A most delicious bit of information...

From most vantage points around Dar’s peninsula, be it while sipping coffee at Coral Beach Hotel, eating pizza on a Friday evening at the Yacht Club or drinking a glass of wine at Irish Pub at karaoke on a Wednesday, one will notice the somewhat ominous Twiga Cement factory across the bay on Waso Hill. Billows of smoke rise above the giant structure during the day, its silhouette outlined by flickering lights in the dark of night… and once upon a time, an intriguing gentleman by the name of Roald Dahl found himself in this very town as an employee of the Shell Oil Company. Dahl spent two years in Dar es Salaam, and the majestic structure is said to have been the inspiration for Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory in the beloved children’s story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. If only a chocolate river bubbled inside…