Notice: Undefined index: limit in /home/www/travelblog.org/html.v3/_internal/rss-index.php on line 26

Notice: Undefined index: location in /home/www/travelblog.org/html.v3/_internal/rss-index.php on line 36
<rss version="0.91">
<channel>
<title>Travel Blog | el Vagabundo</title>
<link>http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/el-Vagabundo/</link>
<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from el Vagabundo</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
<lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:47:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><item>
                    <title>Serengeti Blues or the story of a big Matatisu.</title>
                    <description>It is ten at night in our golden prison Serengeti National Park. And we are bored. Not sure which of us proposed it first but lets say it was Pablo. Night safari SureThe Safari Team didnt get along in the beginning for reasons that will become obvious soon. But adversity can get both the worst and the best out of people and we came together nicely.Tomas and Pablo started the trip</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-316710.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>Snows of Kilimanjaro A tale of Pole Pole while Cuche Cuche</title>
                    <description>As Hemingway said of his piece Im throwing all the truth on this one.It was somewhere between two and four in the morning when my eyes started to go blank and zigzag was the only direction my legs knew. I was conscious but had started to lose control of my body. Congestion was problem bigger than altitude at that point and we had started at 1130 pm only to go up always up.My headla</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Mount-Kilimanjaro/blog-316709.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>Leaving Pagak Final thoughts and the creation of the Payam Development Committee</title>
                    <description>When I signed up for this assignment I was supposed to come and see how the local Development Committee organized by CARE was doing and propose a few ideas for moving forward. Turns out there was no Committee yet. It had not been even discussed.We organized so Mama Hellen head of the compound could propose it to the local leaders. During breakfast the morning of the presentation Mama Hellen m</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/Upper-Nile-/Pagak/blog-301279.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>Before leavingUpdate on a few stories</title>
                    <description>If you followed the blog you will recognize some of these stories1.Dwaich the gigolo driver was allowed to live and no limb was cut. The local court met in public audience to talk about the girls lost virginity and Dwaich family agreed to pay 8 cows around 1200 depending on the cow and to take care of the girl if she turns out to get pregnant. Salomonic deal Well apparently no o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/Upper-Nile-/Pagak/blog-301278.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>Dont mess with the Nuer. Period.</title>
                    <description>People in Pagak already know me. I am after all one of three bognibogni whites in Pagak. All the other NGO personnel are African mostly South Sudanese Kenyan or Ugandan.It is Sunday and Mama Hellen and I are jogging through the airstrip. She cannot run much so I do a few sprints here and there. A few children approach and I start playing around pretending to chase them while the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/Upper-Nile-/Pagak/blog-298763.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>The Road to Yekow How 22 Km. can become an Odissey</title>
                    <description>There are 22km. of road separating Pagak from the closest Payam Yekow. Technically even walkable. In reality not advisable.  Many soldiers some of them kind of nervous roam the area. Foreigners are only authorized to travel with local staff in official vehicles. And by UN regulations no NGO staff should be out of the compound after 630 pm.Reaching Yekow only one of the six Paya</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/Upper-Nile-/Pagak/blog-298762.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>Chiang Mai Elefantes cocina thai y las tribus de la colina</title>
                    <description>Chiang Mai es una relajada ciudad en el norte de Tailandia estacin perfecta para visitar a las tribus de la colina hill tribes.Y es que Tailandia es una verdadera ensalada mixta. En realidad ni los mismos  Thai estan seguros de  donde llegaron y como se instalaron en lo que hoy es Tailandia antes Siam. En el Museo Nacional de Bangkok se habla de 5 teoras de su origen ninguna particularme</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-194569.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>Family matters Nuer style</title>
                    <description>The following dialogue finished only five minutes ago. While working in my office CAREs dining room in Pagak Duony enters the room. He looks at me serious and asks the dreadful questionSo Mario do you have wife in your countryNope whyDuony smiles like somebody that just won the lottery. I have Nuer girl for you. It will only cost you 30 cowsThirty cows</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/Upper-Nile-/Pagak/blog-294520.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>The Elementary School in Pagak will this story have a happy ending</title>
                    <description>Junko is showing me around the Way Station for returnees coming from Ethiopiaand we enter a large tent filled with food from WFP donated by the US and the EU.We have a logistics problem here. WFP is very strict about the use that can be given to the food. But when ADRA told WFP that there were going to be less returnees to Pagak this season and that less than the originally planned food was ne</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/Upper-Nile-/Pagak/blog-294519.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>About the Nuer people and how their social structure was destroyed</title>
