The Travels of Päivi and Santeri

We travel without malaria medication because no preventive medication helps for the lethal cerebral malaria. Only hospitals can cure severe P. falciparum.

There are three main reasons why people travel to Africa: volunteering, charity, and safari.

Travelling to Dar is pretty straightforward but getting away is challenging unless you want to spend a lot of money on flights or ride the potholed roads on crappy buses.

Dar Es Salaam is easy to walk and does not feel like a really African city except in one thing: public nose-picking.