Tanzanian safari

Some food thoughts and images from Tanzania:

1) Salticrax. Heh heh. My former co-worker Eric wrote about it, and we found it!

It's surprisingly tasty, and goes great with an ice-cold Kili (see #2 below) and a half-melted chocolate bar dug out from the bottom of your bag. Our last "meal" in Tanzania.

2) Beer. Tanzanian beer is cheap and tasty. Peeled-off beer labels, which I pressed between the pages of my Lonely Planet, pictured below. We encountered three brands. Safari was the least noteworthy.

Serengeti was the strongest of the three, both in flavor and in alcohol content.

Kilimanjaro, which I would describe as a light-to-medium lager, ended up being our favorite. Our driver told us re Kilimanjaro: "If you can't climb it, drink it." We sure did drink it.

3) Food. We were mostly served Western food (meat and potatoes, pasta, etc.) so not too much to report from our regular meals. For lunch, we mostly had picnic boxes from whatever lodging we had departed from that morning. Hardboiled eggs, chocolate bars, rolls with cheese, samosas, etc. Incidentally, whenever there was a samosa, it was always the best item in the lunchbox. We did have one meal that seemed more like local cuisine than the others; it consisted of grilled chicken, beef stew, rice, hominy and beans, stewed plantains, a sort of coleslaw salad and a ball of polenta.

It really was a fantastic trip. Pictures of all the animals we saw - but did not eat - will be up on Facebook as soon as I cull through the 900+ pictures that Yining and I took.