Some of the old colonial buildings in Dar are really impressive, there's the old Parliament, the German hospital which used to be the President's Palace and two large churches right on the harbour, Catholic and Lutheran, both very well preserved. Everyone in Dar said we had to see the Askari Monument, commemorating the African troops who fought for the Germans against the British. Its kind of disappointing dwarfed by the big buildings now going up in downtown Dar. Dar is a real melting pot - African, Arabic, European mingle and mix in this quintessential African City. Bicycles and taxis fight for space on the very crowded streets.
People here are quite clearly poor, but crime is minimal and violent crime non-existent.
We naturally locked our car when we left it, but all our gear was in full view. Haile was confident nothing would disappear and nothing did. Interesting, in view of the commonly held believe that poverty is the prime reason for crime. In Tanzania people seem more interested in trying to sell you something than rob you of something. The Tanzanians too have suffered under the colonial yoke but seem to have shrugged it off.