We spent Tuesday evening at the restaurant downstairs at the hostel, playing cards with a couple from London (Social Worker and English Teacher) and a guy from New York who already knew everything so why he bothered to talk to us I don’t know. He really annoyed Helen, but for some reason she insisted on joining him from breakfast the following morning, and regretted it straight away!
We left the hostel early Wednesday morning and got a dalla-dalla (small crazy bus) towards a place called Mbagala, south of Dar. From there we got off at a manic interchange and eventually negotiated to get into a smaller dalla-dalla (which usually have a driver and at least 1 or 2 conductors who tout for passengers and collect money, etc). We set off towards Nyamisati to get a boat to Mafia (a small island off the coast of Tanzania). Along the way we picked up and dropped off lots of passengers, ran out of petrol and picked up a couple of guys with a huge pile of some kind of root vegetable (we later found out these were cassavas). When we arrived I was expecting a a medium sized town but Nyamisati was tiny, pretty much the boat was the only thing there. A Tanzanian man helped us buy tickets and in return we bought his dinner before we set off on the 4 hour journey to Mafia. It was pretty uncomfortable the whole journey, but we stayed dry and Helen had a few naps.
The Lodge we are staying at is beautiful, we are camping and having dinner at the cliff top shack.
We spent all Thursday by the beach, very lazy - makes a nice change from working everyday. Had rough night in tent which was very hot and humid, Helen slept outside for a time, she is braver than me!
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