Paje and our Dalla Dalla ride

We spent Christmas on the East coast of Zanzibar in a town called Paje.

What is it about beaches that makes prices double??? Ha ha....I know, I know, it was all worth it though. The beach was beautiful! White sand, blue green water....unfortunately, the tide goes out like a kilometer, and it was out during the day so if you wanted to swim, you're in for a long hike.


Once the tide came in though, man it was nice.

We ended up going back to Stone town a day early. And since we had such a fiasco going out there with the taxi drivers, we thought we'd take the local Dalla Dalla back. It's basically a truck with 2 benches and you throw your stuff on the roof.

After haggling with 2 trucks we finally got a guy to agree to our 1900 shillings for both of us, so up our bags went and into the truck we go. It was packed, it was smokey from the exhaust, but man was it fun!!! These ways of travelling are so much more fun than boring old buses.