Friday, 1 December 2017

Day 1 - Travelling to Tanzania

Today my husband Pete and I, left home to travel to Tanzania for a 2 week holiday. Our itinerary was as follows

1st Dec 2017 - fly LHR to Dar via Nairobi with Kenya Airways 
2nd Dec - Arrive Dar about 8.30am and transfer to Southern Sun Hotel in Dar for a day at rest.
3rd Dec - Early morning flight with Coastal to Ruaha. 
3rd -7th Dec - Stay at Old Mdonya River Camp in Ruaha

7th Dec - Mid morning flight to Selous with Coastal

7th- 11th Dec - Stay at Lake Manze Camp in Selous

11th Dec - lunchtime flight to Zanzibar via Dar

11th -16th  - Stay Pongwe Beach Hotel on Zanzibar

16th  flight home to LHR via Doha with Qatar.

Our Kenya Airways flight left LHR at 5.25pm and arrived at Nairobi about 8 hours later. We then had time for a quick coffee and freshen up before boarding our second flight from Nairobi to Dar where we landed at about 8.15am local time.

Once we had disembarked the plane we quickly cleared immigration as we already had our visas, collected our luggage and met our driver who drove us to the Southern Sun Hotel.

Traffic was bad in Dar at that time of the morning and so the journey took about an hour.

On arrival at the Southern Sun we were greeted with a complimentary cold drink and quickly checked in. Our room was ready so we went straight up.

The room was very good with everything we required (and more!). We had basically packed everything we would need for our one night stay here, in our hand luggage so unpacking took all of about 2 minutes. We then drew the curtains and retired to bed to catch up on some sleep.

After several hours sleep we woke refreshed and decided to make use of the hotel swimming pool. This was lovely and we were the only ones using it for most of the afternoon.

The pool - lovely and warm

The hotel had a brasserie which served food from 11am to 11pm so about 5.30pm we decided to get a meal before retiring to bed for the night as we had an early start the following morning.





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