Ok, we are in Zanzibar this beautiful island off the coast of Tanzania. Been here for 5 days now. Connectivity is an issue among other things. We got into Dar on a red eye from Cairo. I have some stories from my 36 hrs in egypt. Will get those up later. We took a charter flight for $65 to Stonetown, spent the night hear and then headed to Bwejuu on the S eastern coast to sit out Xmas. We felt we needed to have a place to hunker down over Xmas and made a 4 day reservation.
First of all Zanzibar is very hot, probably 40C with 95% humidity. So you are basically nonfunctional until you adjust to the heat. I am still adjusting. To add complications to the trip. Zanzibar draws it's power from Tanzania and the underwater electrical cables failed. So there has been no power to the island since we got here, that means there is no ac, no fans and most importantly no credit. So we are on an all cash economy with the ATM's intermittently down. Additionally most water sources require pumps, so you see guys humping 5gal water jugs everywhere. Everyone is scrambling to get generators to power their house, hotel, store....so things are a big chaotic and mostly hot. Just imagine yourself in Haiti in mid summer in 1823 and those are the basic conditions so far. The govt and minister guys in charge of power have allegedly left the island fearing civil unrest, because estimates for getting the power back on are 1 month to 1 year. Apparently they were 40 year old cables and had a 20 year life.We wanted africa, we got africa....
Will post more on the great place we stayed and the cast of characters we met over xmas.
Gotta run heading north to another beach.
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