Friday, April 15, 2011

Day 54 – That’s a landmark?

Mbeya – Mt Livingstone Hotel

A day to catch up on the internet and some shopping for our train trip tomorrow, and to arrange some ongoing travel. We also had a pleasant time walking around the centre of Mbeya, which is quite compact and close to our hotel.

Our guidebook had a landmark called “Rhino Statue”, so we decided to check it out. It was the smallest rhino we’ve ever seen – smaller than the giraffe and lion statues nearby!

We plan to spend a few lazy days on the beach in Zanzibar over Easter, so we’ve managed to book some accommodation in Stone Town on Zanzibar. We were a little worried we’d left it a bit late, in the end we’ve had to spread our stay across two places as our first pick was booked out from Good Friday onwards.

M was pretty happy that that Tanzanian sim card we picked up yesterday has unlimited internet usage for a month – originally he thought they’d be sorry they gave M access to unlimited internet …. however it is so slow they are pretty safe! We have managed though to upload a new album of photos for Malawi, as well as a couple more videos, so it’s serving us well for now.

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