselves, had again heated up and into foil had welded bread baked, in 20 times 160 g portions. It outlasted 24 days well. Our luggage amounted to for 2 persons nevertheless only 22kg.

Approach Dar es Salaam

Hotel Jambo Inn

Dar es Salaam

Port area Dar es Salaam

After a calm night at 8.30 o'clock for breakfast 5 Germans meet. A teacher in its occupation and its stay is active financed, and a recent pair. It is active as development aides in Tanzania and it had its parents to visit. It was for us interesting to experienced that humans in Tanzania the jam cooking and baskets twists to be only taught must. In the morning we run to the port (distance 2 km). The port is the largest of East Africa and functioned as place of transshipment for goods of all art. it gives a lively Fährverkehr after Sansibar. At 14 o'clock again in the hotel. At noon bread and bananas eaten. We drink beer in one in the afternoon send hotel with beautiful prospect. Afterwards a city plan of a street trader bought. In the evening in proximity of our hotel we eat in a Eßlokal. One selected the meals from a hot bar. A abendlicher walk lets the day end. The following night is very loud and we can sleep little.

Park zum Müßiggang

Askari Denkmal

schönes Gebäude

Restaurant schöne Aussicht

Against mornings at 5 o'clock was called to the prayer and the night is finally for us past. After the breakfast for lack of alternatives we run again to the port. At the port it still another little area gives to the idle course. At noon again in the hotel and eat our bread. In addition there were Avocados. The course opens its sales switch in the week at 15 o'clock. In order to go surely that we receive still the places in a sleeping car compartment for 2 persons, we go to the station. No humans are locally and the switches are closed. Only after searches we meet a course employee us communicated that the distance is interrupted for longer time. In a close center we drink a beer and regret our whole journey. In Germany we had only times in such a way looked for and then had simply booked 10 days before our journey, without travel intention in the Internet for fares. We knew naturally already some reports on a journey those the distance Daressalaam after Kigoma descriptive, and which we wanted to concern. With alternatives we had not been concerned. Our goal is no longer attainable for us and the conception in Daressalaam longer to stay is cruel. In the hotel we meet the recent pair again, which tells us of a second line. It goes from it Salaam over Mbeya to Zambia. They already were at the Malawi lake, which one reaches from Mbeya. We are over it facilitate a new goal to have found. In the evening we eat mandatorily our bread with Avocado. Afterwards in the Intenetcafe still information collected. There we meet a young woman, who as we, in Berlin lives. It was likewise at the Malawi lake and confirms the lake a worthwhile goal is. In the evening we visit strong motor traffic to 23 o'clock the city without of them during the day.

Hafen Dar es Salaam

Fähre nach Sansibar

Fähre nach Kigamboni

Kigamboni kleiner Hafen

After the breakfast we run to the ferry and from there with a Dalla Dalla, local means of transport that the Matatu in Kenya correspond, drive we to the station of the private Tazara railway company (Tanzania Zambia Railway). The station is appropriate for approximately 10 km far away from the port and the distance is streßig. The course has Vierbettkabienen in the roofridge Class only, and who does not drive as pair must 4 places book over separately to sleep. There is a long queue and each dispatching lasted eternally. Our tickets we get in record time and built me in the point knowledge of a language. The return trip stand we in the Dalla Dalla curved. It becomes in the back-up a sweating cure. For the first time we eat a meal to noon. Stinking cars " in the afternoon; gezählt". Against evening we buy a melon and bananas on the market and with flashlight light are eaten. Daressalaam is whole without river. All business has to run emergency power generators. The gasoline smell is horrible. At night it is again very loud. There is not the employees consideration takes and it does not understand that one expects in a hotel to sleep to be able.

Still no river. The roads are strongly geschwängert with gasoline smell of the cars and generator sets. Total fruit day is announced, since the gas places without river cannot work. At noon it rained strongly. Afterwards we run again to the ferry. From there we keep running always the nose after. We discover a large Freßmeile of native ones in port proximity. Without the condition of a kitchen enterprise (we do not mean with a condition a German standard) here everything is very dirty, but crowds of kitchen personnel must carry white headscarves. We drink a shower. At the end of the Freßmeile we discover still another small Fährhafen. With a ferry we translate over a Crack to Kigamboni. There and first sees a small beer garden to visits time the Indian ocean in Daressalaam. Two hours stay with which we the town centre by Daressalam cloud-coated with strong rainfalls experience. On the way back we see fish conditions. A dealer has a particularly large fish. On my request the fish to photograph to be allowed, the dealer releases. Is however an individual case. In the evening there is again river however no water.

