After two weddings and a chocolate fountain, I'm back in the cold shower reality. Until Christmas or so, and I'm determined to do my very best to keep my sanity until then.
On the bright side, it's summer here, and I brought food and wine, so I daresay I shall make it. This is what it takes to make it to Lira:
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| Trucks, bicycles, baboons (motorcycles, cows, schoolchildren, chicken)... all sharing the road |
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| The killer bus approaching |
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| The Nile. Karuma falls. |
And after Christmas... click :-)
Jsjs, can't stop laughing with your comment "The killer bus approaching". Nice shot!
ReplyDeleteTake care, and courage for everything (even for puzzles).
Thanks! It can hardly have other name - I challenge anyone to play chicken game with a huge metallic box at 120km/h on a 2m wide potholed road with eroded ditches on both sides :-D I'm sure you have them in Mozambique too! :-)
DeleteYeah! They are called "chapas" (smaller ones), and I'm taking one of them next Monday to drive 300 km! Yuhuu! Ains...
DeleteThey are probably what they call here a matatu - a Toyota Hiace for 14 passengers, with 25 people and a few chicken crammed inside, and a bunch of bananas, bag of charcoal and a mattress tied on the top? Good luck for the trip! :-)
DeletePerfectly described, but with less bananas here, jsjs. Enjoy weekend! I'll burn Maputo's social life before getting stuck deep in the mato...
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