To Zanzibar!

Today we took off on the ferry for Zanzibar (~45 miles off the coast of Dar) at 7:00AM.  It was a fun ride!  And seeing Zanzibar materialize on the horizon wasn’t half bad either.  The architecture here reminds me of picture I have seen of Venice, Italy.  It is beautiful!  We ported at Stone Town (the oldest city still around in Eastern Africa), which has building made of stone.  We toured all over it, visiting markets, seeing Suny children come out of their school in droves and we ate some very delicious food.  Coconut bread is especially good.  Probably the tastiest bread I have had apart from what I’ve eaten at Rainbow Trail Lutheran Camp, my second home.  I need to find a recipe for it!

I remember walking through an old fish/meat market.  I saw large fish, octopus, barricuda, etc.  I even saw a guy cutting up a recently butchered goat.  He was cutting up the tongue out of its bloody head!  It was startling to me, to say the least.  And there were so many people!  From old women buying raw fish by the dozen to  young vendors that would keep visciously getting in your way to sell you their products, “sitaki hapana asante” is the correct response to them.  But it was all very fun, nonetheless. 

Tonight we ate at the night market.  The night market is exactly what it sounds like… people cook food and try to sell it; from delicious nutella/banana pizzas to grilled meat on a skewer.  It was very exciting.  I wore my grass hat that was made for me on the Spice Tour that we did in the afternoon (during which we all sampled quite a bit of delicious fruit and spices!) and was hilariously barraded by people trying to sell me their food.  They thought I was pure ‘mzungu’ material because of it, although I bargained quite well with them.  You have to be careful of the ones that try to physically pull you over to their table because when you get there and order food, handing them the money for it, they disappear.  In return you get nothing, no food with money lost.  That didn’t happen to me or to anyone else in the group, but Laura Heggs warned us about it just prior to heading there.

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