Today I'm in Stone Town, where there's actually a bit of internet access. Unfortunately, there's also 500 people who swarm you when you leave a shop, trying to sell there wears. We had to come here because it's the only place on the island that has ATMs/Traveler's Cheque exchanges and I needed to get money for my safari on Friday. I wasn't able to exchange money at the Dar es Salaam airport or the Zanzibar airport because all of the exchanges were closed. So, all of my money has been borrowed from the other volunteers.
Today we're just walking around Stone Town and then taking the daladala back to Jambiani (it's normally only a 1 hour drive, but today it will take us 3 hours on the daladala. The daladala is local transport that stops all along the route from Stone Town to Jambiani. It is basically a truck with a roof over the flatbed. People load their goats, bags of rice, etc. on the roof and the people ride in a crowded flatbed w/ makeshift seats lining the sides. I'm sure it'll be a memorable experience....that'll I'll be happy with only doing once. Riding the daladala only costs a little less than $2 where as taking a private cab back would be $50.
Lunch today is at a beautiful venue, the Africa House. We already ordered our food, since it typically takes them an hour to prepare. I'll have to post a picture later, because I've tried uploading it to this computer and it just won't work.
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