Dar Es Salaam

I finally arrived in Dar Es Salaam on Friday night after a 26 hour journey from Bellingham.

I met the rest of my team in the hotel restaurant shortly after arriving and was happy to finally be able to put a real person to a picture and voice. Saturday we spent the day together in Dar Es Salaam exchanging money and buying water and last minute items for our 6 hour bus ride to Dodoma tomorrow. We hope to stop at the "Obama Cafe" on the way to Dodoma.

Saturday morning at 6 am a pack of what sounded like wild dogs came and barked me awake, is this a Tanzanian Alarm Clock? I laughed when I saw the silhouette of tails in my window. I think it was the German Shepards I saw lounging around in the grass later in the day. They seem friendly, so I'm not sure what roused them this morning.

The food : this morning I had fruit and eggs, for lunch pizza. No African food yet to report on, hopefully the restaurant we're going to tonight will have some local flavors.

Other pictures from Dar es Salaam

Off to Tanzania!

It's less than 50 hours before I leave for Tanzania.

I have my visa/passport, clothes, bug spray, and of course my cameras :

• Nikon D50 + 3 lenses for the more professional looking shots. I really hope to capture the landscape, architecture, and wildlife.
  
• Nikon Coolpix - a smaller camera that I can fit in my pocket.
• Cannon Mini DV video. I don't know if I'll end up using this one, but it's small enough to fit in my Lowepro camera and laptop bag, which is a beautiful thing. I can fit all my cameras, camera equipment, and laptop in a single backpack. All that and it's comfortable. Enough said there.
  

Unfortunately I can't bring Jack. I'm sure he'll be upset when he realizes that I'm in Tanzania, and not just out for a really long run.

I didn't want him to miss me too much, so I agreed to let Paige take him out in the Alfa, another thing I'm sure to miss. I'll need to think of something to bring back to him from Africa that will make up for my absence.