Mboto drove us to the bus station at 5am. The bus station was chaotic. We get on the bus with help of Mboto. All the cross-country buses are pretty nice charter buses. The bus ride took 16.5 hours.
MwanzaàShinyangaàSingidaàManyoniàDodomaàMorogoroàDar es Salaam.
Most of the road towards Dar es Salaam was paved. We made a couple of stops along the way as people would get off or new people would get on. I felt a little nauseated and slept most the time. Sometimes we would make quick bathroom breaks, but we found out quickly that these breaks would be only 5 minutes, and were somewhat scared to be left behind. At the stops, people would raise up food and drinks to sell and people on the bus would buy them out the window of the bus.
Craziest thing seen on the bus: man comes on the bus with a live chicken in a box. A hole was cut out of the side of the box for the head of the chicken. And with different people coming on and off the bus, you can imagine the variety of smells. ;)
A couple of times throughout the trip, the bus company was nice enough to give us “glucose biscuits” and juice.
We arrived at Dar at 10:30pm. As we got off the bus, taxi drivers bombarded us. As I’m holding my bag, a guy literally reaches his hand into my bag twice! I couldn’t believe it. Then as we were talking to another taxi driver, another guy tried to unzip Natalie’s backpack on her back while we were staring at him! We finally lowered the cost of the taxi to 10,000 TSh and arrived at our hotel at 11pm.
14,000 TSH (~$10)– not bad for a few hours of sleep. Too tired to shower, I passed out.
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