By Sea
Plan your Trip - Getting Around
When choosing a ferry company to travel with, make sure that the company is registered and reputable. For those whose budget does not accomodate flying, travelling by sea or lake is often the only option when travelling to places on the Swahili Coast and around the lakeshores of Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa. Most ferry companies are privately owned and run, and comply with national safety regulations and procedures. Be sure, when choosing a ferry company to travel with, to ask the advice and recommendations of other travellers, and to use a company that has an office and is listed in tourism directories.
Ferries connecting Dar es Salaam with Zanzibar and Pemba leave daily from the harbour, and enough companies make the trip throughout the day to fit most schedules.
The trip from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar costs between US$30 and US$45 one-way and takes a little less than two hours. It's a pleasant way to see surrounding islands and enter Stone Town like the old explorers.
Ferries also run on Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, and Lake Nyasa, and shaded deck seating is often the most pleasant – and spacious – way to go.
Customer Testimonials
Shonali Laha and Sumitra Mukherjee told us:
A fantastic safari experience, there are no places like Serengeti and Ngorongoro in the world. The safari driver/guide was superb and interpreter of the East African wildlife.We are planning to be back again soon. Cheers! keep it up.
Vellut B told us:
The guide and the porters were amazingly helpful and knowledgeable, the cook as wonderful with great dishes, we were just lucky!Would highly recommend Bobby Tours.
Mikkel Thorup told us:
Me and my girlfriend had a wonderful 9 day safari seeing everything would had imagined, and much more. The driver was very experienced and good at spotting wildlife. We saw more than most other people we met at the camps. Our trip was a mixed lodge and camp safari. We actually got better food at the camp where our cook made fresh food for us. At the lodges it was buffets.
A fantastic safari experience, there are no places like Serengeti and Ngorongoro in the world. The safari driver/guide was superb and interpreter of the East African wildlife.We are planning to be back again soon. Cheers! keep it up.
Vellut B told us:
The guide and the porters were amazingly helpful and knowledgeable, the cook as wonderful with great dishes, we were just lucky!Would highly recommend Bobby Tours.
Mikkel Thorup told us:
Me and my girlfriend had a wonderful 9 day safari seeing everything would had imagined, and much more. The driver was very experienced and good at spotting wildlife. We saw more than most other people we met at the camps. Our trip was a mixed lodge and camp safari. We actually got better food at the camp where our cook made fresh food for us. At the lodges it was buffets.
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