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 | | I spent mornings wandering from my hotel, the Holiday Inn, to the downtown area, perched on a bluff overlooking the water - the city sits both on the Indian Ocean and at the confluence of three rivers. |
 | | Walking along Avenida Julius Nyerere, a main drag, I passed strings of restored lberian-style mansions, all pastel-pink, yellow and fuchsia, with wide, wraparound wrought-iron balconies, roofs of brown South American tiles and gardens of palm fronds and flame trees. |
 | | It was like an African St-Tropez, complete with exquisitely coiffed matrons in absurdly high heels walking ridiculously small white dogs. |
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