Tanzanian Tribes - Africa part II

After coming back from the wild safari, we traveled through places which seemed to be the factory of world's dust. It felt like we were traveling through time as we've seen the (minimal) modern culture fading away. We've started seeing people living in mud houses, traveling shepherd around with their sheep. less and less "modern" clothing (T-Shirts), and more and more traditional capes and dresses. Finally, after sleeping in a camp where white face monkeys (with blue testicles) play at day time and Bush Babies hunt at night, we've reached out destiny - The Bushmen camp.

Bush Baby


We reached the bushmen camp (Hazabe tribe) at 7am with a translator to "the click language". It's called like this because the have special letters which sound like a "click". Apparently the bushmen's camp is a bush (hmm... I guess the name is not just a coincidence...). They were getting warm around the fire and they were talking about the hunt they are going to do - they were talking about the white guys (Mizungu) who got to the camp.

Bush-guy preparing arrows



Well.... we've found ourselves running in the bush with 3 children who had bow and arrows.

Come out, come out wherever you are!


We were looking for anything that moves (snakes, birds, rats, bush babies etc.). We stopped by a rat nest as one of the children started to call it out (by making a female rat squeaking sound), but no one was home. We kept running until one of the kids (who I think worked once as a model (look at the pic)) caught a dove.

Look at me! I'm a dove model!


When we got back (after almost stepping on venomous snakes), we started a fire (with 2 sticks) and the kids threw the dove into the fire.After half a minute, they shared the dove among themselves. The psycho kid (you can spot him by his crazy look) took a knife, split the dove open and chewed the uncooked intestines... Yak!

Psycho kid


Baubab tree



Psycho kid eating breakfast...



After a short dance with the Bushmen and a short bow practices, we said goodbye and went to another tribe - The Toga. The Toga live about 2000B.C, unlike the Hazabe who lives 3000B.C. they live in mud houses (instead of under a bush), and work as blacksmiths or grow livestock. We reached to one of their villages to watch their day to day life. As we got into the village, a young woman saw my friend, and fell in-love.Even her mother gave the blessing, but I had to separate between the lovebirds, as we had to continue our trip - To The Kilimanjaro!

(don't miss the "5 things you didn't know about..." at the bottom)

Toga head of the family (9 wives!!!)



Blacksmith



5 things you didn't know about Walt Disney and Swahili languege (a very common African languege):

1. "Simba" in Swahili is Lion


2. "Pumba" is wart hog


3. "Rafiki" (the blue faced monkey in "The Lion King") is friend.


4. "Tambo" is an elephant (just like Dambo, the flying one...).


5. "Hakuna Matata" is "No Problem" (And they really love to say it).

And one last thing you probably didn't know about the Bushmen - The only animal they don't eat is the hyaena. This is because when a bush-guy dies, they put him out side the camp so the hyaenas will eat it. (and it has a bad taste)



Bon Appetit!

Almost eaten by a lioness - Africa part I (cont.)

I forgot to put the "5 things you didn't know about..." in my last post, so here it is:

5 things you didn't know about lions:

1. Lions mate every 15 minutes for 2 to 3 days.
2. Lioness can mate with more than one lion in the pack. (No, not at the same time)
3. It takes only a few seconds for the Lion to finish his dirty business. (For the one in the photo it took only 7 seconds!!!)
4. If the lion was a human he would have suffer from a severe premature ejaculation.
5. If the lion could read, they would have ripped my head off for the previous section.

Almost eaten by a lioness - Africa part I

I came back from Tanzania about 6 weeks ago. I've been there for 3 weeks with one of my best buddies - Liad (he claims to be the only one).
Anyway, we started our trip with 6 days in the safari. On the second day we got to the famous Serengeti reservation.
In the camp (we slept in tents), there were 2 cages. One was the kitchen and one was the dinning room - here humans are in the cage.
During the day we've travelled with ORV around the huge Serengeti, seeking for animals - especially the cats (Lions, Cheetahs and Leopards). During the night we ate dinner in the cage and waited to see one of the cooks being eaten by a lioness which came to drink some water (real story, I'm not joking).
I was walking around in the camp, which I forgot to mention was without any fence, with a camera - waiting for the moment.In the morning we counted the number of cooks in the camp, and I'm still sure there were less than in the night before.
So... Here's what you've all been witing for... pix!

A lioness looking at me and thinking: "It probably tastes like chicken..."

Sundown close to the Hipo pool

Mits Petel!!

Serengeti Sundown

Naughty Mr & Mrs Lion

First Post!

Well, my first post will be quite short...
After causing me a brain damage and some psychological issues, a friend from work named Uri Kalish (Urika) found a new project. He started nagging me every day (just like the kid stewie from family guy) to open a blog.
So... here we are...
I plan this blog to be about photography, but who knows what it will evolve to be. I hope you will enjoy my verbal masturbation and my photos. I will love to have any comments and feedback you have.

Just a few notes for the ending:

1. No matter what Urika will say or write in his blog, he did NOT invent the name for this site - it's too SefiSticated for him. ;)
2. It's a good time to thank my girlfriend (Chicky), who helped me a lot with the blog.

Enjoy,
Sefi.