TANZANIA-1
(Last updated 4/2/01)

In Arusha, in north central Tanzania, the jumping off place: curbside market, a major outlet for local farmers (left); a shopper bargains with a mobile marketeer (right)
Street vendors

Stocking up on fresh fruits and vegetables at the more formal indoor market (left); clothes laid out to dry after doing the wash along one of the many small rivers that runs thru town from Mt. Meru, just to the north (right)
Doing the laundry along the river

The 4-wheel drive safari wagon that was our self-contained transportation for the week, carrying 15 people, luggage, supplies, water, and even firewood tied on the back bumper

Baobab tree on the western slope of the Rift Valley (left); in Ngorongoro Crater: zebras at a watering hole (right)

Wildebeest herd heading for Lake Magadi and water (left); zebra and wildebeest at the lake (right)

Flamingos feeding in the lake shallows

Grant's gazelle in the short grass (note the white rump patch; left); Cape buffalo in the long grass (right)

A hippo hole on the fringe of the Gorigor Swamp (left); African bull elephants on the floor of the Crater eating elephant grass (right) - the cows and calves normally stay in the forest on the Crater rim, e.g., in the trees and bushes next to our camp!

Lion on the edge of the Lerai Forest (left); lioness on the prowl (right)

Someone's always watching for dinner to arrive

At a Maasai village near the Ngorongoro Crater: the teenage boys and girls sing us a greeting

The warriors make an entrance (left); a Maasai hut, built of twigs and straw - and covered with cattle dung (right)

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