Mood status: Heart-racing!
Location: Streets of Zanzibar, Tanzania
We were just in a wild car chase!!!
The craziest thing just happened. A van was driving extremely
erratically and hit our maxi-taxi, and then sped off! So the driver – who was
in charge of 14 shocked and stunned tourists - decided to give chase and began
swerving, driving on the wrong side of the road and cutting corners at
ridiculous speeds!
*Indicative only
As we were chasing the van, we saw people jumping out of the back and
legging it. Maybe about 10 minutes into the chase, the van veered off the road
and into a ditch, which meant that we were able to come up behind him and block
him in.
Our driver was SO angry by this stage. He got out of the taxi, went up
to the other driver and yanked him out of the drivers seat and strangely – put
him in the back of the maxi-taxi with all of us there! He then yelled something
out in Swahili to the van driver who was clearly drugged up on something,
yanked him back out of the taxi and started pushing him around. By this stage,
a large group of locals had started congregating around the scene trying get in
on all the action.
Another taxi was called for us and so we missed out on all the drama
that would have unfolded between our other taxi driver and the van driver who
had made their way to the police station.
We’re all safe thank God and wouldn’t ever want to be in that situation
again, but to say the very least, it was probably the most thrilling thing to
have happened to us on our trip!
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