Swahili Cultural decorations for Women

The greatest charm of Swahili women decoration lays within not only the beauty of the woman but the combination of her make ups,fragile and jewels worn especial during different occasions like wedding and other ceremonial events, regardless of wearing a buibui which is well known as veil in English, still these kind of seductive cultural decorations of a Swahili woman can steal the eyes of many around a place.
                                                                         

Hina is one of a must use for Swahili women to decorates there hands and legs with different styles and colours such that it creates a nice combination with dresses and jewels worn by a certain woman, though it needs time and expertise for our mothers and sister better they stay behind if they will miss these services.

Jewels are something special and symbolises someone status in Swahili community, as a sense of pride and shows that the particular woman is well taken care by the husband or coming from a wealthy family. One can put on bungles made of gold, silver or other kind of make up, same with nickles and earrings made of  gold is the most favoured jewel here in Swahili world.

Dresses of high quality design is another must worn item for Swahili women and these started long time ago even during the Indian ocean trade whereby ivory and hides used to be exchanged with cloths and materials from as far as Indian, China and other areas of trade.

Colouring and hair making also is common as most of coastal women are blessed with black long beautiful hairs, oiling the hair and making them with different style contributes a lot on the outer beauty of a Swahili woman and in many occasions women normal celebrate separately with men's but these can be a good opportunity for some women to select the most charming women for there sons for a hand in marriage.

Here in east of Africa the culture of these women is respected and has spread into the hinter land, as majority are Muslim followers they to strictly following Islamic way of living and wearing like covering there heads with hijab and also the legs .when one visiting the coastal area he or she should take time to explore the culture of the people as well.

Kanga is also one of the greatest clothing used by Swahili woman and many other women in eastern and central Africa, these piece of cloths is to used in some events and coastal women mostly a long Tanzania coast like to used it in some traditional dancing and for daily used, it is well preserved for cultural used that many tourist and visitors especially womens adopt it so easily as it is good to wear it in tropical warm climate.

Mosi oa Tunya

 It is a natural world wonder that has click in many mind of explorers and nature travellers lovers, "the smoke that thunders" as well known by the locals inhabitant of Zambezi river region,it is a natural water falls that divides Zambia and Zimbabwe countries and one of the most visited site within the two countries.
                                                                           

                                                                   
Named as Victoria falls by explore David Livingstone in respect to the Queen of England, but still referred as Mosi-Oa-Tunya local and international as well. It's waters come from Zambezi river which flows eastwards towards the Indian ocean and the land here is a flat land such that it is amazing to have such a natural water falls.

On the Zambia side there stand Livingstone township with one main street called Mosi oa Tunya which lead one straight to the Victoria falls bridge and Mosi oa Tunya national game park, on the other side of the bridge is Victoria township in Zimbabwe side.these are is to home to plenty of birds and wildlife.

Around the falls there different activities apart from site seeing and camping on some selected areas, there is elephant walk whereby a visitor can have a chance to ride on an elephant, Bungee jumping along the Victoria bridge which is very interesting and great to experience in life, helicopter tour which  can give one the best view of the area at a short time.

Besides all these activities there is also some water sports including fishing along the Zambezi river, fishing is also one of the locals activities and most of the inhabitants depend on fishing and small farming along these great falls, tones of fish are been consumed in every year by fisherman's.

When come to accommodation for visitors the two sister towns of Livingstone and Victoria on each side of the Zambezi river provide modern equipments facilities for lodges and hotels, there different types of hospitality services depending on a person needs and desire.

Livingstone town which is in southern Zambia is saved with a international airport with connection with many destination including Nairobi of Kenya and Capetown of South Africa such that makes it easy for a visitor to connects direct to Livingstone town, local there is taxi services available and money transfer services like western union such that it easier for a visitor to get services local.

Sunrise in the Archipelago of Zanzibar Island

There is nothing great while one is on vacation in a warm tropical island where the sun rises so earlier as the birds singing, palm trees dancing from the sea breeze and one smells the salty of the majestic Indian ocean sea water.

It can be once in a vacation or in a life of someone visiting the east coast of Africa and explore the nature of creation,here not only the sandy beaches which will attracted a visitor but also the quite sunrise is a very grateful moment of it's own and can not compared with other places around these world.
                                                                                 

What a wonderful scenic as the day break while villages starting there activities, it is a complete different world away from noisy busy big cities where such life is not noticed, right from a balcony of a hotel a person can notice the different kind of sunrise in some parts of these islands depending on the weather and even the hotel environment.

If it happened you are visiting these former slave market centre of Zanzibar and you booked yourself in a lodge or hotel close to villages then you are at advantage to experience the sunrise followed with some activities by the islanders, such activities as palm wine harvesting which is made only during the sunrise and sunset and it's great to see how they do it local right from your hotel room window, another activity is the fisherman's who are returning from the deep sea, they can been seen sailing back to the island shores at a quite distance along the horizon as the sun gradually ascending.

It is also a great time for personal activities like jogging or walking along the beach while expose one body to the early morning sunshine, most of tourist prefer to lay down on sun beds as they sun bath.

These is not only entertaining but also healthy to the body as the sun is also a source of vitamin D in the body and it is free only getting yourself expose to the sun for a while.

There many hotels and lodges around these island and for a photographer to one has a lot of magnificent scenes to shoot at from the villages to the old town streets during the sunrise moment.

Getting around Zanzibar it's easier and Swahili people who are the most indigenous are very friendly people to deal with, there is a international airport in the main island centre saved with international flights with links to neighbour countries cities like Nairobi in Kenya and Johannesburg in South Africa.

Also the language of communication is Swahili and majority of residence can click some few foreign languages as these is a tourist centre, for those coming through Dar es salaam there are ferry services providing service within the main Tanzania commercial hub and the islands.