jambiani

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hey,


i have no big plans, just bumming around on zanzibar. yesterday i took
a long ride out to the east coast, which is where i am now. jambiani.
i arrived in the evening and walked down the beach in very fine powder
white sand and a man with the sand on his face took me to a house that
he rents out. it is a luxury apartment ashram style four big rooms of
weird old painted cement and a thatched roof and a stove. it is very
nice and very cheap because of the season, right on the beach with a
rope swing bench.

hassan had a football match close by in another town
and on the way there the team picked me up off the highway in a dump
truck full of players, standing up... barely enough room for all of
us. we went down the road to the small village of paje where the
"white star" makunduchi football team with the help of hassan made
some nice passes and some nice goals against "the new boy" football
team. i ate potato wedges with egg and drank a bottle of sprite and we
heard drums in the distance, as about 200 teenagers with kleenex boxes
on their heads came marching down the street playing drums and
instruments of all kinds very well and singing with about 200 little
infants that could walk and dance running circles around them,
everyone smiling! hassans brother ali becide me told me they were just
having fun, no reason for it, that is one of the things that young
people do for fun in zanzibar.

hassan had to go, ali took me on the motorbike back to my village and
i drove. about halfway there some police pulled out of the bush
behind us, ali laughed, ali is a policeman himself it turns out, so
we pulled over and ali and the police officers made a few jokes and
hugged and he dropped me off back at my beach villa.

there is a motorbike that hassan's brother ali has found in good
working order for me, he is a mechanic and recomended for a trip to
cape town that i find something in good working order. 650$, i think
that having a motorbike here will trump any safari or hike or any
other thing and be the most exciting and crazy way to spend
time/travel south. also, leah and i could drive it up to namibia.
but still i will investigate the safari and kilamanjaro hike.

jasper

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