Tanzania

We crossed into Tanzania in the morning of 30 September and just a few meters accross the border seems like someone pressed the FFW button, we were in a country at least 15 years ahead! There were good roads, the towns actually had asphalt streets, there were shops, not only shacks and a much bisser variety of things to buy, the people looked chubbier and healthier, with newer clothes and happier faces. The secnery also changed dramatically, from the dry reddish bare scenery to lush green plantations, beautiful tea estates (picture below), banana plantations, corn, etc. Looked like somepone was actually working the land and was making a decent living out of it.
We made our way slowly North with amazing and changing scenery. The small town of Iringa surprised us with a lovely busy morning, the market full of people, women of all kinds of tribes in beutiful colours shining in the sun.
We are now in Dar es Salaam (Place of Heaven) its the biggest city we have seen so far in Africa with a lot of traffick and constant construction. However, amid the rising new concrete buildings (quite ugly...) are hidden nostalgic 18th century buildings with carved facade and tales of the past.
We will be heading for Zanzibar tomorrow, looking forward to relaxing a couple of days on the beach and plunging into 1001 night into this former sultanate. Its wealth came mostly from slave trade though, which puts an uneasy feeling...