My 2nd Dar Cycle

On Monday, 3rd September, My first free Monday from work, Tende was taking a group on an AfriRoots Dar Cycle. I had already gone on one with Mejah but decided to go again. The other people were 3 English people, one of which, a sister of Elaine and Tende's friends and one of Elaine and Tende's friends and her friend who was visiting who are American. To be honest, it was almost completely different.
While cycling we actually had about 20 young school children chanting "Wazungu" (plural of Mzungu) and some guys even making kung fu noises at Janet and her friend has they are of Asian descent. Apparently they are not "wazungu" but "cheenas" (maybe spelt wrong but that's how they pronounced it.) As I've said before, the lack of political correctness without any harsh intent, can be quite funny.

We went on a different route than before, didn't go to the doctor, went to a Dar es Salaam dump (which smelled really bad). We went to a food market and not to the small "movie theatre". We did go to the clothes market, cross that dodgy bridge (which had more bits missing from it than last time) and Masaai salon like before. Although this time there were girls in the group so we saw them braid some extensions to the girls hair. Again the masaai danced for us and again I did a jump or 2. After the dance we took pictures of them and strangely enough, a few of them took out their phones and took pictures of us.

The rest of the group had to go immediately after that so it was just me and Tende let with 5 other bikes plus our own. Before I had never seen a Masaai warrior cycling a bike or wearing a helmet and from public reaction, I don't think it is a common site.

While on the footpaths beside a main road, Tende, 2 Masaai and I started racing. We decided to stop when someone with a huge cart of straw walking against us on the path almost had 4 bicycles crash into it. After some quick thinking and skidding, we all laughed. Tende asked me if I would like to take a small detour back home. I said ok and asked if the Masaai knew it was a longer way, he said no. We cycled through some very small lanes around houses.
I think there were 2 Masaai crashes in them, was quite funny. When I said I was completely disorientated and had no idea where I was, I asked Tende if that was the point (so the Masaai wouldn't be able to find the house again if they wanted) He laughed and said no.

When we got home, it was already after 4pm so I didn't have any recovery time for my last game of football in Dar. I was wrecked after the football to say the least !