Orange Crush Time
If you like Orange Crush, then Tanzania would be a place to visit. And I don’t mean listening to the great R.E.M song called Orange Crush either on your music playing device!
This crazy travel photo was taken at a bus stop on the road to Dar es Salaam on the way from Arusha (the base town for the Serengeti plains where loads of safaris occur).
This sight is a common one throughout Africa and other third world countries around the world – miscellaneous fruit and other produce hawkers wishing to make a living along the bus stop routes – and willing to do almost anything to make a sale. Because they have to make a sale to make a living.
Including trying to sell a large bag of oranges, so you can make enough Orange Crush to last you the rest of your life.
This insane sight would happen every time a bus stopped to pick up or lay off passengers. Actually, some of the orange hawkers would even run after the bus in case a last minute sale would appear from a barely opened window! But I didn’t see anyone hurriedly exchange a few Tanzanian shillings for a big bag of oranges on the run!
Want Some Orange Crush?
Unfortunately, I didn’t feel like eating 50 oranges, or drinking enough freshly squeezed orange juice that would provide me a yearly dose of Vitamin C in one day. This is just another example of what people in the third world have to do for a living. And this is something I wouldn’t want to do so I could earn some money to place food on the table for my family at night.
Other things you can do in Tanzania besides making tonnes of Orange Crush – check out the Hyrax, watch elephants walk through the camping ground at Ngorogoro Crater, and go to the Hairdresser.
Of course, after you’ve had some Orange Crush!
Your adventures are always so interesting. It’s great to see how those people live first-hand, even if it’s not always an easy truth. At least you have access to fresh, nutritious food along the road, instead of bad American fast food. Too bad it comes at such a cost for the people living there.