While doing some work in Dar es Salaam recently, I jumped on a ferry over to Zanzibar–about two hours off the coast of mainland Tanzania. Zanzibar is a fascinating little place and is a semi-autonomous country from Tanzania with which it forms the “United Republic of Tanzania”.
There are flights as well between Zanzibar (ZNZ) and […]
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Tanzanian Mbira
Published by December 3rd, 2007 in Africa, Dar es Salaam, Music, Photos, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. 2 CommentsWhen I can, I love to pick up local musical instruments from places I visit. While in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania a few months ago, I picked up an mbira, also known as a thumb piano. The mbira is one of the oldest instruments in Africa, created by the Shona people in present-day Zimbabwe, some […]
Same Flight Number in Both Directions
Published by November 23rd, 2007 in Africa, Airlines, Dar es Salaam, Flight numbering, KLM, Photos, Sudan and Tanzania. 2 CommentsI recently flew KLM Amsterdam (AMS)-Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (DAR) and noticed my itinerary had the same flight number for both legs, that is AMS-DAR is KL567 and DAR-AMS is KL567. I called American Express travel, from whom I bought the ticket, and the agent couldn’t explain why. I had thought that perhaps there was […]
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