This gorgeus acacia tree grows right next to the road leading from Dodoma to Morogoro (and later to Dar es Salaam). It just stays there alone and gigantic next to the road in a middle of very beautiful scenary. The road climbs here towards the highlands, so there are wonderful views down to the valley and near by mountains.
This picture gives an example of the works of local corporate artist. All artwork you can see here in this picture is painted by hand, which makes the companies such as Gapco here as patrons for artists? As there is basically no printed plastics or neon lights used for advertisements outside major cities such as Dar, there is lot of work to do for these artists.
There are some nice small malls with terribly high prices in Dar es Salaam, but most of the shopping is in reality done places like this. This particular shop (on the right side) is in Chalinze, which is a small town located in a road junction, where roads to north (Moshi, Arusha) and south (Morogoro, Iringa) diverse.
This a simple lunch in a local place in Dodoma. The restaurants are quite often places like this, with sandy ground as a floor and tables and chairs made out of plastic. The food is usually eaten by hands (after washing them, of course), but this time I asked for a spoon, as I had rice instead of having ugali. The menu is usually including different sorts of roasted meat (beef, mutton, goat, and chicken) with ugali or rice, and some sauce and vegetables on the side. What it comes to drinks, there are locally brewed beers such as Safari(good!) and usual internationally known sodas available.
P.s.
I wrote you about the Chicken run at Dodoma Campus in the previous post. I took a video of it with my mobile phone. Check it out, its very interesting event! :) It is a 3gp file, I used Media Player Classic to open it in my computer.
Furthermore, when I was in Dododa, I got a wake-up call every morning at 5 in a morning. The wake-up call was coming from a mosque located close to our hotel. As I recorded on one day the sounds coming from a street underneath my window I also ended up capturing a prayer coming from that mosque. These kinds of sounds one does not encounter often in Finland. This one is amr file, it should also open nicely with Media Player Classic.
3 comments:
Cool! and thanks for sharing.
It seems you are enjoying as well :-)
And I couldn't avoid to laught a bit while reading the section on how do you describe the "art work" into the name of stores, for example. The idea that "there is basically no printed plastics or neon lights used for advertisements". Because for me, the surprise was in the other way around, when Finland uses a lot the neon lights, and you hardly see this kind of "paintings" outside houses or buildings. Ok, I induce it is for a winter reasons :-), but in any case, the descriptions made me smile a lot! and it is the first time I really read about this topic.
It is great to discover new worlds into the same planet, isn't it? Keep enjoying!
Hei koomaaja 2.6.! Vaikka teillä onkin siellä sähkön säännöstely, niin päivitä blogia useammin. Olen lukenut tämän sivun jo tsiljaariviisikertaa, ja haluaisin uudempia otoksia Tanzanian elämästä :)
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