On Saturday i finally left Zanzibar. I had my ticket for 11:00 am and arrived at 10:30 just to be safe. For two hours i sat in the hot sun, jumping up every time a ferry came to the dock to see if it was mine, just to be told that it hadn't arrived yet. After two hours of this the attendant finally told me that my ferry had been canceled the day before. how nice of him to finally tell me this. i still don't understand exactly what happened, but somehow i was the only person scheduled for this particular ferry and then it broke down, but announce it to the public? no why do that, make us, or i, figure it out on my own. but i was able to catch a ferry later that afternoon. this particular ferry got a bunch of fishing nets caught on it's propellers so we had to stop in open water for an hour while they untangled them. All this time everyone around me is getting very sea sick. thankfully i was seated close to a window, so i could look out at the horizon, but my stomach was still a bit wobbly, and the smell of vomit does nothing to calm an upset stomach. but i made it, and i am back on solid ground.
Now i am in Dar es Salaam. I have been here for two days and unfortunately have gotten a bit sick. In Zanzibar i don't think i was as careful as i should have been with the water, and now i have dysentery, not so fun. in Kenya you can go to the pharmacy and get pretty much anything you need without a doctors prescription. so when i know i have eaten something bad, or even if i have a positive malaria test, but not prescription from a doctor, i can just go to the pharmacy and tell them what is wrong, or what kind of drugs i want, and they hand them over. when i went to the pharmacy here, they told me straight off that they can't give out anti biotics without a prescription. but after a little bit of begging and pleading thankfully they handed them over. So hopefully i start feeling better in the next couple of days.
Originally i was going to take the train down to Zambia and Malawi, which someday i hope to still do, but time wise it was out of my grasp. partly because i went to Zanzibar and got swept away in the history and beauty of the place forgetting that i needed to get on with my trip, but i don't regret that, i had a wonderful time there. So i have decided to fly to Rwanda tomorrow and stay there for a couple of days and make my way back to Kenya from there. I know that when many people hear the name Rwanda they think of all the terrible fighting that happened there, but now it is quite a safe place to visit, and a bit less touristy then where i have been which will be so nice. From Rwanda i was going to take a bus through Uganda and then on to Nairobi, but now Uganda has Ebola, so i am not sure how i will get back. i am waiting to see how bad the Ebola is when i am closer to going and then make a decision. i don't really want to get Ebola.
Another short and sweet entry. hope that everyone is well, and love to you all!
suz
"Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages."
Dave Berry
Now i am in Dar es Salaam. I have been here for two days and unfortunately have gotten a bit sick. In Zanzibar i don't think i was as careful as i should have been with the water, and now i have dysentery, not so fun. in Kenya you can go to the pharmacy and get pretty much anything you need without a doctors prescription. so when i know i have eaten something bad, or even if i have a positive malaria test, but not prescription from a doctor, i can just go to the pharmacy and tell them what is wrong, or what kind of drugs i want, and they hand them over. when i went to the pharmacy here, they told me straight off that they can't give out anti biotics without a prescription. but after a little bit of begging and pleading thankfully they handed them over. So hopefully i start feeling better in the next couple of days.
Originally i was going to take the train down to Zambia and Malawi, which someday i hope to still do, but time wise it was out of my grasp. partly because i went to Zanzibar and got swept away in the history and beauty of the place forgetting that i needed to get on with my trip, but i don't regret that, i had a wonderful time there. So i have decided to fly to Rwanda tomorrow and stay there for a couple of days and make my way back to Kenya from there. I know that when many people hear the name Rwanda they think of all the terrible fighting that happened there, but now it is quite a safe place to visit, and a bit less touristy then where i have been which will be so nice. From Rwanda i was going to take a bus through Uganda and then on to Nairobi, but now Uganda has Ebola, so i am not sure how i will get back. i am waiting to see how bad the Ebola is when i am closer to going and then make a decision. i don't really want to get Ebola.
Another short and sweet entry. hope that everyone is well, and love to you all!
suz
"Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages."
Dave Berry
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