giraffes, elephants and the trip to Dar

The journey from sumbawanga to dar es salaam was both fun and a bitch. It took about 8 hours from sumbawanga to Mbeya by a really bumpy bus ride. I had to overnight in mbeya and the next morning i caught a 7 am bus ride to the coastal city of dar es salaam. the bus ride was 12 hours, and although super long it was quite interesting. THe landscape of tanzania is just beautiful with rolling hills, moutains and the typical african plains. It was so awesome and I even got to see wildlife. Coasting the road, we saw wild african elephants--herds of them crossing the street huge ivory tusks and all. On some stretches I got glimpses of herds of giraffes grazing on trees. It was just amazing to see all this wildlife as we were casually mkaing our way to dar. I arrived in dar es salaam late last night and am staying at the safari inn. Not that bad of aplace. tomm i wil head out to zanzibar for a few days before flying out to johannesburg on Monday.