Stonetown, Zanzibar: Longshoremen head home after work

 

 

in 2009 Sandy and I had 5 weeks in Tanzania - our last 5 nights were in based in Stonetown Zanzibar. Yes it was a wonderfully exotic as it sounds. I almost had tears when we left. We were also flying directly to Amsterdam and ending our fanasy in Tanzania.

 

This is one photo that I made from the beach in front of our hotel. To the west of us was the harbour where these Longsoremen had spent there day hand unloading cargo that had been barged to the beach off of larger vessels such as this one. On the horizon we can see one of the ancient Dhow vessels that will also bring cargo to the harbour of Stoentown. It will hold local goods - nothing from China.