We left our flat in Dar at 9:15 to go to the airport. We had been told by some other travellers that the small planes are in Terminal 3, so we arrived at Terminal 3, and thought it was a bit big but went in anyway. When we were inside, we asked the Air Tanzania person where Coastal Aviation was; she said Terminal 3 is where Air Tanzania flies the Dreamliner from so we got back in our Uber and went to Terminal 1.
When we arrived at Terminal one, it was a lot more like what I had expected there were 2 x-ray machines and it was not very big. We found the Coastal Aviation office and they took our bags and then we went to wait. After a half hour wait we got called to board the plane. We waited in the queue, but there were only 3 other people so you couldn’t call it a queue,/ but we waited to board the plane.
After a 30 second wait maybe even shorter we had gotten our tickets checked, and were walking to the plane. I was not expecting what it would be like.There were about 100 planes all the same model, all one propeller, and they all were different airlines. Each airline had about 3 planes and I don’t understand how they all stay in business.
We boarded the plane (that had 12 seats) and me and my brother immediately went to get our seats at the front of the plane. We put our seat belts on and we were off. Usually you get the briefing via speakers but here the pilot turned around and spoke to us. It was really cool as there was no door between the pilot and us so we could see what they were doing. The plane was not pressurised so we could not go that high but we still went above the clouds. When we were looking out the window there were some small islands with nothing in them apart from trees but there was also the vast Indian Ocean. When the journey was coming to an end we saw the Mafia Airport; it was a runway 20 meters long and a building with one room and one x-ray machine and a table to get your bags.
If you actually want to read about Mafia island look at my other Mafia Island posts.
We stayed at Juani Beach Bungalows.
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