Waterfall at the base of Mt. Meru (looking up from underneath)

Larissa standing perilously above a rocky river on a narrow, slippery and decaying bridge

Standing on the coolest bridge ever

Sunset through trees at Mt. Kilimanjaro

Chagga dance.

This dance took place at our first field trip locale to a small village near Machame. The village is situated on a multiple ridge tops set apart by rivers that run down from Mt. Kilimanjaro. The pathways between the ridges are steep and often muddy but the people here have no trouble at all traversing them, unlike ourselves to whom it was all very treacherous and quite the adventure.

These elders of the village were kind enough to revive some of the traditional Chagga dances for us to see and learn.

Old Chagga man at the dance

Chagga man in a banana hat

Larissa tried the local brew

Tasting the local brew, a beer made of ground millet and plantain (a bit on the chunky side but not too bad)

Drinking the "local brew"

Chagga dancing

Chagga elders performing a traditional dance

Silly group photo

(left to right) Myself, unknown, Tamiko, George, Heid, Emma and Larissa at a waterfall

Waterfall near Kilimanjaro

Eucalyptus trees in Mt. Kilimanjaro foothills

Vessel for plantain stew prepared for us by an old Chagga herbalist near Machame, Tanzania

Heid, myself and Larissa peeling plantain for our lunch

Growing garden wall

Chagga herbalists kitchen