Early wake up this morning to leave by 7 am. Breakfast was provided by Itibo – samosas, sweet potatoes, bread and eggs. It wasn't long on the road before we got to our first stop – Kisii Soapstone Carving Factory. We got a tour of the place and were shown how raw soapstone is cut and carved, sanded smooth and then painted and polished, to then be sold or exported. We saw one of the artists paint and decorate a finished bowl – he painted a giraffe eating from an acacia tree on a backdrop of a sunset that was so intricate and finely detailed all in the space of 15 minutes! Pretty incredible work. On the drive to the Tanzanian border crossing, Flo told us about the tribe/region we were driving through – the Luo tribe. This is the tribe Barack Obama comes from. The Luo tribe specialise in fishing as they are situated on the shore of Lake Victoria. Flo told us about some interesting practices by different tribes. The Luo people practice wife inheritance – this means that if a wife’s husband passes away, the widowed wife will automatically become the wife of her late husband’s brother. The Maasai people practice sharing of wives – as nomadic pastoralists, a Maasai herdsman can spend the night with someone else’s wife when they seek accommodation for a night in someone’s homestead. All they do is rest their spear on the front door so that when the actual husband comes home, he knows that his wife is "accommodating" (hospitably and sexually!) another man and he will go and sleep at his brother’s or friend’s place instead! We got to the Tanzanian border crossing – a fairly easy process and USD 50 each for a visa. The interesting thing we saw at this border was a massive parade of villagers (maybe about 100 people) all carrying pangas (machetes), bows and arrows, sticks and other weapons, dancing, chanting and singing along. They were the support crowd for a few of the boys (typically aged about 13-15) who were getting circumcised – you can identify them as they were wearing hats with money pinned to them. They sing mock songs – songs to mock the evil spirits and chase them away so that the boys to be circumcised don’t die. Some of the people from our Intrepid tour decided to join in by putting money on the boys’ hats – the money is to support them on their journey to manhood. After they get circumcised (without aneasthetic!), they spend 2 months in the bush hunting and living like cavemen to toughen them up. The landscape in this part of Tanzania is pretty – green hills and plains, lots of big boulders and rocks, and of course Lake Victoria. We had lunch and set up camp at Tembo Campsite on the shore of the lake – there was an option to upgrade to a room but, as true Aussies, we went for the camping option! Most of the others went on a cycling tour around the nearby village with a local guide but we decided to take it easy and wander around the lake a little bit.