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Washing down dinner with a drink from a small stream. |
On the lookout. |
Posing for pictures. |
Chillin' in the shade of an overland truck. |
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Buffalo. |
Our game drive brought us all the way to the Tanzanian border. |
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Wildebeest migrating north from Tanzania. |
More of the wildebeest migration. |
With Sonkoi and Richard, in front of Anne and Sonkoi's house. |
Hanging out in the kitchen while Richard's mom cooks dinner. |
It was eventually agreed that we were to be married. |
School house in the village of Kanunka, built by the British during colonial times. |
The beginning of a 3 hour hike to Pemba's village of Oltulelei. |
Scenery along the way to Oltulelei. |
Walking to Oltulelei with Pemba and Leketoon. |
Maasai children tending their herd of goats. |
Still hiking.... |
Masaii villages in the distance. |
Finally made it - Pemba's village at the other end of this plateau. |
Curious, smiling kids come running out to greet us. |
Many of the younger ones had never seen a white person before. |
Women and girls of the village working on ceremonial clothing and jewelry for an upcoming wedding. |
Pemba's family's hut, and my home for the weekend. |
Some other houses of the Oltulelei. |
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Inside Pemba's hut, his mother heats milk for chai (tea). |
Pemba's father. The cowhide he's sitting on is where I slept. |
Kids playing a kind of hop-scotch. |
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Some of Pemba's buddies. |
Getting a haircut. |
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Me with some of the boys (Pemba took this one - hadn't quite mastered the camera yet). |
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Men of the village enjoying some shade. |
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Pemba and I. |
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Bringing the goats back from grazing in the fields. |
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Pemba and his buddies |
They were absolutely blown away when i turned the camera around and showed them the picture i just took. |
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