Kenya and Tanzania -- Oct 2012 -- Part I of III

The "plaster" walls of this house are made using cattle dung. Apparently, the soil in this particular area does not have characteristics that enable it to be used as mud bricks or even as this type of plaster.

The framing inside the walls is made from a mat of woven acacia tree branches. The shape of some of the horizontal branches within the wall is visible in the form of ridges in the surface of the outer walls.