The TEEZ office closes for a couple weeks for the Christmas and New Years holidays, so we decided to follow in the footsteps of previous GMFs and visit Tanzania.
We boarded the TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway) and traveled for 2.5 days all the way from Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia, to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Following are some views from the train...
There was a Zambian family in a nearby compartment. At one point, the father was with his young (6 yrs?) son, Wope, looking out the window, showing him the villages.Wope asked, "What's a village?"
Dad replied, pointing, "That's a village. It has goats, and mangoes, and bananas, and little boys like you."
To this, Wope looked up nervously at his father and said, "But I don't want a village!"
At every stop, there were women and children selling all sorts of things to passengers through the train windows--water, fruits & vegetables, rice, potatoes, nshima, snacks, even perfume and clothing and toys. We bought rolls, boiled eggs, mangoes and bananas for our breakfasts. Some people even bought the whole huge bunches of bananas--like those seen above.
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Are the bananas any different than those here?
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