Downtown Tarime

Someone requested we show a little of the town we’re in, so here you go. When taking snapshots here, I try not to intrude on the locals. This is not a tourist town and some people resent their photos being taken.

This is a shot of one of the main streets. Not to busy this day, some days you’ll see a lot more people walking, especially on Sunday, market day.

Larry J, here’s where you would take the beef. Most butchers are like this, they display a big haunch showing they are a butcher and they have meat available. Flies are not to much of a problem here, but it’s still good they cook all their meat.

Here’s a BBQ place, and yes I ate there. They will take beef, cook it, cut it into small pieces or cut it into small pieces and cook it in oil. The locals like to eat the small pieces of bone and grissle that come from the cuts of beef they do. They do not do cuts of steak like we do, such as T-bone or filets. They like their meat tough, kind of like hard-tack or beef jerky, it’s rarely tender, although I have had some tender meat.

Here’s a photo of some shops just off the main street. The one on the left seems to deal in bigger lots of articles, such as oil and soaps. In the middle is a tailor shop, and maybe even Mama working one of the foot-powered sewing machines. To the right is a typical bike shop, fixing and repairing bikes and selling new ones.

Here’s one of the larger hardware stores in town. See how many things you can see for sale, either displayed outside or painted on the wall. To the right of the door, notice some rolls of what we would term as light-weight linoleum. That is what they call carpet.

Here are some more shops along the main street. I don’t know what the one behind the pikipiki is, to the right of it is a cement sales shop and it apparently sells some other things. Next comes a fabric store and beside it, a closed stationary store.

This photo shows a typical VW type bus that transports people and goods. They do not waste space here. This is similar to the VW type bus I traveled an hour and 45 minutes in, sitting in the same position for all that time with 28 other people crammed in!

This shot shows the ditch system needed in downtown to handle the torrential rains. It does have trash in it, but I have seen workers sweeping and clearing some of the debris.

The sign above and to the left would say on it Duka La Dawa baridi. Duka is store, Dawa is medicine so it’s basically a pharmacy. For some reason they show baridi on the sign, which means cold, and you usually see that in connection with a store advertising cold pop. Pam and one of the orphanage workers, Teddy, are waiting results of some blood test done on a couple of the orphanage kids. You go in the door to the right, they take a blood sample, and give it to a person to look at in a microscope. The person is in the room behind Pam and Teddy behind the window. When a person’s results are done, they just call out your name and give you your results. TIA, Mark