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Zaria

Written by kevin

Marion and I popped up to Zaria on Sunday to see some of the VSOs who are at the Theatre for Development workshop up there. A few of us then went into town for lunch and a stroll around the old city.

A gateway building with brightly-coloured patterns painted on it. A green and yellow house with bright patterns painted above the door.  A Mercedes is parked outside. A traditional Hausa house, painted white with a sign saying 'Peter's Photo Studio'

The traditional houses in Zaria often seem to be brightly painted, the Emir’s palace (on the left) was the first of these we saw. Strolling through the old city we came across several more in a similar style and also some traditional buildings with more modern uses.

There would have been more pictures but my camera has developed an intermittent fault. Sometimes it seems to be getting no signal from the image sensor, giving all-black pictures. I’m hoping it lasts for my remaining time in Nigeria.

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 1st, 2007 at 09:43 and is filed under friends, travel, VSO.

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