Dar es Salaam Wolken

Fischhandel

Kigamboni

Strand Kigamboni

Again a loud night had. Again no river and no water. Breakfast however gives it. Luggages things for our safari to the Malawi lake. We leave half of our luggage in Daressalaam. After packing again with the ferry on the other hand banks. This time we can be explored 4 hours time around there the environment. Again back we eat in a better area in a large modern lunch. One can not possibly eat the meat, pepper steak, so toughly is it. In the hotel there is again to water and river. We meet a young lady doctor from Germany, who is active in a hospital of Daressalaam for short time. In the evening we sit still in one send hotel with roof terrace and eat a little thing.

The last night in the Gruselhotel was somewhat calmer. To the breakfast we drive with a tax to the Tazara station. The course is to drive off at 12 o'clock. At the station we provide ourselves with 7 l water. With delay the course drives off at 2 o'clock. Differently as there in Kenya, because one can place the clock with the departure. We find our Viererabteil cosy. The course gives us the feeling, in a goods train to sit that constantly ranked and that always new cars are coupled. Hold is announced. We expect o'clock with the course against 5 by the Selous Game reserve to drive. At animals we see elephants, buffalos, giraffes, Genus, Zebras and Antilopen. Unfortunately the course had too much movement for reasonable photos. To the night we eat our bread with nut upstroke. It is a jerky night. From time to time we look with the stop at stations from the window. Many dealers with lamps try to sell something. Mainly at the compartments of the simple class. It looks somewhat eerie.

Bahnhof

Warteraum

Daressalam nach Sambia

Händler an Bahnhöfen

In the morning completely beautifully coolly. We drink hot tea. The landscape is beautifully however monotonous. At 15 o'clock we should be in Mbeya. Our fear is which we the station miss. Differently as in the Daressalaam the sleeping car compartments do not have a platform and our hips with partial artificial joint to make there something difficulties. The course crew is made of Zambia and of those we is not understood. We go waiting through the compartments of the different classes to the point of the course and there. They are much zerschlissen. At 17 o'clock we bring in into the Tazara station of Mbeya. It is a large station from its task exactly as in Daressalaam is much too large. The platform is short, so that the roofridge Class of passengers, since the director/conductor of the exits by a floor plate are covered when in and stepping out to fight have. Subsequently, it goes over a crushed stone way with spelzigen strike-attractive weeds the course along. We take a taxi and drive into the Karibuni center. We get a beautiful room. Although we actually did not do nothing at all, the day was completely beautiful exerting. At 19 o'clock sleep time and we were experienced our first really calm night in Tanzania.

Landschaft

Landschaft

Zug Restaurant

Bahnhof mit Kirmes

At 8 o'clock we rise and get a beautiful breakfast. Afterwards we explore Umgebung.Wir inform us at a Dalla Dalla stop over the distance after Matema to the Malawi lake. We experienced that we transfer four times must. Of the hotel Karibuni center with a Dalla Dalla to the Tazara station, afterwards with buses from the Tazara station after Tukuyu and Tukuyu to Kyela, then far of Kyela with a Dalla Dalla up to a branching before Itungi and of this further after Matema. We hire the young man, from whom we got the information, for the next day as companions on. We discover a beautiful hotel with a wonderful prospect where we eat and leave ourselves thereby much time. In the evening only all all this for Matema is packed into a completely small backpack. We, like another backpack in Daressalaam, already leave the larger backpack in the hotel Karibuni center. We want to be on the day after the next again back.

