Sea Cliff Resort and Spa

.. of cocktails.
This was a merry evening :-) We also went to Mnemba Island for some
snorkelling, a private resort island which costs over a $1000 dollars
a night to stay. You may have seen in photos as from the air it is in
a shape of a heart. The snorkelling was ok but this made me really
want to go diving again. Especially after meeting a Colombian couple
Henry and Claudia who are doing a lot of diving on their travelling
trip. Unfortunately ...

What could possibly go wrong after such a wonderful trip?
Only traveling back of course! Coming off the ferry and walking in the heat of DAR, we find the coach office. We asked if we could book the 2pm coach ride back to Ukunda. "Oh no, I'm not sure you want to do that! Stay in DAR for the night and get early bus tomorrow morning." "Why not? We cannot afford another night in DAR." "Okay, well you won't arrive back to Ukunda until ...

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We make it to the Ferry Terminal and find the First Class Lounge.. what a relief. We can finally take a break and relax before our ferry. We meet a Russian travel agent and have a nice talk in the lounge before heading onto the ferry. We talk some more on the ferry and exchange contacts for that long awaited trip to Russia I've always wanted to take.

We depart the ferry and what a mess. There's dozens of guys yelling at you, "taxi, I carry your bags"...

... off to the airport again. We didn't see the safari car either!! Alfred then receives a call from the girls.they've found it!! It was at the reception desk. He'd paid for dinner last night and left it sitting there. We were now 20 minutes into an hour long trip and Alfred wanted to turn back! Adams wanted to drive it to Dar Es Salaam the next day! Phone calls were hastily made with Samwel in the back shouting into his phone. He had got a friend with a taxi to pick ...

... the year, apparently things really tighten up then - even tourists can't really smoke, drink, eat or engage in heavy petting on the streets during the day. I head to a luxury hotel at midday and sponge of their wifi and toutless beach. The night market we went to last night is fortunately still open, selling excellent pizzas - mince and chopped veg wrapped in a chapati. The food here and in Dar has been quite promising actually - a good bit of Indian and seafood to liven ...