We got the train to Mwanza from Morogoro at around 11.30pm on Friday evening. The platform was buzzing with people and looking up into the rafters of the train station we saw rats running around trying to feed off the waste left from the last train load of passengers. We had booked three first class places on the train but had been told there were only two vacancies on the train so that two of us would have to share a bed. Our carriage numbers were written up ...

Well, they say that there's a sucker born every minute and m\by no means am I the exceotion to that rule. I was just charged 25,000 TSH for a taxi from the airport t o my hotel. Daylight robbery!!! For those that are not familiar with Tanzanian shillings, that's about twelve pounds when the going rate is 8000 TSH which about four quid. My hotel room is smnall and stuffy (as promised in the guide) but was the only one I could fine at a reasonable price with ...