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Hello, WE ARE HERE!!!!!!
After a nine hour flight, having drunk 3 mini bottles of wine (laura), watching Shrek 3, Flying over Kilimanjaro and Laura mistaking the light on the aeroplane wing for the sunrise we finally landed at Dar es salaam! Our four and a half stone bags arrived unopened and we were delighted to be greeted by a man holding a sign saying Laura Swanfield, which we assumed was for us(?!). He carried our bags and everything. :) We then had a very interesting journey to the hotel in rush hour traffic which included buses crammed to the brim with people with no room to breathe and men on bicycles carrying what looked like millions of eggs on the back!! There were lorries full of chickens, pick up trucks with about 50 people in the back and a police van with convicts sitting on the side of the van in orange jumpsuits before we even got to the centre of town. Laura's mouth was open the whole time and she had to be told to stop pointing at everthing. haha.
The hotel is nice and a TINY 15 year old boy carried both our bags at once (Dads, we think you should pump some iron haha). After a nap we explored Dar Es Salaam a bit, I (Laura) was bricking it and had to be dragged outsidee by Emily telling me its alright you'll get used to them staring at you!!! (Emily: In the end she was fine and didnt want to go back to the hotel). We walked around for about two hours, saw the harbour and made the mistake of walking through the ferry terminal where about 3000000000 people tried to get us on their ferries to Zanzibar. We walked through the market which was crazy, there was every type of fruit and vegetable you could imagine (we didnt even know what half of them were but much to Emily's delight there were PEAS!!!). There were mounds of grains and rice and hundreds of chickens in cages.
We got brave and went in a couple of shops to buy some food and water (in the queue there were two little boys and one of them nudged the other one to take his hat off to be polite to us which we thought was really sweet!)...we only got called Muzungu (dont know how to spell it but it means white person) once but we did get stared at a lot.
In the evening, we had an amazing sea food risotto in the hotel and watched an African dancing show...(the women can seriously move...it put our big fish little fish cardboard box moves to shame...dont think we will be doing much dancing!)
Off to Malawi tomorrow....
lots of love Laura and Emily xxx
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