Busfahrt nach Tukuyu

Matema Hotel

Bungalow Zimmer

Matema Strand Lake Malawi

Well out-slept, with a good breakfast we go driving the Dalla Dalla to the road where. Our leader is and we also there can start. Matatu and buses of the first three stages are full, but we are used to that from Kenya. The landscape is delightful and we advances fast. The fourth stage makes us somewhat ensures because no Dalla Dalla in view is. The driver of a passenger car presents itself. The problem is that with the driver together already 5 persons in the car sits and this thereby is already full. It wants to there still also clean-press us in all seriousness. 20 km runway keeps up us however off there to drive. It gives however finally nevertheless still another Dalla Dalla. In a small place, whose name I does not know and which is not registered on my maps, conclusion was. Our leader had made his task good and therefore to discharge we him at the next vehicle. The next vehicle was a Pick UP, Doris squeezes themselves in the truest sense of the word in front purely and Jörg places itself on the loading area. On the Pick UP the loading area is fully loaded with gasoline can. Whereupon the riding along stand closely pushed like the herrings. The road or better said the dirt road is strongly averse to the side. The perspective of in-hour trip is not so safe like roller coaster driving. After six hours travel time are we at the goal. Connoisseurs of the distance mean the time are record suspicious. The Malawi lake appears to us fairy taleful beautifully. It has a wonderful gravel beach and a beautiful clear water us immediately to bathes invites. The water is warmly however nevertheless refreshing. The hotel is operated by a Diözese, has under other beautiful, romantic Bungalows at the lake. They are been appropriate for 150 m of the main house and we are, perhaps a guard at the main house, the only present ones in the night. The area was open and during the day also by native ones is used. We place a chair against the door and our money walk for safety's sake into a hiding place. Several humans those live there insure us in the next days that nobody would steal something from the area. In the evening we eat in the hotel rice with tomato sauce.

Bergseite vom Lake Malawi

Bungalow am Lake Malawi

Blick Richtung Malawi

Tropenkrankenhaus

Well out-slept we welcome our Paradies. The breakfast is good, but there was the same breakfast in each hotel actually always. Only the toast was qualitatively different. Afterwards we bathe extensively. We would like to remain most of all there up to the return journey to Germany. The thing had only one hook. Necessary medicines we could not have been lost in the stages back left thereby you. Mainly lung medicines in addition, pain killers against arthritis and malaria means. In Marsabit (north Kenya) there was already times the same problem. In a pharmacy there was a lung medicine a smaller active substance content had. It was combined with another helpful active substance. Doxyzyklin as malaria prophylaxis was likewise available. Practically before the hotel there is a correct hospital for tropical diseases and our hope was directed toward it. The thing begins well, we meets a young man named Michael from Germany in the hotel in a Bungalow lives and from the nightshift comes. Michael worked as an unsalaried employee (male nurse) for one year in the hospital. This Bungalow has its own history. It was donated from there formerly guest-working nurses from Berlin. At the Bungalow therefore a board with the name Berlin is attached. It is to be gone immediately ready also into the hospital. He presents us without exception to all physicians with hand vibrating. Before us it gives only two patients and we comes briskly by the instances. As in Marsabit, we can receive equivalent medicines. Using up of the medicines is free. As we are not experienced later the medicines subsidized, although cost Doxyzyklintabletten, which rank in Germany among the cheap medicines, only approximately 20% of the German price. The lung medicines have another active substance, so that one cannot draw a comparison. They are however likewise cheap. Michael does not offer a guidance to us by the hospital, a permission on the part of the hospital is a problem. We became acquainted with all ranges. The development of the hospital, the financing, the statistics, which medicines are available, the equipment with devices, procurement of units of stored blood and their storage, as the patients are treated and which cares for them to pay to have etc. the patients to become from their members. But there is personal laundry outside of the hospital to cook places and an area on that is washed. At night sleep up to two members beside the beds of the patients on earth. The pertinent children sleep under the beds. All physicians, under it also guest physicians are also in the discussion and one marked to them their commitment. A few nice and developing words are said to each patient. We experience that the hospital is only supplied 3 months ago ago from outside with electricity. Before there was only 3 hour on the day by self-sufficiency river. Only completely important functions were kept upright still from a smaller aggregate. The guidance takes three and a half hours. Afterwards we want to extend our Bungalow. The hotel employee said us that we cannot pay however with dollar and it is not possible in completely Matema a conversion. Again Michael advice knows. The hotel manager would be still in the proximity and that intends to drive to Kyela and him can one trust. We get it still and it are ready to exchange for us dollar into Tansani Schillings in Kyela. Subsequently, we bathe extensively and visited a neighbour hotel. There there is beer. In the evening we eat again rice with tomato sauce. We are very discriminating with which we eat. We were already fifteen times in Africa and except training money on our first African journey, we never problems had. We get our money in the evening. We book our two overnight accomodation already booked seven further in addition. An extension is then still possible

