Today we went to Nzega by ourselves, without a guide! Last time we went there, one of the hospital chauffeurs drove us and guided us through town. However, after the last visit we felt brave enough to take the bus. After all it is a small town and quite close (just one hour). The best part was that it costed less than a seventh to take the bus than to have a private car with a chauffeur. A big plus!
Our plan was to try to upgrade our internet modem to a fast one (we failed on that one), to buy wine (succeeded!), to buy cookies, chocolate and chips (you never know who might visit) and to buy souvenirs (failed; Nzega is not such a tourist friendly town)...
We failed on 50 % of our goals but we had fun! We tried some new "Tanzanian" specialties; cake and petit choux. But we also tried some real Tanzanian specialties; sesame and syrup balls. They were delicious!
On the bus.
The not so modern bus. But at least we felt at home - travelling in a Scania bus!
Very colorful buses and Tanzanian women carrying their luggage the traditional way!
This is what the town looked like.
Food market!
More food!
The restaurant where we had lunch.
We had lunch at a very small restaurant, if we where in Sweden it would not have been called a restaurant and the Food and Health Department would certainly not have approved with their facilities. The kitchen is just to the right of Maria in the picture above. Even though the facilities were not the best, the light lunch (chapati and coke) we had was good. It only costed 1000 Tanzanian Shilling which is less than 5 Swedish crowns. Another big plus!
Look at all those eggs!
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