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<title>Travel Blog | Josh and Martina</title>
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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from Josh and Martina</description>
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                    <title>Back to "civilisation"</title>
                    <description>As you might imagine my travels in Africa have reached an end and I have made it home safe and sound.  The caption for this entry is intended utterly sarcasticallynearly four months in Africa and the worst thing that happened was someone triedvainlyto pickpocket me at the Lilongwe market.  The second I make it to Rome my passport is stolen  As a result I missed all my flights and spent mor</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-198151.html</link>
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                    <title>Last week at the camp</title>
                    <description>Congolese dancingAnd I have no rhythm... This past week was my last working week this summer which is totally nuts On Tuesday I gave a 3hour  workshop to the camp's teachers on children's rights. There were about thirty of them some Malawian and some refugees. I studied children's rights last fall but we focused entirely on U.S. law so I had to spend some time last weekend reviewing the inte</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Central/Dzaleka/blog-176213.html</link>
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                    <title>Miriwe</title>
                    <description>Turn off from main road to camp road Or good afternoon in kinyarwanda. I have attached a video of the reaction I get when I try to speak that language with people in the camp. My friend swears they laugh because they are shocked to hear a mzungu speak it but I am quite sure it's because I am saying it wrong  Its been a while since I had internet because I pretty much spent all of the last wee</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Central/Dzaleka/blog-173183.html</link>
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                    <title>Burundian lunch</title>
                    <description> Well as if the hassle with the immigration lady wasnt enough I am now getting trouble from the government I went to seek their cooperation in communicating to refugees who havent filed their claims yet that I would be available to help them and was told that a refugees story is a secret between the refugee and the government. I was pretty baffled and told the official that I would thin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Central/Dzaleka/blog-167369.html</link>
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                    <title>More stories from the camp</title>
                    <description>     Great news Sourires rejection was reversed by the immigration official. I was with a couple of her classmates who are also going to study abroad with her when we all found out it was especially exciting for them since none of them was really able to feel good about their own approvals until they knew Sourire would be going too.       On Tuesday Elodie took me around the camp to meet so</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Central/Dzaleka/blog-167282.html</link>
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                    <title>Malawian lunch</title>
                    <description>Mada scooping nsima Well to give you a quick update about the case of Sourire the immigration official decided to reopen her case. She swore up and down that it had nothing to do with the pressure that had been brought to bear by us and others claiming rather that she had been apprised of new information. But there was no new informationexcept the information in Sourires file which t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Central/Lilongwe/blog-167272.html</link>
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                    <title>Something of a rant</title>
                    <description>Food stalls at Dzaleka Well I confronted my first real challenge here in a nearattorney capacity. Today a group of fifteen students who have been approved for a program to study abroad in a Western country had their interviews with the countrys immigration official to determine whether they would gain refugee status there. No student approved by the program has ever been rejected by the coun</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Central/Lilongwe/blog-164835.html</link>
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                    <title>Settling in</title>
                    <description>Mwezi marking Greg's laptop Thursday I spent another day meeting with Mike all day since it would probably be our last office day before his departure Friday is a camp day. In the afternoon we had a birthday party for the outgoing country director who is moving on to work with refugees on the U.S.Mexican border. One of the Malawian teachers at the camp Isaiah brought music he had composed </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Central/Lilongwe/blog-164824.html</link>
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                    <title>First day at the refugee camp</title>
                    <description>Dzaleka kidsWalking through Dzaleka camp market On Wednesday I was picked up near my house to head out to Dzaleka refugee camp which is a little over an hour from Lilongwe. The proximity to a major urban center is something that makes Dzaleka unlike most refugee camps which are usually very isolated. It is also a very established camp which many of the refugees most of which fled the Rwandan g</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Central/Dzaleka/blog-164592.html</link>
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                    <title>Lilongwe</title>
                    <description> By Tuesday I was starting to feel pretty isolated from real life here. I had only been driven around in SUVs eaten at places most Malawians could never afford and been in supermarkets with brands like Heinz and Ceres  all imports. So I decided to venture out to the Old Town in the morning. Our housekeeper Mary walked me to the place where I would catch the minibus to work from then on and</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Central/Lilongwe/blog-164577.html</link>
