We were suppose to be on a flight at 2am on Thursday morning, but it didn't show up. Air
Canada doesn't know why and Turkish Airline was no help (we were the only people in the airport). . .Since we are stuck in Arusha for an extra day I
figured I might as well put up a few more photos:)
Friday
May 23rd until Tuesday we stayed in Zanzibar Tanzania. The first day and night
we spent in Stone Town. It was so completely different then Arusha.
It is much more laid back, not nearly as many people and they are much
less pushy about getting you to buy their souvenir or ride in their taxis.
When
we first arrived we took a walking tour for about 2 hours (it covered most of
Stone Town which is a small area). Our tour guide, Said, was fantastic.
He was very knowledgeable. Mom really enjoyed learning about the
history of the town, and I thought all of the buildings and road ways were
neat. Many of the roads are not much more then 6 feet across. The
architecture is amazing. Since Zanzibar had been "taken over"
by so many different countries, the architecture varies. You see the Arab
and Indian influences the most. The motorcycles and bicycles are allowed
on the narrow roads, but the cars, tucks and vans have to stay to the larger
roads which surround the centre of the town. The the roads feel much
safer than Arusha, much less busy.
I
put in a few pictures of our hotel, and buildings/ streets from our tour.
This is the room with the "view" that Mom paid extra for. Needless to say we thought it would be a much different view. It was very noisy in the morning as this used this road to transport the ship containers across town from the port.
Our hotel, the second balcony was our room for the night.
I'm not sure in Canada we would be allowed to support our building this way. . .
We went through a market, including a huge fish
section. I forgot to take any pictures when we were in the center of it;
I think I was focusing too much on not being grossed out by the amount of dead
fish staring at me. (There was also a live chicken market apparently, but I
pre-warned the tour guide that taking me to a market full of birds was not a
good idea)
After
the Friday night we headed over to our beach resort, it was beautiful!
The pictures below is of the boat we took out to swim with the dolphins.
We didn't get any actual pictures of the dolphins:( It was extremely
wavy). We originally had a hard time locating the Dolphins. We were heading back towards shore when our guide got a phone call from
a fisherman who he had spoken to earlier. The fisherman told our guide,
they had spotted the Dolphins, so we headed back out . The waves were huge, especially for our little boat, you had to hold on to your seat so you wouldn't fall off. At this point I discovered I apparently get sick sick so I focused on not being sick instead of taking pictures.
We
did get to jump in and swim with the dolphins though. Mom went twice and
I went once, it was amazing! You jump in right in front of where they are
swimming and then they all swim down underneath you. There was about 30
dolphins swimming directly underneath us as we watched! Mom said she
tried to swim down and touch one but they just swam deeper. We think if
we had seen them earlier and had more time to swim we probably would have been
able to get closer, either way it was still outstanding!
We ended off our swimming with a couple jelly fish stings, but they were just little ones. Overall it was a lot of fun.
The view from our room and the pool was gorgeous:)
This man came to talk to us during our little beach photo shoot to show us the fish. .animal. .sea creature. . .? He had caught. We tried to ask what it was but he spoke Swahili and we speak English so there was a little language barrier. We managed to understand that he just caught it an was going to eat it (I stuck with my chicken and rice vs the mystery sea food).
Mom is still working on those jumping pictures, almost perfected them (just working on our facial expressions now. . . ;)
xo Emma and Julia
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