Hotel du Centre Bangui

Just 3 passengers take off here at Bangui airport, the plane continues to Douala and Cotonou, it shows pretty well that the Central African Republic is no important destination on the international tourism map.Not yet.According to the department of tourism, around 3000 foreigners visit the country each year, and most of them go to the excellent National parks for wildlife viewing.But the country is not well ...

I have arrived in Bangui, a few days ago, but now I have a shot at the internet! The wait at CDG was not as bad as expected, afterall...I got on the plane and kept going. And now I have gotten sleep and can talk in coherent sentence (in english anyway, the french is still questionable). The airport at Bangui was just as crazy as I had been told it would be, but believe it or not (some of you ...

Well, the past few weeks flown by with the exodus of Tom. Tom is currently in a hospital in Paris attempting to have a kidney stone removed. We had some clear indications that a kidney stone might be present with lingering pain after successfully treating a UTI with antibiotics. I don't know what I would do without my Where there is no Doctor book or the Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine. Seriously, I could at least be a health care worker with ...

I'm working very ******* learning to speak and understand Sango, with mixed results. The title sentence says that Evan has seen 1 rainy season today, which is how you would say that today is his 1st birthday. One of the workers at WWF (Bertain) is letting me borrow a lesson book that he has on learning Sango from English. I'm excited about this because it's much more comprehensive than what I have had to use so far which is ...

... market and there was apparently no shortage. Saturday we met 2 South African tourists that will be staying at the Doli Lodge in Bayanga for 10 Days. They left on Sunday but we will meet up with them again when we get there. The man is a Vet who has written a book on elephants and they like to do adventure traveling all over Africa. I'm looking forward to seeing how their experiences have been thus far. Today we went to the U.S. Embassy to let them know that we are ...

... the kitchen. These are very posh accommodations indeed. There is no hot water and the water pressure in the bathroom makes a water fountain look like a fire hose, but overall it is pretty nice. I don't have any photos from around Bangui because that is not something you would want to do at all. It's interesting getting around. There are some traffic signals but they are completely ignored. There are no sides to the roads meaning that your ...