Originally Posted by
minerman
Do you know where I could go without special vaccinations?
You're going to go around the world and limit your choices because you want to avoid "special" vaccinations?
Flu, Hep A, Typhus, Yellow Fever... I think those are going to be a good idea for starters. You can probably avoid Hep B providing, as my health care advisor brought up, you don't want to sample the locals. You can get through the vaccines in one day (exception being the Typhus, where the best option is the live vaccine, taken orally, each day for 5 days I think). Oh yeah, it hurts, and I felt rather not-normal for maybe a week.
Originally Posted by
minerman
The things you mentioned, I am actually interested in all of those things. Those all sound great as long as it's budget minded. I like a mix of adventure and kicking back in a big city, wining and dining with the locals.
I have strongly considered Tanz. in the past. I have kind of moved away from that because I hear Dar Es Salaam is a complete sh!t hole. I have a friend who spent time there and he said that it's absolutely terrible. Travel guides say that it is very unsafe. It seems like if you go to Tanz, you're going to end up there. It doesn't seem like a place I want to be.
So you want to do a world-wide pub crawl with an occasional outing to the country? I wouldn't focus too much on the merits or issues with any one place in a country, like Dar Salaam, or Nairobi for that matter. Try to get away from the big cities; you probably have big cities back home. Every big city seems to want to try and "be" something, and that something is becoming one big polyglop. Best food, best wine, best shows. People worldwide are migrating to the big cities. Spend time in the "middle" to see what's different. Just my 2 cents.