Küche für Angehörige

Wetter verändert sich

Idylle

Umgebung Vom Hotel

Beautiful weather and Michael say which it the Malawi lake saw never so calm. On the lake hoist is to arise to sails to make impossible. We enjoy bathing. At noon we eat times for a change rice with vegetable. In the hotel there is a small beach bar in that, if one becomes apparent, to buy beverages can. Mangogetränk in the Tetrapack pleases us well. In the evening we arrange a trip with Fischer. With the Kanu after Ikombe, a place at the Malawi lake without road binding and back to foot at the mountain along. At the night it rained and it gives much wave noise.

The lake is not any longer completely so calm and we decides the route to shift. We wanted the route to foot would also only drive through. Two new young people from Germany arrive. Acquaintance of Michael. He worked in another hospital beyond the mountains of the Malawi lake. It was to visit with it and on the way over the mountains after Matema substantially had injured itself. The ways were dangerously slippery by the rain in the night. When we heard had, we call the route off completely. Fischer gets nevertheless his money.

We slept twelve hours. At the night it rained again. The waves increased strongly and we to go only with the feet in the water and to run in the beach along. Experienced by Michael outside of kiesigen beach from Fischer the arm of a crocodile one tore off. Hopefully the beasts respect the borders. Afterwards we run toward Kyela and meet a Pick UP similarly that us after Matema brought. The way leads us at maintained gardens with banana plants and Kakaobäumen. The houses are from simple rural design. The bicycle plays here a role important as means of transport. A small Farbtupfer at the edge of the way, a small beer garden load to stay. We drink water and hear music. Before the way back we buy still another small bottle tansanischen Brandy. At the hospital we purchase Papaya and bananas which we at the lake eat. Three young German women arrived. They work in Tanzania in the Diakonie. Schmeißen into the waves and swim themselves 50 m far raus. Against evening we regard a soccer game in the hotel. Before the hospital for tropical diseases there are huts, where can see the native soccer world championship. In the evening it storms in the room. The windows are not to close. We pull the curtains by the lattices of the windows and block them additionally with water bottles.

The whole night stormed it and poured, on such weather we did not count. Had breakfast and in bad weather only rum-hung.

In the morning no rain is wonderful that. The Malawi lake is somewhat calmer. Jörg has strong skin problems by a mushroom infection. The pharmacy of the tropical hospital is Sundays closed. On the market before the hospital we meet a physician. We tell our problem. He understands unfortunately only fragments, sits down however on its bicycle and gets Michael, which is on a plantation, which he got from a physician to the automatic operation. Michael dolmetscht in English. The chief of a pharmacy was informed likewise on the way to Michael of the physician. It was added and could give oneself the necessary ointment. The ointment cost 5000 tansanische Schillings (something over 2,50 €). We had only 10,000 tansanische Schillings. I ask Michael whether I without the change do may, he do not say however it am not attached. The physician does not have change and drives nit the Fahrad to change. This experience is already a characteristic. Michael tells us of a tragic accident. Not far of our edge of bathing a strong young native man drowned this morning, although the wave course became less, drug along by the current and. At the market we provide ourselves with fruit. At the lake we inform our three daring Badenixen of the accident. They do without further bathing. The Malawi lake is a ditch lake. Here can occur very strong hoist with high wave course, malicious drop hoist and very strong currents. It gives no rain and the fruit meal at the beach is a benefit. Later we go making us toward Kyela and with the condition of the ways to ensure. Very strongly verschlammt. We had belong the Matema were already repeatedly over weeks because of floodings cut off. At 18 o'clock the weather forecast on the television seen. He announced strong rainfalls for the next time. We decide to drive for safety's sake tomorrow to Mbeya. If we only in Matema stick have that substantial consequences. However a new flight to book can go into the thousands. In the evening rice with tomato sauce. From the television we know that the course drives it from Salaam to Kigoma at the Tanganjikasee again. Smithies of plans. The wave noise weighs us into the sleep.

