Haiti day 2

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Today Major Lucien took us on a tour of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital city. We drove for a long time up into the hills, passing through the slum areas and watching out of our windows as the tiny block-brick shanties changed into massive mansions - some of which were painted candy-pink! Major Lucien explained that there is a very, very rich upper-class here, called the ‘bourgois’. They live up in the hills where it’s quite a lot cooler and with lovely views. But they are a minority. The vast majority of Haitians are poor and live in very close proximity with very poor facilities and sanitation.

We went to a great look-out where you could see the whole of the city - it’s bigger than what we had imagined! But the biggest tourist attraction for the day was definitely our U-N troops moment. As we were walking out of the lookout a whole convey of troops stopped nearby to do a patrol of the area. I don’t know who was more excited - them or us - when we saw each other! We ran around taking video-footage and happy snaps of them, then they ran around getting photos with us - it was a blast!

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Photos

UN Troops
Lauren with her own personal bodyguards!

Port-au-Prince
Richard at the view-point

A friendly face!
A young boy who followed us around as we toured The Salvation Army’s compound