Back on Video Coach express... this time without video...

MEMORABLOG: 28.11.1998

Last night it was raining, so Arusha transformed into Finland - a land of thousand lakes (well, all the potholes were full of water). It was an early start, as this time we decided not to make again a mistake of starting late - so, departure was around 6:30 :)

This time we got an extra baggage... a guy, presumably one of the owners of the safari agency that we went with, is also going with us to Zanzibar... some "business" to do... lets call him John (or was he David??). Thats OK, as he arranged us a bus tickets, and they were of quite lower price than the other way around... OK, bus was... well... different from our first Coach. First of all, there were much more sits in the bus (5 seats in a row), and secondly... there was no TV, despite the name Video Coach... :)

Funny, but i guess the sits in the front row are reserved for mzungus. So, we got another mzunga for companion for the next 8-9 hours... And that was OK, as she was quite interesting, a stewardes from Switzerland travelling around Africa - alone... This time i felt much better, as people were not so much staring at us. I guess, after almost 10 days in Tanzania we also got a bit "adjusted"...

Trip itself was uneventful. No puncture, nothing really special... Of course, this wouldn't be Africa unless... There was a woman sitting infront of us (dare I say, "big momma"). Apparently going on some kind of business or just visiting family in Dar. And she had a HUGE bag... Full of roasted fish... and she was constatly eating them, and at the end we smelt like rotten fish :)

But that was not annoying, just funny... Annoying was entertainment. On a way to Arusha we were watching either film, either music videos... This time we got music... Volume was turned to the max, and loudspeakers were really under pressure... Problem was, that there was ONLY one cassette, and that it was playing whole 9 hours... So, ladies and gentlemen... let me present... BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS...

Damn... i stopped listening reagge after that bus ride... Interesting was, that people will still singing the song... even when the cassette played for the 10th time...

We arrived to Dar just before darkness... Again Jumbo Inn, and a short walk around Dar... but not too much... we decided to go directly to Zanzibar, and maybe do some serious exploring in the last days of our trip...