Wake up in Jinja, take the local bus for 3 hours to Kampala. It's supposed to be an hour long but this is Africa. Find a taxi to take us to the airport, Ugandan police threaten arrest for stepping over an unassuming two foot rope barrier, get in the cab, get the hell out. We've found the one slow cab driver in East Africa, and barely make the flight. Fly out of Entebbe, Uganda, seeing the oceanic Lake Victoria roll out below us. Fly into Nairobi Airport, the power is out. Fly to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, spotting Mt Kilimanjaro along the way, emerging very blue and very far and very clearly above the clouds. I could have probably spotted trekkers at the summit, seemingly.
Land in Dar, cab to a hotel. It's night. It's hot. Grab a beer at a hotel rooftop overlooking the bay, as container ships and traditional dhow fishing boats pass by. And this way of getting to Dar was the easy way. We decide to sleep in and catch a later ferry the next day. Zanzibar sounds fantastic and all, but sometimes so does sleep.
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