Yes, you can exchange them at some banks not all. I once tried to exchange pounds at Crdb bank but I realized they don't accept pounds, I managed to exchange at KCB bank quickly.

In short , you can exchange them in some banks!

Great to know - I was planning to take cash as I had read that there was a paucity of ATMs.

Most towns on the Safari circuit have Banks and also private 'Forex' shops.

I use the latter as the rates are often better, they post them outside on a board and give both buying and selling rates. Less form filling and quick. Your driver will know of a good one.

Mfuwe,

I think you will find the government shut all the Forex shops.

You now have to go to the bank and the rates are pretty much all the same.

Shep.

Thanks. I bet that won't last long. There was a good one about two doors down from Basecamp's office I used to use.

As we don't like staying in a queue waiting to be served, we took all our money out of ATM's. And we always found some.

And we payed mostly via creditcard.

I think I've only been unable to change £s on one occasion (remember to take your passport) where as I've found ATMs hit and miss, some cards accepted others not.

Magufuli closed down the forex bureaux at the end of 2018 because most weren't paying tax apparently and that may explain why they used to offer really good rates.

"Magufuli closed down the forex bureaux at the end of 2018"

That explains my misstook. I was last there in 2017 and Covid got in the way in 2019/20.

Yeah, typical of Magufuli 'the bulldozer' instead of trying to regulate the Forex he just got rid of them. There was one in Kariokoo that was open 24 hours a day.

I've been caught out a couple of times because of bank holidays like Karume day and not been able to change cash.