11 Fun Facts about Tanzania!

This blog was written on
7/30/10 but wasn’t posted until now due to lack of internet.

1. Mount
   Kilimanjaro is located in Tanzania
   and is the largest mountain in Africa.
2. ~1450TSH
   (Tanzania
   shillings) = $1 USD
3. It’s
   interesting how women can just breast feed in public with out covering
   themselves and not get any strange looks but women can’t have their
   knees showing and must wear skirts.
4. There
   are ~162 different tribes in Tanzania.
5. The
   moon would shine so bright at night that you didn’t need a headlamp.  This was nice because most of my team
   has either lost or broken their headlamps at this point in the race.
6. There
   were no mosquitoes in the bush.
7. Time
   is very different.  Their work day
   starts at 6am but is called the 1^st hour.  So when they say that church is at 10
   (the 10^th hour) it actually means 4pm. 
8. Zanzibar is a 100km
   island located just East of Tanzania. 
   It is no longer considered its own country.
9. There
   is NO such thing as personal space. 
   Public transportation was minivans that have enough seats for 20
   people but would usually have about 35 people crammed in them.
10. Mountain
    Dew was just introduced to this country about 2 months before we got
    here.  Most of the locals love it.
11. Some
    of the houses were made from mud and cow poop.