Day 08 : Direction Dar el Salam beaches
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At 7am we took the truck for an 8hrs drive to Dar el Salam. Everyone is so excited at the taught of seeing the Indian ocean. After spending a week on constant dust and dirt, we cannot be more thankful to go to the seaside. It's amazing to see the landscape evolving. The earth go from deep red to black, to beige, to red again... Trees go from Baobab, to palm tree.
It must be laundry day! Near by every village we pass you can see women washing traditionally all their laundry. And what make it so spectacular is the meters and meters of beautiful bright coloured clothing all over the grass (drying system, very straight forward!)
We finally arrive in Dar after a long drive, direction the supermarket for some supplies. As we all finished the shopping the truck went towards the exit gate, but there, big problem, they didn't wanted to let us go. On entry they did not gave us the card to present while going out. As we learnt in many situation, when there is no process already establish, most of African do not know how to deal with the situation. The only solution they found is to call armed police to take away our cook Simon who was dealing with the situation. We never thought to be stranded in an African supermarket! After a call from our tour leader the cops let us go. We arrived to the beach resort where a modest hut facing the beach was there for us.
Location:Livingstone,Zambia
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