El Nino was partly to blame. But, all the same, the tendency has been one of rural exodus putting more pressure on urban centres and leading to problems of inadequate housing, solid and liquid waste disposal and social services. But these must be in the possession of vistors above the age of sixteen. The shilling, divded into hundred units called cents, is the currency. As a visitor you will be subjected to the exchange rules governing the Bureaux de Change, whose transcation are governed by market forces.
Credit cards have limited acceptance except at big hotels and banks.
Ask for a declaration form at the point of entry. Tanzania currency cannot be imported or exported. In the event of corrosing over to Zanzibar, the other part of the United Republic , you will be required to make your travel payments in foreign currency. There is religious tolerance. 3.30 p.m. Saturday form 8.30 a.m. to noon.