Since bedkit distributions in
Tanzania take place at rural schools, today most of the team booked a personal
day trip to Zanzibar. It was a very exciting and eventful day full of
amazing sights, sounds and smells. The morning was spent touring Stone Town.
Our guide Sahid was a wealth of historical information about the island,
buildings, its people and its markets-fish, meat, fruits and vegetables.
After enjoying a tasty Swahili lunch, our guide took us on a very informative walk through a spice farm where we smelled and tasted many spices -lemongrass, peppercorn, ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, mace, cloves, nutmeg and cardoman. We stayed at the spice farm a little too long and found ourselves running late. This was further complicated when traffic stopped due to road construction. Given the limited time to get to the ferry, our driver chose to drive down the sidewalk. It made for quite an adventure! Luckily we arrived at the ferry with four minutes to spare.
The return ferry trip to Dar es Salaam took longer than the morning trip of an hour and a half because of strong head winds and very rough water. It was a once in a lifetime adventure on "Spice Island."
Ruth Sealey and Linda Straus for Team Tanzania 2017
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