If you like Orange Crush, then Tanzania would be a place to visit. And I don’t mean the great R.E.M song called Orange Crush either!
This photo was taken at a bus stop on the road to Dar es Salaam on the way from Arusha (the base town for the Serengeti).
This sight is a common one throughout Africa – miscellaneous fruit and other produce hawkers wishing to make a living along the bus stop routes – and willing to do almost anything to make a sale.
Including trying to sell a large bag of oranges, so you can make enough Orange Crush to last you the rest of your life.
This sight would happen every time a bus stopped to pick up or lay off passengers. Actually, some of the orange hawkers would even run after the bus in case a last minute sale would appear from a barely opened window!
Unfortunately, I didn’t feel like eating 50 oranges, or drinking enough freshly squeezed Orange Crush that would provide me a yearly dose of Vitamin C in one day. This is just another example of what people in the third world have to do for a living.
Other things you can do in Tanzania besides making tonnes of Orange Crush – check out the Hyrax, watch elephants walk through the camping ground at Ngorogoro Crater, and go to the Hairdresser.
Of course, after you’ve had some Orange Crush!
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April 20th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Your adventures are always so interesting. It’s great to see how those people live first-hand, even if it’s not always an easy truth. At least you have access to fresh, nutritious food along the road, instead of bad American fast food. Too bad it comes at such a cost for the people living there.
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