Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Day 65 - Long bus trip? Hakuna Matata!

Dar Es Salaam to Arusha - Le Jacaranda Hotel

We were at the bus station at 5am as were told when we bought the ticket, shame no one told the driver who turned up at 5.45. The Kilimanjaro luxury bus was a step up from the Malawi buses but we still didn’t believe that it would take only 9 hours, sure enough we made it to Arusha by 5.30pm - more like 12 hours, but after what we have experienced 3 hours delay is nothing!

As we are now very cautious with taxis, we eventually decided on a driver that had enough ID to satisfy us he was legitimate and headed to our hotel. Arusha is the “safari capital” of Tanzania – so of course our taxi driver tried to sign us up to a safari on the way to the hotel. However we’ve decided that we'll wait until we’ve checked out a few operators in town tomorrow before deciding who to go with.

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