Crafts and Tribal Walk

After an exhilarating few days in the Serengeti, we switched gears and did a cultural village walk through a variety of tribes in Mto Wa Mbu.  Each tribe focused on a different craft and at each location, a member of the tribe described their process and told us the myths and African stories that inspired their artwork.  We also got to visit a kindergarten class with dozens of exceptionally cute and squirming kids!

The rice fields surrounding the village:

 Designing a wooden bowl:

The finished products:

 The kindergarten class - Students don't have paper or pens, but read from posters on the wall:

The "art gallery" in a banana grove where I bought this amazing abstract painting, along with the artist who created it.

 The traditional lunch we were served under the leaves of a fig tree:

 The local marketplace:

At the market, shoes made from recycled bike tires: