The Bus Ride to Arusha

Last Thursday I went on the 8 hour bus ride from Morogoro (central Tanzania) to Arusha (northern Tanzania) with Narooma from my Swahili language course. I decided to post a couple pictures I snapped out the window of the bus to give you an idea about what the ride was like.




This is just a village shot I took about half way through the journey. This picture is very typical of what you would see out the window of the bus. I was very tired during the trip, but I was so interested in looking out the window that I couldn't sleep.


Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of this, but what should be the next picture is passengers on the bus throwing garbage out the window. It is not against the law, or even looked down upon to litter in Africa. They call it the 'African recycling system' - you throw something you don't need out the window of your car and someone else will come along and use it.

This is one of the many sales people that came up to the bus offering to sell all sorts of items when the bus stopped.

Sorry this picture is a little blurry - I took it through the glass window. You can see that there is a wide variety of items available at each bus stop.