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The Camera incident in Point Noire
... into Ponte Noire. I walked through rather wealthy suburbs. There is plenty of money here. I noticed more white people than I have seen since Spain back in March 2012. Not many smiles though. Must be serious business.
Oh and Chinese people here too. After a few months of mainly one race, it is interesting to see others (i.e. Caucasian and oriental).
I snapped away with my camera oblivious of my impending ...
Deep into Africa without a visa!
... had tried to obtain our Angolan visas in Ghana, Togo, *****ia, Cameroon, Dolisse and now Pointe Noire. We had spoken to other tourists who had been waiting for four months to get their visas. We even spoke to a local bar owner who was Algerian and as a Congo resident, could not get a visa for Angola so that he could go to the African Cup of Nations in Cabinda, Angola. Angola clearly was a country that didn't want tourists to visit. We had tried so many times and had finally run out ...
"This is it !"
... verschuiven naar begeleiding, uitleg en duiding. Parallel moet ik ervoor zorgen dat ze ook zonder mij voortkunnen, en hen de weg tonen naar ‘on-line’-hulpmiddelen, nuttige telefoonnummers, websites met belangrijke informatie, ... Hun eigen management zal ik met een inleidende cursus nog ‘blauw schilderen’ en daarna redden ze het wel op eigen kracht. Nog amper twee weken resten mij hiervoor. We zien wel hoever we geraken.
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Easy Day
... cities’ in the world. The Chinese are here though and making a pretty good job of making this a great road. Unfortunately, the bits that were complete were patchy (a few kilometres here, a few kilometres there) and were separated by appalling mud-baths. Our vehicle did not get stuck in this quagmire, thank goodness, but we got held up by some ...