I'm Arusha now trying to do a little mini-ethnographic study to help for my final research plan before Tom gets here. I befriended a local tour guide (my first interview!) and he took me out to the local villages of the maasai! where the children called me mzungu over and over and thought I was hilarious. one child literally held in his laugh as a walked by and and busted out laughing after i pass...I guess I am a funny sight!! we also visited a village school ...

Bagamoyo Clara and I went to visit Bagamoyo for a night to start setting up her research. She will be studying the impact of tourism of the livelihoods of local artisans. Bagamoyo is a little beach town North of Dar es Salaam. The Government has supposedly been investing a lot of money in the town to increase tourism but to me it is still a sleepy little fishing village. During the 19th century Bagamoyo was the departure point to Zanzibar for slave and i...

My Trip: I am spending two months in Tanzania doing research for my MA and exploring Africa! My research will be on sustainable cultural tourism and will be mainly based out of Arusha. I will be leaving London on May 31 and returning on July 31, 2005. Main Accomplice: Joining me on this research mission will be Clara, my MA course classmate. Clara is also doing research in Tanzania as well as visiting her family, practicing her Swahili, and of course being m...

For a couple of weeks while we are doing Clara's research in Bagamoyo we are staying at her parents' house in Dar es Salaam. Dar es Salaam has an estimated population of about 4 million people with over 70% of the urban dwellers living in slums. Although not the political capital of Tanzania (that honor goes to Dodoma) it is the commercial capital and one of the largest cities in Africa. Walking around Dar es Salaam you would forget that it isn't actually the ...