Day 129 – Saturday 5th June 2010

Today was a sightseeing day, all 4 of Tabora’s hot spots.

We started with a morning tour of the market. It was quite a spectacle to see 6 wazungus walking around the market, and we got a lot more attention than normal, but all very nice.

We then headed off and bought some honey. This is only an experience because it looks anything but a place to get honey and you buy it in these large plastic bottles.

Then it was off to Tipha for Samosa’s. We decided that we would do take out and have them with our lunch.

3 down, 1 to go.

We then ventured off to find Livingstone’s museum. We hadn’t managed to go there yet so didn’t really know where we were going.

Luckily, just as we were starting to think we were lost we got flagged down by an old man who asked in English, “Livingstone museum?”

He jumped in the back with a key and on we drove.

The museum was fascinating, sorry we forgot our camera, full of stories and bits and pieces from the story of Dr Livingstone that we all vaguely knew. I guess Tabora is a little bit more famous than we give it credit for.

After a tour, us all refusing to enter some rooms due to the numbers of bats hanging down from the ceiling and flying around, and a chat with a group of 15 local children who had followed our car as we drove here, we headed home for lunch.

A lazy afternoon, where I think we all slept was had and then a dusk stroll around the block, seeing a number of amazing birds on route.

This evening we introduced my family to the wait for food at the Tabora Hotel. Only just shy of 2 hours, but the food was very good and we had a fun evening. It is so good to catch up with them all, and properly catch up and not a quick Skype chat catch up.

Tired, it is bedtime.