I mentioned on my Polish Trace Around the World Facebook page Benedict the Pole, who explored East before Marco Polo. This is his story. Continue reading
Posts Tagged With: Tomek Wilmowski
Marcin in Mombasa
So we landed at the hotel on Diani Beach. The hotel was actually a few large cottages where the ground floor and the first floor were separate rooms with kitchenettes, the lower one being like a small apartment. The whole estate is surrounded by a wall and between the houses there’s a lot of greenery – bushes with flowers and palm trees. We were warned to close all windows because monkeys like to go into the cottages. We also had a baboon that ate our chocolate and shamelessly used our floor as a toilet.
Almost like a paradise
Time to say goodbye to Maasai
The final point of the program before returning to Arusha was the closing ceremony of the project. Unfortunately on the same day a funeral happened with a large number of people attending but a lot of people came to our “party” anyway, including the Elders and the local politician. The ceremony was held near a tree thought by the Maasai as sacred. This is a fig variety (ficus natalensis), called locally mutuba (interesting fact for those who read Tomek’s books – from this tree bark is obtained, from which fabric (bark cloth) is made, traditionally worn by members of the Baganda tribe and often featuring King of Buganda – kabaka. Tomek Wilmowski with friends visited kabaka Dausi Chwa II. I couldn’t help myself 😉)
And that’s how kabaka looked like, roughly at the time when Tomek visited Buganda
Categories: RTW trip
Tags: Arusha, Buganda, Emboreet, kabaka, Kresy-Siberia, Maasai, mutuba, Oreteti le-Emboreet, Poland, Poles in Africa, Poles in Tanzania, Simanjiro, Tanzania, Tengeru, Tomek Wilmowski, Youth council
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