Oh, how we laughed. Joanne in Mombasa.

Mbeya Peak in southern Tanzania. We climbed up this and felt a little better about not bothering with Kilimanjaro. I say 'not bothering', I mean 'unlikely to be physically able' and 'unable to afford the thousand quid it would cost'.

Kids shouting 'Mzungu!' at the train from Mbeya - Dar es salaam. This is a small sample of the enormous number of children we saw in Tanzania.

View from the train on the Tazara line between Mbeya and Dar es salaam. Every time the train stopped hundreds of people rushed up to it and started selling fruit and veg (and samosas and kebabs and mobile phone cases and...) through the windows. They didn't much try and sell things to us, but lots of smiling kids waved at us and shouted 'Mzungu!' a lot. That means 'white person' - they're pretty observant, these kids.

Mbeya railway station, southern Tanzania. We took the train here from Dar es salaam (for 24 hours) and stayed in a lovely place called the Utengule Country Hotel. The train line goes all the way to Zambia and the whole thing was built by the Chinese when the Tanzanian governmnet leant further to the left than it does now. Local rumour has it that the Chinese railway workers provided the area with a number of mixed-race (i.e. Chinese/Tanzanian) children whilst they were there but when the railway was finished and the workers packed up, all these children disappeared with them...

Waterfall, somewhere near Moshi, Tanzania. This photo was taken by a helpful young man called Oscar. 

Can you see it? Chameleon-like camouflage, eh? Well, that's hardly surprising - it's a two-horned chameleon, innit. 

It looked it, too. Mombo, Tanzania. 

The market in Lushoto, Tanzania. Plenty of chickens to be had here. Likewise fish. 

Sepia setting on the digital camera is a wonderful thing. This is the inside of the Aga Khan Cultural Centre in Zanzibar's Stone Town.