East Africa: 1. Zanzibar  |  2. Tanzania  |  3. Maasai Tribe  |  4. Great Lakes Region  |  5. Wildlife/Safari  |  6. African Minibus Names  |  7. South Africa: Cape Town  |  8. Unmade Beds...  |  Collected Emails No 1.  |  Collected Emails No 2.  |  Collected Emails No 3.  |  Collected Emails No 4.  |  Collected Emails No 5.  |  Collected Emails No 6.  |  Collected Emails No 7.
 

I spent more time in Tanzania than any other country on the trip. It is one of the largest, poorest...and most inspiring. Also very diverse in terms of landscape and climate.
 

   

Typical main highway.
Sorry for the blur, but this is a real place, and my only photo of the sign.
African travel: whenever your bus stops, it is besieged by vendors.
Always a mzungu (white man), never ignored.
Iringa.
What doesn't? Tanga.
Between Tanga and Lushoto.
Red earth mountains. Lushoto.
Lushoto.
African proverb: a minibus is never full.
Sandals made of old car tyres. Guaranteed for 40,000 miles.
Lushoto rural mountain landscape
Roof made of metal bases of tin cans. Lushoto.
This is not the English countryside, but Lushoto, Tanzania.
African football, Lushoto.
I was on this bus for 9 hours! Momba.
Vendors. Tanzania.
Tanzania.
Arusha.
Arusha.
Mt. Meru, overlooking football game in Arusha.
Goats head barbeque, Arusha.
Arusha.
What about a ladies room?
Dawn between Arusha and Ngorongoro
Dawn between Arusha and Ngorongoro
Lake Manyara National Park
Ngorongoro Crater (see safari pics).
Ngoronogoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater
Who said, "There are no tigers in Africa?" Arusha
Ingenious idea for using a water bottle to make a lighting system, Arusha
Boots for sale, Arusha
High security, low aesthetics. Arusha.
Lake Tanganyika, Kigoma.
Kigoma.
Kigoma station.
Kigoma
Between Kigoma and Morogoro
Train surfing.
This is Lina. She asked me to marry her...
Dawn in the middle of Tanzania.
Carrying his shop on his back. Tabora.
Roadside vegetable stall. Iringa.
A new kind of pool table. Iringa.
Iringa.
Baobab tree in Ruaha National Park
Ruaha.
Idyllic rainy season landscape in Ruaha.
Mwagusi Camp, Ruaha, where my niece, Rebecca, works.
Rebecca watching visiting Elephant herd on riverbed.
Rebecca, my niece.
Shop. Iringa.
Iringa.
Mbeya.
Mbeya.
Rainstorm, Mbeya.
Mbeya.
Clouds after the rain. Mbeya.
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