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Originally uploaded by carrieteicher

This sign is near a huge baobab tree (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baobab_tree) outside Kilifi, which is on the coast in Kenya near the Indian Ocean.

The sign is telling you, without actually saying it, that this is a special voodoo baobab tree and thus you shouldn’t mess around with this tree because well, then that’s messing around with voodoo.

One of the Kenyan staff members at work wouldn’t come with us to this site because of this tree. In some of the cracks in the tree people stick notes (and rumor has it money and voodoo incantations) –kind of like the notes people stick in the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Interesting.

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