We opted for the cheap seats on the ferry, paying 20 dollars to have only a seat...no mattress or air conditioning. We purchased these tickets back in Stonetown and then wondered to the gardens near the harbour for some cheap dinner, as we had a couple hours to kill before the 9:30 departure. Earlier in the week we had dinner at the same spot, and for about 3 USD, one can be made into a stuffed turkey. It is all street food, and when we were finished, the general consensus was that on average we each consumed between 4 and 5 bugs, but what can you do...
After we ate, we moseyed back to the ticket office to collect our backpacks for boarding time. The guard at immigration was having the time of his life stamping our visas and passports and any other form of paper with us...and was loving every minute of it!
Finally we made it to the ship, and when we climbed up to the main deck, we started to look for our seats in the cheap section. For whatever reason, a worker came to us and quickly ushered us in a different direction, up some stairs, to an air-conditioned room with chairs and tables. Look out. We still are not sure how it happened, but we were not about to question it.
Keeping a short story short for once, we basically found ourselves asleep on the dirty floor until at about 3 am someone offered us a sleeping twin mat onto which Sara and I squeezed ourselves for the remainder of the trip. Dawn brought the harbour of Dar Es Salaam, and that was that.
We tried to look miserable in the photo, but I think some other look was achieved instead...you decide. See below for Zanzibar.
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