Tanzania

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We were in Tanzania over our birthday week.

My birthday is February 18th. Chelly's birthday is February 24th. We spent the week of February 18th to February 24th, 2010 in Tanzania.

Tanzania was two countries before 1964, when Tanganyika and the Zanzibar archipelago united to become the United Republic of Tanzania. Zanzibar has a very colorful history. Settled by human beings for 20,000 years, Zanzibar was once said to rule the entire coast of East Africa. The island was in it's "Golden Age" before the colonization by the British, subsequent independence, revolution, and absorption by Tanganyika into the new country "Tanzania".

On Zanzibar, they still behave as if it were a separate country, stamping passports, selling visas, setting up military checkpoints, etc.

We were there from February 18th to 24th and only took a few pictures. You'd have to see it to believe it. We were busy seeing it and not photographing it.

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