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                    <title>Kwuli bwangi</title>
                    <description> I wont bore you with the details of my flights to Malawi other than to mention S. African Airways serves a mean breakfast Ill just start with how it went when I got off the plane in Lilongwe. It was a gorgeous day and the weather was really pleasantwarm and breezy. I was in a really good mood until we got to customs which was extremely chaotic and very slow. Id say I was in line f</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Central/Lilongwe/blog-164523.html</link>
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                    <title>Last day in S. Africa</title>
                    <description> On Saturday morning I left for Durban somewhat unenthusiastically given the negative reviews Id gotten from people. I actually really ended up liking it. It felt a lot like Cape Town but with a Miami twistthere were palm trees everywhere and a really nice long beach lined with pastelcolored hotels. I happened to be there on the day of some huge rugby match so all the cars were honking an</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/KwaZulu-Natal/Durban/blog-163514.html</link>
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                    <title>The Mantis and Moon</title>
                    <description> I had planned to head directly to Durban from Coffee Bay but most people tourists and S. Africans alike advised me to skip it and stay at smaller villages along the coast so instead I went to the Mantis and Moon hostel in Umzumbe about an hour and a half south along the coast from Durban. Its a oneofakind placeyou basically feel like youre in the middle of the jungle. I originall</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/KwaZulu-Natal/Umzumbe/blog-163485.html</link>
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                    <title>Paradise</title>
                    <description> After JBay I moved on from to the Wild Coast in the Transkei region which is quite a bit further up in the direction of Durban. It was a 9hour bus rideouch But it left so early 530am that only half of it was during waking hours anyway. As usual I had two seats to myself so I was able to curl up and complete my nights sleep. I reached Mthatha which is a town inland from Coffee Bay wh</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Eastern-Cape/Coffee-Bay/blog-160045.html</link>
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                    <title>JBay</title>
                    <description>I didnt make the 230pm bus to JBay I was originally planning on taking I was enjoying the Knysna waterfront too much so I caught one at 4pm instead which unfortunately meant getting into JBay soon after dark.  The owner of the hostel I was going to stay at Jeffreys Bay Backpackers came to fetch me at the bus stop.  The hostel is a very cute little place on the downtown end of Jeffrey</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Eastern-Cape/Jeffreys-Bay/blog-160044.html</link>
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                    <title>Knysna</title>
                    <description> Knysna has probably been my favorite place on the Garden Route so far. The bus dropped me off right next to their small waterfront which is really lovely  it overlooks a lagoon and a mountain range in the distance and its more mellow than Cape Towns.  I walked toward the main street trying to find my hostel all uphill by the way but no one seemed to know exactly where it was and with</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Knysna/blog-160040.html</link>
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                    <title>Mossel Bay</title>
                    <description> As you have probably gathered I am making my way up the coast from Cape Town. After three days there the plan has been to pretty much hop from one town to the next on the major bus lines here which are fantastic. They have a super efficient baggage system so I can feel totally comfortable putting my two huge backpacks in the luggage trailer. They give you tickets for each bag and unlike at mo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Mossel-Bay/blog-160033.html</link>
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                    <title>Stellenbosch</title>
                    <description> I got up around 7am Friday morning to head to Stellenbosch which is in the winelands region just outside Cape Town and home to S.A.s main university. I took the Backpacker Bus which charged R180  about 27 which ended up being basically a private taxi ridethey picked me up at my hostel at the designated time and drove me straight to my accommodation in Stellenboschand I had the van </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Stellenbosch/blog-160028.html</link>
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                    <title>Cape Town South Africa</title>
                    <description>Long Street at night After spending a relaxing night in Amsterdam at a really cute place Hotel Clemens that boasts the smallest room in town without question a viable claim. I had an 11hour flight to Cape Town on KLM. It was as good as such a long flight can bethe food was delicious and I had access to something like 50 movies on demand of which I think I managed to watch three intersper</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Cape-Town/blog-159337.html</link>
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                    <title>Back at Cinnamon Bay</title>
                    <description>So we woke up early and made it back to St. John with very few problems other than late taxis and delayed ferries. We went back to this place called Shela's Pot for lunch and some local flavor. It was recommended to us by our fellow group siters back at Cinnamon Bay after we'd complained we hadn't had a real Caribbean meal and it did not disappoint. It's basically a small stand on the main square</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-John/blog-136811.html</link>
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