I usually eschew the unsolicited tour guides- especially the kind who just start showing you around with no mention of price. However I would have gotten nothing out of the Botanical Gardens if I didn't have Rafiki hilariously narrating along the way.
"This is a termite mound. It is not advisable for young boys to urinate in the hole as sometimes cobras live inside"
"The water is quite green. It is not advisable to swim in it."
"Jungle first aid- if you get a laceration, find these soldier termites and let them latch on to you to close the would like stitches (demonstrates one latching onto his coat). It will hurt though."
"When you break your nest like this, they get very mad"
Arachnophobia
This is latex. Apparently latex comes from trees.
"African nutmeg. It is very delicious, the only problem is if you eat too much it is a deadly poison."
"This is an elephant apple. It is not advisable to make your picnic beneath the elephant apple tree for fear of head wounds."
This is apparently what chocolate looks like before it is turned into those delicious brown squares.
This is incense- since apparently that also comes from a tree. Rafiki mentioned using incense in church ceremonies. This is not the use that I am most familiar with.
This is a tree that elephants ram so the fruit falls down, they eat it, and then they become drunk.
Apparently you can tell if an elephant's drunk because it walks funny.
These flowers are called Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow because they come in three colors on the same bunch. Apparently putting them in your bath makes you mosquito repellent. They smelled like generic flower to me.
No comments:
Post a Comment