Pick Up

Schwierige Straße

Überfluteter Reisanbau

Brücke

At night strongly rained. After the breakfast we pack our small backpack and say good-bye to the hotel. We had paid for two days longer, do not speak however not of it. Meetings still Michael, which placed us much, and wish it still another good stay and it us a good journey. We go to the market before the hospital where the social life take place. Wools only with native Motorradfahrern to Kyela drive, have however nevertheless doubts. At 14 o'clock we find a passenger car to us after Kyela finally carry forward. The roads are terrible, and we have sometimes the feeling, we sit in a boat. In Kyela we find a bus after Tukuyu drive. The distance is correct and we is on the safe side. Since it already is shortly before in Tukuyu, we decide to stay overnight there. Land Mark the hotel is our choice. Everything cleanly and generously. We make ourselves fresh and go in the hotel restaurant eating. The meal was good. Tukuyu is on a height of 1500 m and one notices because of the temperatures. The room costs converted with breakfast something over 15 € for two persons and has a television. We see little football and go sleeping.

Well had breakfast, we decide to drive briskly to Daressalaam around the last days on Sansibar to enjoy. Jörg goes changing still money in the bank before we to break open. Nearby the hotel the bus with us drives to Mbeya. We want to go directly with the arrival into Mbeya to the Tazara station around tickets for the next day to buy. We get somehow with that the bus to the station do not drive and ask another passenger where we to step out must. We have luck, the passenger step out at a transfer place and set us into the correct Dalla Dalla. We receive the maps at the station without to line up for the next day. With the Dalla Dalla of far to the Karibuni centers. Credit our backpack taken in receipt and one night booked. Are to that send hotel with the beautiful prospect run and rice with tomato soup eaten. On the way in the hotel Avokados bought and there eaten. The room is somewhat clammy. The Karibuni center is on a height of approximately 1700 m and there can it become already cold. The beds were accordingly thick.

Well had breakfast we wait for our start. Knowledge not so quite which we to make are. We drive with the Dalla Dalla around 10.30 to the station. The course is to drive at 14,15 o'clock. Perhaps there is at the station which to see. The station is still empty around this time. Newcomers travelers place discipline their luggage in a row and later in second. None pays attention to its luggage. It prevails here large confidence on it that nobody steals somewhat. We provide ourselves with water. The course is not punctual. We go, what however no different one makes, over the station building and furnish themselves on the platform. At 15 o'clock all come on the platform. After one quarter of an hour an announcement that comes the course at the neighbour platform holds. There is not a tidy transition. Platform down and platform highly, all climb over the rails. There are many tourists those the course uses. Around 16.15 the course from Zambia brings in. Our compartment is not again because of the end of the course where it a platform gives. We must the compartment proper entern. Up to the break-down of the darkness we sit in the Speisesaal. We dawn by the night.

On the return trip in Selous Game reserve again the animal seen. The course trip passes after our feeling faster. Arrived at it Salaam we take ourselves a taxi. We do not drive this time into the Starlight hotel substantially more expensive are, but more comfort offers. It is hot in Daressalam and air to cuts by the cars. We fetch our deposited backpack from the hotel Jambo Inn. Depositing did not cost money and therefore to need we bad conscience to have because of the hotel change. In the Starlight hotel we repack our backpacks. One is to stay in the hotel if we after Sansibar to travel tomorrow. Hotel restaurant is not so mad. There are no further guests.

Bahnhof in Mbeya

Bahnsteig wechseln

Begegnung

Selous-Game-Reserve

Twenty-first day: Safari Sansibar. Trip with the tax to the port. Spleen for the ferry bought. And back passage cost 120 dollar at the Azam navy company. Wait one hour and can then embark itself. The passage takes scarcely 2 hours. Drive afterwards with a tax for 50 dollar to the east coast. Jambiani is located at the east coast of Sansibar and is like the hotel Blue Oyster, a recommendation from a travel guide. In Matema Sansibar had just which we on the whole journey including flight with 2.100, - € to spend before the plan. With Sansibar it becomes substantially more expensive. The room costs 90 dollar and the meal is expensive. No matter, we want to enjoy the beautiful hotel. When eating we would have made gladly reductions, give it however no alternative except still two portions bread. The sea and the coast look good. The hotel is good with tourists occupied, also from Germany. In the evening the moon shines over the Indian ocean. We estimate the rooms as rooms in a 3 star hotel. We fall asleep fast.

