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Street view from room #229 at 6:30 am Hotel corridor of 2nd floor Pool view by night outside hotel

Hotel Memling Kinshasa

5, av. du Tchad, BP 68 Kinshasa, Congo - The Dem. Repub.

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A REAL Congo Line......

A travel blog entry by jenniferabbott

... We found some beautiful prints and I am going to have some clothes and other items made here before I leave. The Congolese dress so colorfully and beautifully! Our chauffer decided to follow his own directions instead of listening to me so we got separated from Pepe for quite awhile and were left wondering around Commerce Street without a Congolese escort. This set us up for a bad situation. Pepe ...

Stillettos in the Jungle

A travel blog entry by jenniferabbott

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... excitement I did on my very first day here. I was alone in the backseat, my driver in the front, so I felt some sense of being alone with my thoughts. I actually felt wetness on my cheeks and realized tears fell from my eyes as I contemplated Congo and her people. I am filled to the brim with thankfulness and gratitude for the opportunity to be here this year, at this moment in time. It has forever changed me and ...

Sabbath in Kinshasa

A travel blog entry by joelmeeker

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... participate in the work of the Church in their country. We also talked about current events, the challenges facing the Congo, some of which go back to its origins as a colony belonging to Belgian King Leopold II. If you want to understand the tragic beginnings of the Congo colony, I can recommend a book called King Leopold’s Ghost, by Adam Hochschild. It is grim reading, but precise documentation of man’s inhumanity to man. The main plague ...

Long day's journey into night, and morning

A travel blog entry by joelmeeker

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... wait to check in. I decided I’d have to see if I could pick up at least one good long book in Nairobi. Reading makes the time pass quickly and can useful as well.

While waiting, I also chatted with an older Danish couple who had been teaching modern small-farm techniques in rural Burundi. They have a small farm in Denmark, and so were able to pass along many useful bits of knowhow. It was their 6th or 7th trip; they really enjoyed helping as they ...

Mellan hopp och förtvivlan

A travel blog entry by surrburken

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... gen och göra den någorlunda farbar för vårt för denna stig något för stora fordon. Vi fyllde igen gropar, flyttade stenar, släpade stenmattor och hackade bort skarpa hörn i väggarna längs vägen för att öka Roxys svängradie. Under ett par timmar snittade vi ungefär 1 kilometer i timmen, och för dagen kan vi inte ha gjort mer än 3-4 km/h. Dock skall sägas att vi faktiskt hade tur att vägen var snustorr och så pass bra som den var. Hade det regnat hade det varit ridå.

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