Jinji Sadan

When you crossing Africa you need to get used to the changes of the countries really fast, when I entered Tanzania I needed to start to learn some Swahili in order to get a long with the people and to survive on the road. So how much is it, hello, thank you, yes, no, go away, I am hungry, food, I am tired were the first words that I learned… People are very nice and they always wave and smile to me so it makes the beginig easier.
      For the first look it seems that Tanzania its more developed then Malawi and Mozambique there is food on the road and the roads are good (the main one…), maybe it is because there are many Muslems, almost no people drunk in the middle of the day and police is  all over the places, so it gives you some secure feeling. The cycling in the beginning was on the main road so it was busy and not so interesting landscapes but after some days I went to the dirt roads where everything is more special and interesting. In some stretch of the road I saw more monkeys then people and the big baobab trees are looking at me from high above.

In every small village there is a place to drink chai (tea) and chapatti (bread) and I remembered good days in India. The menu is written on the wall …Because of the language problem and the places that I have been where there are not many whites (with unique beard…) I was a small tourist attraction   in every small villages and I felt like an alien when every one talking about the AZUNGO and I cant understand them…

This is the real Africa. I was so excited to see in the middle of nowhere the famous Massai tribe that living in Tanzania and Kenya, they are so impressive people, very strong and beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldNJ1TwoqUs

It was nice to see that they are very proud of there culture and always wearing earrings and necklaces, even then they work, most of them got a lot of herds of cows and goats.
       Amazing experience was to learn from them about their gods (the baobab trees) and their ceremonies, we dance and we laugh on our meeting. Then we danced it was one of the funniest moments that I had in life (see it on Youtube). Nothere is the land of the Massai and they are everywhere.
Yesterday then I was heading for the big and very touristy city Arusha in the north of Tanzania a car stopped and the people came to me and they were Israelis that recognized me from  the TV…It was really worm meeting to see them and to talk Hebrew after long time. They gave me chocolates from Israel and for some moments I felt in home. If  in the middle of nothere people recognized me in Israel it means 2 things: It’s a small world and its big journey

Roei “jinji” sadan

ARUSHA

TANZANIA

AFRICA

THE WORLD

I was very happy to recover from my physical stress in the big city Blantyre in Malawi, after crossing Mozambique I was happy to be in a place that some people most of the people know English and I can communicate better with the people, I ate wll and  just tryed to rest , a thing that I am not really good at it. You can see that the people are very friendly and nice (some times too much – they can wake you up in 5 a.m. just to ask if everything is ok…). The Malawian people are proud to say that Malawi is “real” Africa. I am surprise to see men drinking milk in the middle of the day and every where but I understood that this how they drink the local beer… in cartons and it in the same color like milk…

 I was happy to know that there is food on the road and vendors are selling everything that you can put inside from everything that you can find inside the cow and the goat to small birds in deep fried… lake worms that its look like (more…)