In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Afloat.”
Views from a Zanzibar Ferry
Tag: Zanzibar
Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition II
Tourists and Tanzanians juxtaposed
on the ferry from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar.
See also Juxtaposition I: Coke vs. Pepsi in Old Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal.
For more responses to the Weekly Photo Challenge theme Juxtaposition, click here.
Window on the World: Stone Town, Zanzibar
The last in my Window on the World response to the Weekly Photo Challenge. The bright morning sun through this window caught my eye when I was in Stone Town last March.
More photos in this Window on the World series:
Sunset in Zanzibar
This post is a response to Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon.
Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says
The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says this week hit right smack dab on one of my favorite hobbies. Wherever I go in the world, I take pictures of interesting signs that I see. Here is a sampling of my collection:
Some are hilarious signs I have spotted in bathrooms. (And it’s worth noting that I have been accidentally locked in a bathroom on every continent but Australia and Antarctica.)
Question: To flush or not to flush?
Kathmandu, Nepal
Answer: DO NOT FLUSH! DO NOT FLUSH! PANTHERS IN THE BATHROOM!
USE THE TRASH CAN FOR ALL PANTHERS! I REPEAT:
At times, signs can be very clear and direct.
- You do want your clothes to be CLEAN, right?
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
CAUTION! GROWN UPS!
Accra, Ghana
Relax.
Minneapolis, MN USA
Other times? Well, everyone could use a good editor.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Delhi, India
But my favorite signs are those that inspire me.
Kathmandu, Nepal
Yaounde, Cameroon
New Delhi, India
One Day in Zanzibar
A little more than 10 years ago, I had a rare moment of clarity. I was sitting with my second child, who was 9 months old, on my lap while my 2-year-old danced and swayed around me. Everyone else in the Mommy and Me class was singing – with gusto – the Barney song “I Love You”. Glancing at the clock, I realized that the week before – at exactly this time – I was being interviewed live on national TV in Peru about that country’s truth and reconciliation commission.
The stark contrast made me realize that I had chosen a life in which there might never really be a “typical” day. Setting aside the insipidity of Barney, I realized that these small moments with my young sons were as important and valuable as the other, more high-profile moments of my career, which often takes me to exotic locales. I learned not to compare my days. Not to sift through the experiences of each day and measure the worth of one against another, but to see them all as a whole. To acknowledge that each endeavor for work and for family gives me strength for the other. To realize that I am fortunate to have these varied experiences, which, woven together form the rich tapestry of my life.
So for the Weekly Photo Challenge: A Day in the Life, I am choosing to share one day that I recently spent in Zanzibar for work. As I write this, my daughter is sitting beside me, looking at the photos and talking about them with me. One day in Zanzibar, one day of spring break at home. Days and experiences, knitted together – so many days to be thankful for!
Sunrise in Dar es Salaam
St. Joseph Cathedral, on the waterfront in Dar es Salaam
View from my in Dar es Salaam
On the ferry, waiting for it to leave Zanzibar Gate
Birds over the harbor
Commuters at the Kigamboni Ferry Terminal
Early March – on the brink of rainy season – brings sudden, dramatic rain that quickly ends.
Rainbow over Dar es Salaam Bay
Stone Town waterfront
View of Stone Town harbor from hotel terrace.
On the ferry to Zanzibar
Stone Town rooftops
Looking down on the roofs of Stone Town, Zanzibar
Old Fort in Stone Town, a World Heritage Site
Stone Town, Zanzibar
On the way to Zanzibar Town, the capital of Zanzibar.
Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania with its own government – known as the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar. A proposal to amend Zanzibar’s constitution to allow rival parties to form governments of national unity was adopted by 66.2 percent of voters on 31 July 2010.
Interviews with non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
This poster is part of a campaign to end Violence Against Women in Zanzibar
Coconut tree at the office of an NGO in Zanzibar Town
Children’s rights
Back to Stone Town
Lunch. A new discovery – Stoney Tangawizi, a most delicious East African ginger beer!
Forodhani Gardens during the heat of midday
Window
Intricately carved door
House of Wonders during a sudden rain shower
Gizenga Street, Stone Town
Stone Town manhole cover
Mosiac
On the way to mosque
School girl heads home from school.
Forodhani Gardens at sunset
Zanzibar sunset
Zanzibar sunset
Cooling off at the end of the day
(See more Weekly Photo Challenge entries here.)
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