                    <description>When I arrived to the Home and Away Center in Juba late of course for the World Bank workshop on Governance the first speaker was already talking and he talked for around hour and a halfabout everything history decentralization governance the war.The perfectly dressed gentleman delivering this speech originally scheduled for 20 minutes was South Sudans VicePresident Riek</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/Upper-Nile-/Pagak/blog-294517.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>What the hell I am doing here and why it might be way harder than I thought</title>
                    <description>What the hell are you doing thereIm getting this question a lot. When I got in touch with CARE John Perry the Program Coordinator explained that they were considering applying the Participatory Action Research PAR not to be confused with PRA methodology to their programs in Upper Nile. They needed somebody to come and assess the challenges of doing PAR in this area. This was very m</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/Upper-Nile-/Pagak/blog-294516.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>Bye bye Jubalicious hello Nuer country first shocking encounter</title>
                    <description>It is 8pm and dark already. Tomorrow Im supposed to fly to the border.. but am IJustin is driving the CARE mobile like crazy. It is clear he does not know well how to drive it. Justin please stopHe barely stops the car in time. In front of us the SPLA soldier is shouting and pointing a rifle on us.The whole thing started last night when Justin logistics officer at CARE realizes th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/Upper-Nile-/Pagak/blog-294515.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>'Quickies' from Juba and Nairobi</title>
                    <description>Its time for a series of short anecdotes in Juba and Nairobi Enjoy1.In Juba our Kenyan roommate had moved a day before and every time we had to talk to him Martin and I were addressing him as Kuma. Kuma here Kuma there A day later at the table Martin goes Hey Kuma would you like a coffeeKuma interjects extremely polite Please stop calling me Kuma my name is Kouma. You</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-288409.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>Welcome to South Sudan or Stranded in Juba</title>
                    <description>The plan was to stay two nights in Juba and then to depart to my main destination in this trip my fieldwork in Pagak a small locality along the SudaneseEthiopian border. But in this business things rarely work as they are supposed to. Pagak on the Upper Nile region is in the middle of the rainy season and I was told after three hours waiting at the airport that the plane was cancelled due</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/Juba/blog-288403.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>The South Sudan Government and brief history of the war</title>
                    <description>In this blog entry I attempt to provide a little background of how South Sudan became what it is today. I hope to be fair with a population that has suffered too much for too long while adding some spice to the story. You can skip this entry if you are not interested but I think is a tale worth telling.If you like stories like the one of Che Guevara you should definitely read about John </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/Juba/blog-288400.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>A small family reunion with Diana and Dan in the Jubalicious</title>
                    <description>I have never been through immigration this fast anywhere in the world. There is no line just a cloud of travelers trying to reach the single immigration officer and to obtain the needed passport seal. In the same room luggage is deposited and picked up. If it took me five minutes to get out was because I had to tie my shoesSomehow South Sudans customs fitted the apparent contradic</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Sudan/blog-288393.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>The News from Kenya 1. Will this forced marriage be til death set us part  2. The global food crisis and Kenyan farmers.</title>
                    <description>Visiting a show of Kenyan dances the Bomas of Nairobi I realized how deep the recent crisis had hit the tourist industry here when the showcase of the 49 Kenyan tribes started  the auditorium with capacity probably for 1000 spectators had exactlytwo. A blonde British girl and yours truly. Weeks before traveling I saw a BBC report on how reservations for safaris in Nairobi the safari ca</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Kenya/Nairobi-Province/Nairobi/blog-288388.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>Surviving Nairobi First impressions from East Africa</title>
                    <description>Thanks for joining me in the second season of El Vagabundo. This time I will be blogging from four countries in East Africa. The reasonexcuse a Summer assignment with CARE South Sudan in an area that was in the middle of a civil war only three years ago. Looking forward to it.First stop The Green City in the Sun. Nairobi is the quintessential NGO and international organization hub in Africa. </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Kenya/Nairobi-Province/Nairobi/blog-288364.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>En la tierra donde todo empez Etiopia frica de cobre no de bano.</title>
                    <description>Cuentas los genios de National Geographic que Lucy muri como de 13 aos y que ya haba sido madre para entonces. La breve vida de Lucy se desarrollo en el noreste de Etiopia. Aqu mando la reina de Saba. Aqu estuvo o esta el Arca de la Alianza. Aqu gobern Rastafari antes y despus que se convirtiera en el dios Rasta y aqu reenterarn a Bob Marley pronto. Aqu el presidente gob</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ethiopia/Addis-Ababa-Region/Addis-Ababa/blog-197983.html</link>
                </item><item>
                    <title>UGANDA Cuando los hermanos se encuentran</title>
                    <description>El encuentro con Diana en Entebbe fue emotivo para m. El avin que me llevaba a Uganda aterrizo sorprendentemente 1 hora antes de lo programado asi que fui yo el que termino recibiendo a mi hermana en el aeropuerto.Desde hace casi un mes Diana vive en Sudan del Sur que probablemente se convierta en un estado independiente luego del plebiscito del 2011 si el gobierno de Khartoum no p</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Central-Region/Kampala/blog-197981.html</link>
                </item></channel></rss>