Muungoni cycling

cycling through woodland around Muungoni

some paths become unusable following the rainy season

Renovation Muungoni nursery school

This nursery school was built in 1998, but now it is thought that the classrooms are too dark
so the village plan to replace the windows

surprisingly only a couple of hours work to remove the old casements

portrait village builder at Muungoni nursery school renovation

Muungoni portraits

portrait village girl at Muungoni

portrait village boy at Muungoni

portrait Mohamed Ayoub at Muungoni village

portrait Jako at Muungoni village

Muungoni night sky

Muungoni night sky - Scorpio (with Mars and Saturn getting in the way)

Muungoni night sky - Southern Cross

Mangrove wildlife viewing platform

Old dhows of Malindi & Bhawani

cargo boats waiting for loading at the old dhow harbour, Malindi

Fishing boats and [swimming] fishmongers at the old dhow harbour, Malindi

An old sailing jahazi being repaired at low tide

Old sailing jahazis of Bhawani

Zanzibar - seafaring folk

An ngalawa passes a sandbank. The sail would have been sponsored in a "dhow race" in recent years

A cargo of charcoal arriving from Bagamoyo by plank built mashua

charcoal arriving from minland Tanzania

Stone Town life

Coffee seller resumes business wearing hat, apron, gloves and using disposible cups
following newly enforced public health measures

Colourful laundry

Message on a souvenir shop shutter "wife happy life happy"

School girls on a study trip - outside the National Museum

From the sea

pweza pweza - octopi walking down the road

Malindi fish market - piles of vibua ready to go

Malindi fish market fully occupied once again after newly enforced public health measures

This cuttlefish was floating on the surface of the water - still alive - our boatman plucked it out for us to get a closer look

Stone Town streets: close-ups

Malindi market red and green chillis close-up

Stone Town streetfood corn-on-the-cob close-up

Zanzibar sky thrrough market awnings

Stone Town street paint pots close-up

Zanzibar fluorescent coloured kofia - close-up

Stone Town architectural designs

Arabesque window of a former bank

recently cleaned Zanzibar door with brass studs

ironwork with letter 'M'

1930s Hindu facia remains while orginal building is cleared for new hotel development

Streetwise, Zanzibar

portrait Stone Town boys on a wall

Stone Town graffiti - I LIKE ZANZIBAR

Hanging around in Stone Town

Stone Town streets

Stone Town in the early morning

Stone Town back alley

Stone Town Hamamni street

Stone Town Shangani Post Office

Stone Town Lebanon sq

Stone Town street

Stone Town street Old Fort

Colour patterns and abstract - Zanzibar

Stone Town painted wall (by artists cleaning their brushes) close-up

plenty of fish in the sea (photo taken from floating restaurant)

Stone Town decorative airbrick illuminated close-up

Forodhani waterfront from the sea abstract

Forodhani afterglow

Stone Town tingatinga painters box close-up