02/08/2025
DGS Tanzania 2025 Blog: Day 19
Aidan
For the more organised among us, our final day at st Dominic’s started as had every other. As for myself, the early hours of the morning were largely consumed by a frantic attempt to repack my suitcase, now with an additional kilo or so of assorted wares I had purchased from the market, Mr Tito’s and the Mwanza Art Gallery.
After eating breakfast and tutting at the few other team members who had been marginally more disorganised than myself, it was time to give our goodbyes and final thanks to Julie and to the drivers, before setting off for Mwanza airport.
Mwanza airport really was something special. No walls until passport control, a random Ikea-style display kitchen (not visibly for sale) plonked in the terminal and a small coffee counter with baked goods. As barebones as it may sound, at least it’s not East Midlands Parkway.
After a precision air prop plane hop to Kilimanjaro national airport, we took a coach through Arusha to the beautiful Marangu Hotel- our final outpost before we were to begin the final stage of the trip- Kilimanjaro.
