mysunrays: Between the years: Zanzibar, Dar-es-Salaam, Nairobi (update)

With the following photos I do not aspire to give a comprehensive picture of the places I visited. They are just a selection of personal impressions my European tourist´s gaze was drawn to
but which nevertheless I would like to share.

Zanzibar

Amani Na Iwepo Duniani - May Peace Prevail on Earth

Evening at the Indian Ocean

Stone Town 1

Stone Town 2

Palace Museum

Tembo Hotel

embe, nanasi, ndisi - chakula kitamu sana
mangoes, ananas and bananas - incredibly delicious!

Hibiscus

Krismasi njema - Merry Christmas

Dar-es-Salaam


Village Museum http://www.tanzanianow.com/the-village-museum-dar-es-salaam/

The centrepiece of the Village Museum are the various dwellings of Tanzania´s rural
population, their respective livelihoods and traditions.

Baobab in the Village Museum


Shop in Mikocheni B

Nairobi

National Treasury, Nairobi Central Business District. Photo: Johanna Wiest

View from the top of Jomo Kenyatta Conference Centre.
Photo: Johanna Wiest

Jomo Kenyatta Conference Centre
Photo: Johanna Wiest

Karura Forest

David Sheldrick elephant orphanage at Nairobi National Park www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphans.asp

car wash in front of an apartment house

Fig tree

Kiambethu Farm to the northwest of Nairobi offers a guided tour and a delicious lunch
http://www.kiambethufarm.com

Tea Plantation at Kiambethu Farm(1)

Tea Plantation at Kiambethu Farm(2)

Lunch break at Kiambethu Farm

Nairobi National Museum


*From Peoples of Kenya* by Joy Adamson, Nairobi National Museum**

On her travels around Kenya in the late 1940s Joy Adamson painted representatives of the country´s tribes. A selection of the original portraits is displayed at the Nairobi National Museum.