I can't say we were "deprived" at all. Food was basic and good, and I didn't get sick (although a couple of people in our guys had a few minor "issues"). While staying at the hostel, we had a breakfast of eggs, cereal, fresh fruit, toast, coffee (even French-pressed, thanks to Greg).
We would then get lunches packed for us to take to our "job sites", and these were the same every day....and which we learned to share because it was usually too much! We had chicken, a boiled egg, fruit and fruit juice, cookies, sausage stick, plus cold French fries. Sometimes we would gather what we had not eaten and gave it to the other workers or preschool children, who loved our generosity!
And dinner always started with a pureed soup of some sort, whatever vegetable was left over from the night before, I think. The main course was either beef or fish (although sometimes we were not entirely sure what it was....goat?), cucumbers, tomatores, rice or potatoes.
We couldn't complain.
As for the water.....we always drank bottled water, which we had plenty of.
One night in the middle of our work week, we were able to visit an actual resort, catering to the Safarri tourists. It was beautiful and such a treat!
Tropical plants....
coffee plants.......
.....and walking paths were a treat to explore.
We felt we were in another world, seeing a whole different side of Tanzania! And the sunset brought all of our cameras out!
We enjoyed a buffet dinner, complete with ice cream. Our dear African friend and translator, Peter, had never tasted it before. In fact, he had never been to such a place, growing up in a farm family near Karatu. It opened his eyes and his heart to want to return to school to learn to work in the tourist industry! And with his learning English, we are hoping that we can help him with this opportunity.
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