The flights from London to Tanzania were much different than the flights to London. We arrived into Dar es Salam, Tanzania after an all night 10 hour flight from London. The Dar es Salam airport is an open air airport on the banks of the Indian ocean. You can imagine how much fun waiting in line for our visas and customs was. After Leaving security we had to get new tickets and recheck in on a different airline. They would only allow us 1 checked bag each! Between the 4 of us we had 13 pieces of luggage. This flight costed the group 240,000 TSH. I'll let you work the conversion rate on that! After mutliple trips to the banco de conversion we ran to our terminal and arrived in Mwanza, Tanzania where Tim Jarvis, Sarah's father, was there ready to pick us up from the Mwanza airport.
The Mwanza airport was smaller than the average American home. It contained a few rooms and the "baggage claim" was a number of African men running from the belly of the plane then coming and asking you if the bag belonged to you.
We have only been in the Jarvis home for about 24 hours, but they are already making us feel at home with delicious cooking and amazing stories from 15 years of Tanzanian Missions. We are truly blessed to have an opportunity to visit this country and be treated to such great company.
In the next week we plan to spend time at the a few Albino orphanages including, Jellies, visit a local open air market in Mwanza, have a full day Safari in the Serengeti Game Reserve, tour the Nile Perch store, eat Nile Perch, play with the local children, and drive to Nairobi Kenya.
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