Dar Es Salam, Tanzania

Springland hotel

We left Springland hotel behind and started out early morning with a 8 hour bus ride to Dar Es Salam. We opted for the more expensive first class as we were not really in the mood to fight for seats neither to stand up for the duration of the trip and socialize between chickens and locals on the long bumpy drive. 


Shortly after the bus rolled out from the station the tiredness came over us and we slept thru small villages and forrest land and awoke just shortly before arriving into the outskirt of Dar. Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's most important city for both business and government and contains unusually high concentrations of trade. Somehow I had expected a bit more upscale area compare to Moshi, but it all just looked so alike just a lot bigger and more crowded. 


During our stay we toured the city via the local bus Daella-Daella and went to the market and strolled around inhaling the various aromas of sweet, sour and unidentified not so nice smelling areas. It was a great experience but a few hours was enough and we went back to the hotel to get ready for next day 48-hour train ride across the border to Zambia.