Tuesday 29 January 2008 Stepping onto the pier, it was now the first time either of us had set foot on African soil - well concrete anyway! The docks were chaos. There were people, trucks, boats, cars and MORE people going every which way. There wasn’t really any signage at all to speak of so we just followed the crowd who were in turn following people, who looked like they were official in some capacity, that were yelling at everyone. Once all the tour groups had disbursed to their buses we found ourselves alone in a scene of chaos, with no map, with no local money and having no idea where to find the train station. Searching the docks we found what we thought was a currency exchange booth - and we were thankfully correct. We
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