Goats are better alive

Well, I am back in Dar from the vacation up north. I don't think I have the energy right now to write about everything, so I will give some highlights.

Friday we spent the day in Moshi, the town/city right near Mt. Kilimanjaro. For those of you who don't know, Kili is the tallest mountain in Africa. Anyway, we got a guide and the 5 of us usual travellers, plus the new girl, Miriam who just arrived, and the 2 Lithuanian and 2 Swedish exchange students hiked around the villages near Kili and went to some waterfalls there. It was beautiful! (Photos to come...)

Saturday we got up early and met a friend of Conner's (named Isaya) in Arusha to go visit his Masaai village. As it turns out, he is the chief of the entire region. (He dresses in traditional wear all the time). You can actually read about him since he was one of the guys who ran the London marathon (actually, they skipped the London marathon); just google it. Anyway, we took a 1 hour bus ride and then a 1 hour pick up truck ride to his village. Well, the pictures will tell more, but they live in the most remote place in the entire world. We stayed in a literal mud hut, on these extremely hard "beds" made of cow hide. The Masaai are fascinating -- their diet consists of meat, milk and drinking the blood from their cows and goats. Thus, they killed a goat for us, and I tried raw goat kidney, goat blood and meat, all which was DISGUSTING...but a great adventure. They also danced for us, and taught us about their culture etc.

I will spend some time and try to get photos to work...

Love,

RQ