Ferry to Dar es Salaam

After breakfast we spend another leisurely morning in Nungwe

In the afternoon we check out and transfer to Zanzibar harbour. From there we will join the ferry from Zanzibar to Dar es Salaam.

We'll be staying at the Peacock Hotel again, so in familiar territory. We'll hopefully be able to explore on our last evening

in Tanzania.

THAT'S WHAT THE BROCHURE SAID, THIS IS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:

We did have a very relaxing morning. We packed our things, checked out of the room. We mostly chilled on the beach and took in the last few sites until our taxi arrived.

After a mini-panic where I thought I had lost not only our ferry tickets but our passports as well, we eventually found them and got going. 

After only a few minutes on the road we came across a very hectic accident. I won't go into details, but suffice to say, Pray to God that you don't end up in a road accident while out there. That pretty much shook me up for the rest of the trip - hence the complete lack of photos until we reached Dar again.

Also (to try and calm me down) Marco thought this would be the perfect time to teach me how to play chess. You know, on one of those teeny tiny magnetic boards. In a taxi doing about 100km's an hour in the pouring rain on very, very dodgy roads. 

I lost that game!

(Nerves wrecked..) we eventually arrived at the harbour with plenty of time to spare. 

On the brochure we were told we'd have to pay $30 departure tax, each, to leave Zanzibar. That must be an airline thing because we weren't asked for it (yippeee! & Score!!)

The ferry itself took about 2 1/2 hours. They did have air-con on the ferry but it was still unbelievably hot!

On arrival at Dar es Salaam, our trusty Leopard Tours rep met us and took us to the hotel. This would be the last night before heading home.

That night we decided to go to the hotel for dinner - we were both hungry after days of being ill and not eating much over the past few days.

We didn't realise until we were already seated that it was a buffet dinner. (Buffet included banana soup and goats meat.) (PS: banana is in EVERYTHING)

Anyway, aside from it being exorbitantly expensive (R1000 (US$100) for 2 bottles of (cheap) wine and a buffet dinner!) it was our last night and we were determined to have fun!

We had, after all just climbed Kilimanjaro!!