We have spent the last 2 days traveling by bus.
I thought the bus rides in Malawi, Zambia and Botswana were nice and scrunched, but here, it's full to capacity, and then they add 20 more people....
literally...you're packed and then a person prepares themselves to sit inbetween two people pretending there is space...and literally wait for people to make it happen.
A man said to us on our way to Mbeya, very kindly, "Squish please!" 6 people in 3 seats is normal!
This is perhaps even more interesting for those with small butts....it is just expected that you don't mind sitting on 1/3 of a seat!
We were planning to take the Tazara train into Dar Es Salaam, but after a 30 minute wait at the counter watching the women doodle on her clipboard rather then look up, and another 10 minutes watching her look at the clipboard to find an "open cabin" it was announced the train had an accident in Zambia and wouldn't be coming for another 4 days.
This is transportation in Africa! Delay is a word you need to learn in Swahili in the back of our Lonely Planet!
Tomorrow, however, we take our last of 3 days of 12 hours bus rides...tomorrow is supposed to be 7, I expect 10...to get to Dar Es Salaam! From there, it will be a week in Zanzibar, a week in Egypt, a week in London, a week in Oslo Norway and then it is off to Spain for a while! It's good to have a plan! and it's very exciting to get to transportation that works! YAY!!!
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