Dar es Salaam Getting Around

Getting Around

By taxis (expensive at average 4000 shillings a trip) or on a Dalla-Dalla, which is a shared taxi, basically a mini-bus, seating (and standing) up to 25 people! Taxi fares are not fixed. A price must be negotiated before your begin traveling, or the price will be considerablly higher once you reach your destination. It is not customary to tip your driver. From the airport, taxis cost around TSH 10000 (negotiable to around TSH 8000, or TSH5000 if you walk 200 meters and hail one on the side of the road) to go to city center. Dalla-Dallas can be stressful to tourists who do not know where they are going and do not speak any Kiswahili. They tend to be very crowded and you must guard your belongings, but they are perfectly navigatable by foreigners. The fare is 200 shillings per passenger. To request a stop (they are not marked), simply yell out, "Shusha!" (pronounced SHOO-sha).