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Two days getting here from Wukro. On Friday, no less than four buses, although thankfully the three short stages were on the first paved roads I've seen since Dire Dawa in mid-August. A train of about 40 camels walking beside the road, later a glimpse of about 20 camels massed together in a wadi, and near dusk a herd of camels filled the road forcing the driver onto the shoulder.
Saturday at 5:15 I found a crowd of people waiting in the dark outside the bus station. we all crowded in when the gate was opened, then I waited till 8 for the bus to leave. Though it's barely 200 km, it was another long, bumpy, gruelling ride, ending ay 3:30. I shouldn't complain too much though: seated behind me were a man with a huge wound over half of his forehead, and a woman, perhaps with broken ribs, who moaned throughout. They had just been released from hospital after a bus accident a week earlier in which seven people had died. The driver is said to be in prison.
If you were a bit fragile, this was a trip that could give you broken ribs without overturning the bus.
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