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Siavonga: Gifts I Seemed to Need From a Lake Kariba Village

Siavonga: Gifts I Seemed to Need From a Lake Kariba Village

Siavonga: Gifts I Seemed to Need From a Lake Kariba Village. March 3 I had some backpack mechanics to deal with this morning.  The clip for the waist belt on the bottom of the 9.5 year old $14 North Face knock-off Chinese backpack broke on me.  Three nights ago, when it was dark on the bus through Tanzania, I took my jackknife and I cut fabric of a seatbelt that no one ever uses to take the clips.  It was...

Stone Town to Nungwi - Worlds Last Open Slave Market

Stone Town to Nungwi – Worlds Last Open Slave Market

Stone Town to Nungwi – Worlds Last Open Slave Market. Dec 11 Free guesthouse breakfast, check-out, and head to the Anglican Christ Chruch Cathedral which is the former site of the worlds last open slave market.  Legend has it that that alter of the church now sits above a tree where slaves were whipped to show their strength and hardness.  There are holding cells for the males and for the females under the church.  Slaves from central and east African...