Well, here we are, settling in to our new home in Dodoma! The first impression of Tanzania was the heat, when we arrived early on Tuesday morning in Dar es Salaam. Apparently, we have arrived just at the start of the "hot season" and the temperatures have soared in the past week. It has made us all very sleepy and after our long journey, we all kept falling asleep all over our new house for the first 2 days! Next week, we won't have the excuse of the overnight travels, so we'll just have to adapt instead!
We were met by the MAF plane in Dar, ready to take us to Dodoma. This was a huge advantage compared to the other travel option of a bumpy 8-hour bus ride across Tanzania. Sitting on the cool plane, we watched the vast country of Tanzania slide away underneath us. There are such vast areas of open country, populated now and again by small, spread-out villages, appearing on the hot, orangey-brown land. Then we flew over some sharp hills, where there was more green in evidence and then back over the dry, open plains. It certainly brought home to us the difference that MAF can make, as it took less than an hour and a half to arrive at our new home from Dar and we arrived far less exhausted than we would have if we'd taken the bus, with 2 small children, 8 suitcases, 2 car seats, 5 pieces of hand luggage and a pram!!
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