Wednesday, October 11, 2006

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...

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