As promised, pictures of the public transport here, the "daladala". In the one to the right, imagine 10 or more people packed in, just in that section of the van! It is an experience! And then imagine 20 or 30 total packed into the van! This one pictured has a nice soft seat between the front two seats, but on the return trip, I was lucky enough to sit on a hard divider, up high between the seats, praying I wouldn't whack my head on the windshield! And Tony was jammed in a tiny seat, right by the door, with people crammed and crowded all around him, including a Maasae woman with a rooster under her arm. And still the hustler on the van keeps shouting "Monduli, Monduli" to pack yet more people in....Unbelievable and richly bizarre to travel on public transport here!
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I hope you have a wonderful time in Zanzibar. It sounds so spectacularly romantic. We send you our love and best wishes.
tanzania is sooooo far away from here... how is it going? :)
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Keep this up it is wonderful to check in here and experience a little of what you two are up to so far away. I am so envious of your adventures I just may have to volunteer somewhere my self. Teresa is planning to teach sewing to some folks in El Salvador in January for a week or so.
Ohhhhh DEAR!! Those are similar to the kinds of vans they use in Mexico for public transport, but there they are called "combis".
I loved your story about going to DalaDala. Don't you wish you could understand everything that they were saying so that you could see why it is that they told you "Yes, yes, Daladala!" ?? That's an experience you won't forget any time soon! Love you lots!!! Gretch
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