Our holiday weekend has come to an end. It is now time to return to adventure. It's been a lovely few day, but now I'm looking forward to continue the journey.
We drive back to Stone Town and get there in perfect time for the ferry. Almost so perfect there shouldn't be enough time to enjoy the very fancy lounge. Well comfy furniture and air con was the fancy part, but since that is rare these days you try to get the most out of it. Quickly it turned out there should be enough time to enjoy. Our ferry had some problems and couldn't leave for Dar Es Salaam. We were to wait for another one to depart two hours later. Suddenly everyone disappeared to walk around and have a last look at Stone Town, and I was left looking after our luggage. Our guide that volunteered to do that, also disappeared. It was no problem tho, more than I started to get hungry.
One of my fellow passengers came back and took my place and let me go have lunch. When I met up with the rest of the group at Mercury Restaurant they were still waiting for their food. There was no time for me to order, and one of the girls kindly offered to share hers with me, if she'd ever get it.
After putting a bit of pressure on the staff we finally got the food, got to eat it and pay as we saw the ferry coming to dock.
The ferry was smaller than the one coming here and the number of passengers many more. When it was full, there was still hordes of people getting onboard. There were people everywhere, on floors, in stairs, sitting, standing, laying. I hade a guys head on my foot.
Not so sure of the safety of that trip, but we did make t safely to the mainland.
The systems of boarding and disembarking was a bit chaotic and different, and when we finally got the group together we had to walk 1-1,5 km to a new ferry. Here the system was if possible even worse. And the same thing, it was probably very overloaded.
It only took a few minutes to cross the water this time and on the other side a minibus was waiting for us to take us the last short trip to the camp.
Since we arrived later than expected due to the ferry problems it was even nicer to find all our tents up and the dinner already on its way.
I asked our "Captain" who put our tents up if I should take it personally since five tents were placed in a group to the right and my tent was standing all alone to the left!? :)
I choose to believe it was special to be there. Hahahaha!
We gathered in the bar for a drink after a long days travelling before dinner was ready.
Today one family member is leaving us and three new are added. So the family has grown to 18 + our 2 guides/cook/driver.
After dinner and a briefing we went back to the bar for a farewell drink to our friend leaving.
Then it was time for a shower to try and refresh and then crawl in to what felt like another hot night.
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