crazy traffic! |
room foundations at Bagamoyo |
Baobab tree! |
Burial chambers |
a sausage tree =) |
15th century mosque at Bagamoyo |
a well |
the fruit of the sausage tree...really heavy actually |
poor Baobab tree, all carved by silly tourists |
see how grand it is! |
the CIEE gang |
this is marking the Imam's grave..his is the tallest |
Imam's wife #1 |
Imam's wife #2 |
evidence of Persian influence in East Africa...writing! |
the 'holy' well in front of the 17th century mosque |
my archaeology professor would have a heart attack! |
evidence of wooden support beams |
natural amplification...I don't think they had megaphones in the 17th century |
the children |
Mangroves...there are so many that they shifted the location of the harbor a couple miles away |
Kim and Kim |
This is a secondary school that used to be a camp for freedom fighters from Mozambique in the 1980s |
The Old fort |
this platform was first used for slaves and then for canons to protect German-held Bagamoyo |
sleeping quarters for German soldiers/holding areas for slaves |
scary stairs! |
and not-so-structurally-sound roofs |
Islamic architectural influence |
Karibu! Welcome! |
Where Germans would hang slaves |
German graves...this guy did something bad (worse than normal) and was separated from the rest |
a stealthy picture of the Bagamoyo fish market |
ugali!! yum yum |
lunch with the CIEE gang |
and old school pasta maker |
the current president's (Kiketwe) childhood house |
art anyone? |
a picture of campus |
our resident baboon |