Stone Town. Tiny winding streets that get you lost every two minutes. Street food. Beautifully carved wooden doors. Ferrel calico cats with fleas. People asking you to buy things. Trash. Three children one on bike. Smiling little boys. Motorbikes beeping at you. Mangos and passionfruit and lychee. Amazing green blue water. Dolphins swimming next to supertankers and oil slicks. Quite a crazy place.
I am staying with Elena in this house with an old lady and her daughter. They speak no English and feed us lots of bread and chai, but they are very nice. Very very hospitable - they gave up their bedrooms and a bathroom for us and always check our room and hang up our laundry. On television last night we saw bollywood movies, ellen degeneres, and muslim services from Oman - very strange.
In the next three days, we are going to coral reefs, mangroves, community preserved forest, and women seaweed farmers. It should be quite fabulous.
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