Monday, February 3, 2014

Dar Es Salaam Fish Market


On one of the days, we visited the fish market in Dar. Since Dar is right on the coast, fishing is a huge source of income for people. Most people go out fishing early in the morning and then continue onto the fish market where fish is sold and often times even auctioned off. We had to be very careful there because there are a lot of pickpocketers that follow us around so our Swahili professor, Paulo, made sure to stay behind us so that he could keep an eye on everyone’s things. Luckily we had no problems. We got to see a lot of really cool fish, squid, and lobsters at the fish market. The lobsters were so beautiful. It’s kind of sad to think that such a beautiful animal is eaten so commonly around the world. Although we saw a lot of cool stuff, I was glad to leave the fish market because the smell was just way too overpowering for me!




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