Daladala

10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE DALADALA (:= local bus)

(i) If you think the daladala is full... well, it is longer not! This never happens...

(ii) If you are told the journey will take 20 minutes, it is meant in a very lucky case. You need to take into account the eventuality of unpredicted breaks:

    - The oil can suddenly finish

    - Parts of the daladala (meaning tyre, engine, stealing wheel, doors, windows, etc.) can get broken

    - The police traffic can stop you for some inspections (request of some strange permits, checking security measures, counting the passengers in excess, etc.). The discussion about the price to pay can take particularly long.

    - Break to fight with the driver of another daladala, about who have stolen to whom some opportunities of business (more passengers, transports of deals, etc.).

(iii) Look at the top! Attention, something can always fall down on you (tomatoes, chickens, charcoal, but even other more potentially painful objects like a saw or a hammer).

(iv) If you see pipes, mattresses, boards, etc. don't worry! It is still your daladala, and not a vehicle for transporting loads.

(v) Don't wear white clothes. People can walk on you, the Fanta of the neighbor can spill on your shirt in a sudden breaking, children can be interested in touching you, ... without calculating dust of the road, smoke of the engine, and so on.

(vi) If it rains, be sure you have an umbrella with you. You never know...

(vii) On the daladala you can find all the kinds of smells of Tanzania: mad, fertilizers, and sweat of the farm, local maize and/or bamboo alcohol, intensive fragrance of whom goes to the city to meet the new girlfriend...

(viii) The company is guarantee!

(ix) At some point, whatever can happen, whenever it takes, you will arrive at your destination! The daladala staff are extremely expert in fixing any kind of problem!

(x) The daladala is a true African adventure experience!