Bob, Alan, Mike, with much assistance from Andrew, Loshie, Anthon, Harrison, John, Kreti, Frank, Isaya, Nasib, and many more
Mike rejoins our party for the safari next day, after having spent several days scuba diving in Zanzibar.
Bob and Alan hire our porter John from the Kilimanjaro Trek to guide us around Arusha.
Lane to Outpost Lodge, which I found comfortable, with free internet and wifi, and relatively inexpensive |
Bob, John, and Alan at entrance to Mount Meru Hotel |
John convinces Alan, then convinces Bob, to stand in middle of intersection for photo. Cars drive around us.
Alan is looking forward to shopping and negotiating. He successfully negotiates the purchase of several yards of fabric for wife Clar at the Makoi Family Shop on Majengo Street, email erick.kisivan@yahoo.com. See negotiations here
John and Alan |
John and Bob |
Alan in Makoi Family Shop looking for fabric |
We ate lunch at a local cafe recommended by John - had a couple of bowls of banana stew. Also sampled some of John's dried sardines.
Alan samples the banana stew |
Bob and Alan at John's recommended cafe for lunch |
Alan and John |
We visit the Maasai Market, which is a large number of separate shops. Our most visited shop - we ended up shopping there 3 times - is the Mt. Meru Curio & Craft Market, Managing Director Vicent David. It is located at: We particularly like working with Linda, who sold us many souvenirs and appears in these photos with Alan and Vicent.
We also bought bracelets at Snow Crest Hotel
Rose's friend Anna S. Kombe is Director of House Nice Company |
Here are some views of the Arusha streets as we drove along
And here we are in a bus/van John found for us to get us back to the hotel.
The following are views of Mt. Meru from my hotel bedroom window.
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