Alessandro and Sasha experience in Tanzania-Africa
Telling about Africa is like trying to describe a pleasant dream, a memory of a far world, but able to get you close to emotions and sensations almost forgotten and sadly old fashioned. The astonishment, the emotions, the perception of having already lived in an unknown world, different, slower, but more authentic and more kind. And then, the beauty which overwhelm you, those sunsets which look like drawn by God, the smile of people, especially for westerns like us, get used to running to continously search something, and now unable to notice the gaze of those around us.
From Tanzania I brought with me the love of the people for their own land and the unstoppable desire to narrate its beauty, to show it to us through their eyes, trying to let you feel part of a culture based on the perception of slowness – "pole pole" they say – declined in
the highest meaning, like a tool strained to the pursuit of that time almost lost by us, but necessary for a life with a human pace, sustainable and which allows to feel the contact with the people and the environment.
And then, that idea which encompasses that wording known from a very famous animated film: Hakuna Matata. Much more of a simple phrase, but a concept that contains a way of perceiving the life in which is given the proper importance to things we can change, and things that are not depending on us, without any drama.
Our travel to Tanzania, the first in Africa, has given to us a new awareness. The wealth, the wellness and the "development" are not what make a place safer, and less or more welcoming. It is, instead, the kindness and the simplicity of those who live there
which make a unique and unforgettable place.
