First, I’m happy to say the SWB Uganda staff survived our 2nd
Annual Youth festival. Five six-hour days and over 250 kids each day. Organized
chaos at its best. I’ll try and post more on that by the end of this coming
week (but let’s be honest all my posts are at least two weeks delayed).
So here’s yet another delayed post. Below you’ll find some
pictures from my 12 day trip to Tanzania! I’m currently in Jinja overlooking
the great Nile River with the fastest internet connection I have experienced in
the U.G. so I think it’s best if I post more pictures and write fewer words.
Tanzania is a country in East Africa and its eastern border
is formed by the Indian Ocean. I don’t
think the following pictures will do the beaches/islands I visited justice. We
spent about a week on island of Zanzibar and then a few nights on the island of Pemba – the most
isolated place I have ever been. I’m not exaggerating when I say there were
only a handful of people (read locals) on the beaches we visited. Mile
stretches of white sand beaches with no people. It was unbelievable. Not to
mention the island had no ATM machine…We literally ran out of money during our
stay there. Oops. Anyways, the trip was
unreal and I have nothing except for good things to say about Zanzibar. Well,
that’s a lie. The sea urchins there are horrible and extremely painful. I
stepped on a few and even though I went to a doctor here in Kampala to remove
them my feet are still pretty sore. At least they aren’t poisonous. At least I
don’t think they are…Hopefully I return to the states with both my feet.
Cheers!
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| One of the hotels we stayed at |
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| Cows on the beach |
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| 3v3 Mzungus (Whites) vs Maasai (tribe of Kenya/Tanzania) on the East coast of Zanzibar. We managed to play soccer with locals almost everyday on the various beaches we stayed/went to. |
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| Our pitch |
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| Stone Town, the main city of Zanzibar |
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| One of the thousand alleys of Stone Town |
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| An ancient door from the 19th century. The city had a lot of Indian, Arab , European and Persian (my people!!!) elements |
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| Real adults drinking nightly tea |
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| The beach where I stepped on the darn sea urchins. North coast of Zanzibar |
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| Cory and I practicing our synchronized swimming routine |
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| Cory, Katy, and I |
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| Sea urchins in the foot! |
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| Pemba Island |
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| Pondering life on another beach in Pemba |
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| Shell hunting |
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| We did a secret santa exchange for Christmas. My Christmas present this year was a squid from the local market. It was actually pretty tasty, but it was a tad cold. |
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| Sunset |
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| Sunset from our room in Pemba |
