Last chance to go to the Dar es Salaam market and most took advantage of it. You need a thick skin as as the shop keepers and their assistants see you coming and scramble to get you to come into the depths of their shops. If their was a market in Calgary for African art ... importing this merchandise would be a great little business. As usual I think of pictures later that I should have taken. For starters I would have taken a photo of the craftsmen carving or chiselling the large ebony items ... twigas, family trees, rhinos.
Tanzinite... the fellow was asking about $300 USD I believe for his gems ... buyer beware!
Back at the Peacock I took a few pictures from the balcony. Shaun dropped over and we saw some interesting sites across the way. This is the mosque with loudspeakers we hear the 5:15 am. morning call from. With Shaun in the frame you can see it is a kilo meter or so away .. sound carries in the still of the damp morning air.
A little closer in just off the balcony people live as they might in any high density developing city of 3 million .. proud of their space and working to put food on the table and live life. Across the way a fellow was taking a shower using water running out of a roof top tap.
Time to get dressed for final report presentations and a farewell dinner with all of our hosts, the government and of course a tight knit team of 15 consultants.
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