TRAVEL ARCHIVE: TANZANIA (LAKE VICTORIA, 2006)
I was traveling with Kristina, a Swedish woman in her late thirties. We met while volunteering in Bagamyo, a small town located on the Indian Ocean about an hours drive north of Dar es Salaam. After traveling for a week, maybe longer, we ended up on the shore of Lake Victoria in a city called Mwanza. I don’t remember exactly how long we stayed there, but I remember we were there because that’s where the ferry to Ukerewe Island departed from.
While we waited at the ferry dock for our boat to come, I wandered into a run-down concrete building that sat on a concrete pier. The building consisted of one large concrete room, lined with rows of heavy concrete benches. There where no lights on but the afternoon sun came through the chain link-covered windows.
I walked up to the window fence and looked out at the lake. I saw a dhow sailing in the distance and a man waiting.
View on a map exactly where I took this photo.
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