Grasslands of the Masai Mara

Big elephant on the Masai Mara

This male elephant is big...really big. The arrow is pointing at his penis, not his foot.

All day safari on Masai Mara

Water buffaloes on a hillside.

Afternoon Safari on the Masai Mara

The Rift Valley

The Rift Valley just opens up before you.

Big footed bird at the Nairobi National Museum

This bird walks across lilly pads on the water, so it needs big and wide feet to distribute its weight as it walks.

Stonetown, Zanzibar at night

Mercury's, Stonetown, Zanzibar

Mercury's in Stonetown, Zanzibar...a good place to get a drink after you have survived the ferry ride over from Dar Es Salaam and the port entry into Zanzibar.

Slow Boat to Zanzibar

It was a mad crush to get on the boat. I paid $20 USD for a VIP ticket which didn't mean anything different that a resident ticket, except that I paid 20x as much, but you "have to" as a foreigner. As soon as the boat left port, everyone who had been sitting on benches, go up, laid down on the floor, and fell asleep on the floor for the entire ride to Zanzibar.

Puppies having Breakfast

Wooden Bicycle

Even the bike chain is made out of wood. This bicycle is in the Tanzania National Museum in Dar Es Salaam.

Tanzanian Museum - The Periodical is Temporarily Out of Use

The Library is Temporarily Out of Use.

The Periodical is Temporarily Out of Use.

Roadside Edibles in Tanzania

On the way to Dar Es Salaam from Moshi by bus, we stopped at a roadside reststop/eatery. They had this item plus other foods. Can you guess what this is?

Any ideas yet, after one bite?

It's an egg wrapped in meat paste and coated in battter, then deep fried!!!

Did I eat it??? Hell, yeah, I ate the whole greasy thing!

Mt. Kilimanjaro at sunset

Mt. Kilimanjaro at sunset

House of Lubricants

Entertainment at Club La Liga

At 1AM, Club La Liga started its entertainment which involved a woman dancing with a flaming bowl on her head.

Sally dancing at Club La Liga

Julia from Finland

Ed, you are disgusting...

And then there is Sally...

(the video is low quality because it was dark, but the audio is the best part)

To explain what she is saying in the video:

I told her that money is the key to life.

I mentioned that it's man's quest to see as many naked bottoms as possible. My reference for this comes from the BBC TV show Coupling: "When man invented fire, he didn’t say, 'hey, let’s cook', he said, 'great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.'"

And, a few days before this video was taken, my camera was sitting on a table by itself and flashing its green light getting ready to shut down and Sally thought it was filming her friend's breasts...????

If you watch carefully, you can catch a glimpse of Sally in the following video.

Me and Abir in Moshi, Tanzania

Abir and I enjoy beverages at the Kilimanjaro Crane Hotel in Moshi, Tanzania.

The Kick Beer

Ice cream so good, that it's on the menu twice

Chocolate and strawberry ice cream are so good that Deli Chez in Moshi lists them twice on their ice cream menu. See #145 and #162 or #144 and #163.

Minced Mutton Pizza

Offering bites and more

God Hates Corruption

At a money changing location in Moshi, Tanzania.

Muncipal Soft Drink Branding

Clock Tower

Post Office

Street signs

Everything municipal, even schools, is branded by Coke, and sometimes Pepsi in Moshi, Tanzania.

Children at the Orphanage in Tanzania

My camera has a video option. I started to use the video feature and the children started to ham it up for the camera, especially when I showed them the videos.

Blowing Up a Balloon

I visited an AIDS orphanage while I was in Tanzania. These children had mothers and fathers who had died of AIDS.

One child, in particular, played non-stop with a balloon that was brought to him. He is in mid-inhale, trying to blow up the balloon in the lower picture.

So if you add Altar Wine and Konyagi together, what do you get???

If you add Altar Wine and Konyagi together, you get a concoction I like to call "Heaven and Hell."
I do not recommend you try this combination yourself, especially if you bias the mix towards Konyagi...it will be like releasing the Devil into Heaven.

Konyagi

Tanzania's version of firewater (ie. grain alcohol)...it even has flames on the label.

It tastes a little like gin....or whatever you add it to...Fanta Passion soda, orange juice, etc.

Altar Wine!!!!????!!!

I found this at the Kilmanjaro Supermarket in Moshi, Tanzania...tasted like grape juice.

A Brit, an American, an Austrailan and four beers found in Tanzania

Me with Mt. Kilimanjaro in the background

Banana Beer on Mt Kilimanjaro

Banana beer is served in buckets at about $.50 USD. You drink from the bucket and pass it around.
(My shorts are wet because I just went swimming in the waterfall and I am wearing my swimming trucks under my shorts.)

Banana beer is made from fermented bananas, millet flour, and water. There is a layer of brown detritus floating on the top. This stick is used to stir the mix which is in buckets in a corner behind the bar. The beer is ladled out of the buckets using the large scoop cup.

Waterfall on Mt Kilimanjaro

Making coffee on Mt Kilimanjaro

Crushing the raw coffee beans to remove the hard shell abound the bean.

Roasting coffee beans

Crushing the roasted coffee beans

Mt Kilimanjaro almost swallowed me up

I was walking along a trail on Mt. Kilimanjaro, when the trail disintegrated under my feet. My right leg made this hole. The other side of the trial is nothing but down...

How was your Monday after Thanksgiving?

I have been sitting at work all day with this song in my head:

All By Myself by Eric Carmen

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And makin' love was just for fun
Those days are gone

Livin' alone
I think of all the friends I've known
But when I dial the telephone
Nobody's home

All by myself
Don't wanna be, all by myself anymore
All by myself
Don't wanna live, all by myself anymore

Hard to be sure
Sometimes I feel so insecure
And love so distant and obscure
Remains the cure

All by myself
Don't wanna be, all by myself anymore
All by myself
Don't wanna live, all by myself anymore

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And makin' love was just for fun
Those days are gone

All by myself
Don't wanna be, all by myself anymore
All by myself
Don't wanna live, all by myself anymore

All by myself
Don't wanna be, all by myself anymore
All by myself
Don't wanna live, all by myself anymore

The best version of it is at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3j_fdSpkmE