Pics from Dar Es Salaam and Stone Town

Here is the view of Dar from our balcony I wrote about last blog post. It didn't look so scary in the morning!


Tom and I ducked into the back area of this stall to get away from the rain that came down while we were looking through the fish market in Dar. This guy was happy to help us out and pitch to us some of the craziest shells I've ever seen.


Tom at the National Museum in Dar. This garden was by far my favorite part. These little concrete seats were so cool....but overlooked basically nothing except the tree. Note the sticks on the left holding up the tin sheets they used for walls around the garden.


Picture #1 from a market in Dar. This market was set up in an old conference center building and was totally crazy because you kinda felt like you were walking into a rap concert but instead you get a lot of stalls like these. We walked upstairs and I shot this down on all the buckets one guy was selling.


Picture #2 from the market in Dar. These really cool bags were on sale in a few places, but we liked these best.


This is from a shop in Stone Town, Zanzibar. There are zillions of these little wooden figurines and of the pictures you see. Click to zoom in and note the cartoonish paintings in the middle. They are Tingatinga paintings that are especially from Tanzania and are very famous apparently. I thought they were cool, but liked the ones of the Masai a bit better personally.