Around 7Uhr risen. It prevails large ebb-tide. Breakfast around 9Uhr. Afterwards we explore the village Jambiani. The village is in a erbärmlichen condition. On the other hand the houses, which we saw in Matema and on the course trip, are into a very much better condition. Sansibar has at least incomes from the tourism business that the other regions which we saw, to hardly have. We had ourselves in Daressalam surprised it hotels gave, where an overnight accomodation costs several hundreds dollar and many African guests was there. Tanzania unites two worlds. We buy a few bananas and two Pampelmusen in a small shop. The ärmlichste and dirtiest shop which we ever saw. At noon bread and fruit. Are enough in the afternoon bathed. The sand at the beach is partial like propellants. The first 30 m in the water are milchig, afterwards it is clear. In the evening we run along still with full moon for a long time and far the beach.

Im Inneren der Fähre

Sansibar Ansicht

Mondschein Indischer Ozean

Plantage im Watt

Large ebb-tide. Before the meal far at the beach run. Afterwards in the Watt. The native ones put on fields here in the Watt. In addition they put pointed sticks into the ground and with cords connected. At these a kind Weichkoralle grow. The structure is like cartilages. The Chinese are the customers of this product. We watch the women, who are exclusive it, who maintain the fields, remove abernten and the harvest. Today our last bread with Papaya eaten. With evening bread we see the moon ascending like a glowing fire ball from the sea.

We are lazy correctly. Bathe, on the couch, in the hammock, bathe well ate we bathe naturally also. In the evening we order a tax for the next day to 10Uhr.

Backpack packed. The vacation on Sansibar is by and we says good-bye from the Indian ocean. At 10 o'clock does not come a tax. Around 11 still no tax is in view. With a Dalla to drive we hesitate still. The Dalla Dalla on Sansibar is very strange to plank bed cars and for us. If we do not come in time to the ferry, the flight is not attainable on the next day. A threatening situation. Another travel's pair has likewise the same problem with its tax. We go finding before the hotel and a small bus to us to carry forward want. It must however still wait for someone outside of the hotel lives and for itself to wait lets. In the meantime the other travel's pair discovered its Changse, those wants however to the airfield. Us the time runs away. The someone is one you, which it considered itself differently and probably their romance wants to continue at Sansibar further and not ride along therefore any longer wants. We create it straight on the ferry to come still in such a way. With running out we see Sansibar disappearing from the tail. The myth Sansibar is large, the reality looks differently. Well-being-smelling smells are still bearable a legend, Stone Town 1997, today more traffic that the smell determined much. The passage was accompanied of wave course and wind and it was wonderful on the point of the ferry on and starting from the waves to be felt. From the port we drove again to the Starlight hotel. Order us a taxi for 2 o'clock at night at one point of tax. Luggages all things. Legends at the reception that we around 1.30Uhr would like to be waked. Places of still two bells and fall asleep equal.

Hotel Blue Oyster

Einschiffung

Idylle

Abfahrt

Marvelously slept. We wake up by ringing our bells, the telephone ring by the waking service, 5 minutes later announce ourselves the driver of the taxi and we are recovered and out-slept. The roads are deserted so that we at the airport are already very early. In addition, differently have come could and no taxi would be Trade Union of German Employees nature. We do not know whether and where one would have gotten at this time equal taxi. Package tours are less connected with stress. Other around however these uncertainties constitute a part of the attraction of an adventure journey. The flight went off punctually and brought us in eighteen hours back to Germany.

The flight was pleasant with Tanzania Airlin. In Kigoma quartierten ourselves we in the Coast View Resort for 17 days. The Liemba had suspended 3 weeks against other timetables. Much to undertake we could not do in the long time, Doris with trousers, a skirt and a few blouses again had provisional equipped ourselves. To rain clothing, firm footwear and everything were missing which one need in such a way. A national park visit like the Ngombe national park was impossible thereby. The Liembafahrt lasted 7 - instead of 5 days. New Year's Eve on board the Liemba was quite nice. After the trip we had new friends from Kigoma. To 11.01.2012 the journey went back to Daressalam. Since we had only to 16.01.2012 our flight to Germany, we still drove to Bagamoyo. The city is appropriate for 75 km north of it Salaam at the Indian ocean opposite the island Sansibar.