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Hotel la Versaille Goma

Near la MAIRIE DE GOMA, in the centre town Goma, Congo - The Dem. Repub.

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Goma, The Frontier of Congo

A travel blog entry by sbasgall

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... which were two-story are now one-story with basements. The lave rock is everywhere and is used for building walls and making into brick. Many of the roads are just lava and this makes for a bumpy ride.

It is easier to come here through Rwanda whose border is only ten minutes away than to travel from Kinshasa and many of the aid workers here never get to the capital as they enter and exit through Rwanda. For me to get here, I had to ...

Gorillas Times Two

A travel blog entry by lawyerchick92

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... so I grabbed a drink and got acquainted with a Scottish couple and two gals from the San Francisco who had just climbed Kilimanjaro (and were only too happy to brag about it to everyone who got stuck listening to them).

Anyway, after drinks, we moved into the dining room for dinner. It turned out it was the Scottish couple's 25th anniversary, and the staff surprised them with a bottle of wine, a beautiful cake and a chorus of “Happy Anniversary” ...

Another Surprise Trip to The Republic of the Congo

A travel blog entry by carlton

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... this happened as soon as it was cool enough to walk on. Amazing......the Congo has had a civil war ongoing for more than 30 years and it shows.....very poor people, very hard working through.....shacks on lava with beauty parlors, auto repair shops, food stores, you name it......amazing several hours while we waited for the visas and then drove around and got back to the border with Rwanda before it closed for the night......very interesting day..
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Gorillas

A travel blog entry by carlton

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Today we trekked to the gorillas. Amazing....I'll let Lynn tell the story as hers is a lot better than mine....I had no idea that it would be soooooo strenuous.. The climb was almost 55 degrees up.
We hired a porter to carry our back pack and as it turned out helped me up and down the mountain. It took ...

Volcanoes and exploding lakes

A travel blog entry by jcromie

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... OR's running, though this is rarely feasible given the lack of staff. One of the G.P.'s and I then operated on a 9 year old girl who had come in overnight with generalized peritonitis. She ended up having ileal perforation, presumably from thyphoid enteritis (caused by Salmonella typhii). New admissions were admitted and added on the OR schedule, bumping the cases that we scheduled in the ...

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