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