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By le_flow
December 15th 2007
A calm surface Africa » Rwanda » Ville de Kigali
Glimpses of Rwanda. 7:th of December to 15:th of December 2007. [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 5th 2009 | 775 Views | [diary=360321]

Etogo-togo drivers
Kivumu
Kids Gikongoro

By le_flow
December 7th 2007
The Pied Piper of Bujumbura Africa » Burundi » West » Bujumbura
Moments in Burundi. 30:th of November to 6:th of December 2007. [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 30th 2008 | 424 Views | [diary=247832]

Shepherd
Palm oil
DANGER

By le_flow
November 30th 2007
The Wild West Africa » Tanzania » West » Kigoma
Southern Tanzania
Southern Tanzania
A typical house in Tanzania's Southern Highlands.
The road was long and beautiful. It winded over gently undulating semi-savannah, across the Fipa-plateau, past small friendly villages and through deep and damp forest. Wouldn’t it have been for a twist of fate we would never have discovered that exceptional stretch of bad gravel and instead we would have been chugging up Lake Tanganyika on the legendary steamer MV Liemba. The steamboat had been both scuttled and salvaged from the depths of the lake and was soon about to turn 100. Since it was put back in service in the mid twenties it had faithfully taken passenge [View Full Entry]

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1931 Words | 7 Comment(s) | 40 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: January 23rd 2008 | 1287 Views | [diary=238353]

Andersson Simbeye
Camouflage
MV Liemba

A graceful meal
A graceful meal
Serving some first class greasy grub in Salima. Mama Grace knew how to keep the punters coming.
Narrow strips of sunlight broke through the badly constructed walls of the shack - which according to its’ sign - claimed to be a RETSULAUNT. The floor consisted of evened out cow-dung, a greyish-brown sense of cool, on which I lay flat on my back, trying to soak up as much coolness as possible. Outside the day was sweltering and languid. The men of Karonga sat chattering on rickety benches in the shade while the women sat in the belching sun outside the rice mill, with their heavy sacks of produce. Aili lay next to me on the ground and was [View Full Entry]

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1832 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 45 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: January 5th 2008 | 1742 Views | [diary=233050]

No space to waste
Mending time
Everyday life by the lake

By le_flow
October 7th 2007
24 hours Africa » Mozambique » Southern » Inhambane
Girl Power
Girl Power
Women fishermen, using small funnels in the swamp to catch kapenta.
00 :12. The sound of a dentist’s drill penetrating my temple wakes me up. Covered in sweat I sigh, it's just a dream. It’s not a dentist’s drill; there are mosquitoes in the tent. A wild hunt begins and ends in handclapping, then silence. 02 :23. Something has awoken the dogs. Loud barking ricochet in the distance as every dog in the village joins the cacophony. A dog yelps as his owner gives him a kick. Then silence. 03 :51. The roosters begin. It’s still long before sunset but these puffed-up poultry must be from a different time-zone. The volume and [View Full Entry]

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1458 Words | 3 Comment(s) | 46 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: December 11th 2007 | 1541 Views | [diary=225921]

Sketch of Zimbabwean refugees.
The neck-breaking art of vegetarian chicken soup
Vilankulo

A divine Welcome
A divine Welcome
The priest at the Shri Sanathan Mundal temple. He was constantly friendly, happy, smiling and calm. One of the most balanced humans I've ever met.
-“You are the reincarnations of Lord Varuna and Lord Vayu”, the priest at the Shri Sanathan Mundal Temple in Stanger, told us. We looked at each other in disbelief. -“Don’t you worry, you’re just not aware of it yet, but I’m 100% sure.” He said and smiled as we nodded hesitantly. -“Of course you must stay with us here at the temple tonight, together with the other Gods. I’ll first go and have my wife prepare us some chai.” He made no sign of joking and disappeared, skipping up the s [View Full Entry]

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941 Words | 4 Comment(s) | 36 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: December 4th 2007 | 2187 Views | [diary=223383]

In with the new
ISKCON
dhamma Discource

"Cycling" the Wildcoast
"Cycling" the Wildcoast
A most enjoyable memory from the Twine, north of Nkanya.
I copied the tidal-charts for the coming month, made a list of all the rivers we would encounter and stocked up on lightweight food and fresh water. Our plan; to cycle the Wildcoast along its coastline, appeared quite straight forward we thought as we studied maps and read up on Xhosa-clans and their traditions. My list of rivers numbered 42, of which 20 were blind, one had a bridge and yet another one was bridged by a car ferry. Out of the remaining 20, nine could be crossed at low tide without swimming, another nine rivers had to be crossed during [View Full Entry]

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2098 Words | 4 Comment(s) | 40 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: November 18th 2007 | 994 Views | [diary=220315]

Nosizile Krwice
Crossing the Nxaxo
Da(i)ry adventurers

Sketch of happiness
Sketch of happiness
The cheaper ones pleasures are, the richer one is. If you can feel total happiness just by meeting a few weird white guys with cameras, I think you're richer than those white guys with their expensive... [more]
It had been a cold night with little sleep. I looked out of the tent and found Mr Seja scraping off frost from his tent and efficiently packing his belongings into his red German rental car. We'd met him one day earlier as we - resembling two bagladies - had dragged our plastic-bagged belongings across the border at Maseru bridge. He was efficiency personified. Punctuality, rationality, German humour and break-neck driving skills all in one. With him behind the wheel we managed to see half the country in less than a week. - "Bloody cold wasn't it?" I called out, looking [View Full Entry]

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794 Words | 6 Comment(s) | 39 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: October 27th 2007 | 1335 Views | [diary=214163]

Dam(n) Cold
Horse man
The Katse Dam

The journey went uphill
The journey went uphill
Overberg backroads.
So strong was the smell of the green rolling hills that it literally attacked me with childhood memories. I wasn’t cycling through the verdant valleys of the Western Cape, I was cycling down memory lane. Through an outdoor childhood spent at my grandfathers farm, running through the high late-summers grass, pulling pranks with my grandmother as she carried firewood down to the house and eating bedtime sandwiches and drinking hot chocolate while listening to my father’s many stories. This was cycling. Never before while travelling had I felt so free. No bus to catch in [View Full Entry]

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498 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 33 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: October 16th 2007 | 1008 Views | [diary=210843]

Through the valleys
Along the coast
Past open fields

Winter had arrived
Winter had arrived
Romance was gone
Something had changed back in Cape Town. The winter had arrived and with the winter there was a change in mentality. The hordes of German tourists had left the city and Long Street - that busy, loud waterhole for the Bazbuz crowd had calmed down to a pleasant evening stir at weekends only. The strollers (as the begging street kids call themselves) were busy storing glue underneath the man-hole covers, and the homeless added extra sheets of cardboard paper to their beds. Truly there was winter in the Mother City and it affected all its inhabitants, but t [View Full Entry]

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1115 Words | 2 Comment(s) | 22 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: October 14th 2007 | 916 Views | [diary=201336]

Long Street Blues
Windowshopping
All of us!



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