10 December 2024
Day 2822 December 2019 in Tanzania ⋅ 🌧 30 °C

Last night was very hot in my tent. I slept heavily as I was tired but just had a towel on sleeping pad and nothing on me. I woke up at 4:45am because of call to prayer from local, very local, mosque. When I awoke, the tent was like a sauna but I couldn’t open the door or window flap because a horde of biting beasties and pesky critters would pour in like a biblical plague shortly followed by spiders to gobble them up. Then the black mamba would slither in to eat the spiders. And then, when she was finished with the spiders……

Spending the afternoon and night here on Indian Ocean coastline at lovely campsite near Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Tomorrow we’re off to Zanzibar for 4 days over the chrimbo. Weather is hot, especially in tent at nighttime.

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