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I recently visited the easct coast of Africa! Tanzania to visit family....and ended off the trip to Zanzibar...so awesome, exotic and basically being lucky enough to experience hot hot days and warm waves!!!

Well hello you naive individual ( I admit i was as well)... The Part of Africa that i have known my whole life is nnnnnnnnoooooooothing like the rest of Africa! To get anywhere ( Ie: the airport into a villiage in Dar es Salaam-which is only 10km's) will take you one hour! this is not because we happen to land at an unfortunate time and get stuck in trafic.. Traffic is chaos 24/7, there are no robots and if you are bigger on the road you are better! instead of indicators they use hooters! So my first experience of Tanzania was a form of organised chaos!!

Besides the hair raising, side winding, back road, dirt road and killing your liver sitting in the back of the taxi adventure you still have to make sure that whether bus, taxi or aricraft you have made time for delays cos...anything... can happen on your 5 hour trip (thus making it 8) to your desired destination!THUS i learn't time is NO issue and delays and breakdowns are part of the African experience

as for Zanibar...do yourself a favour and wake up and do your research before you head for white sand and still blue waters..It was originally a spice and slave island ( DID YOU KNOW: Freddie Mercury was born there?!) so there in the heart of Zanibar in the heart of stonetown you will greeted by friendly faces greating you in Swahili, cats without an ears, dirty streets scattered with litter and local stalls and the odd individual being lead by a monkey on a rope!People do not sell petrol on Sundays as there is not enough............so.........they double charge you and pour it into the car with a tin jug!

What amazed me about the trip on a whole is that everything works for everyone, everyone is friendly and willing to barter to make you happy...malaria may be rife but there is an amazing sense of safeness and security when walking the streets and the experience you come back with is one only found in the heart of Africa. South Africa is nothing ,nothing, nothing like the rest of Africa and it is hard to believe that we can say we come from Africa...