the following entry I wanted to write to Vic Falls, but then suddenly the Internet failed. In Zimbabwe, works pretty much no more, there is a lack in particular and the country seems to fall so slowly.
So here's the entry from yesterday, was saved by automatic caching:
am now three days in Vic Falls. Today, tomorrow morning the truck is a part of the group broken up in joburg direction. next to me is 9 Koreans stayed in Vic Falls. I wanted to attach a tag so I could celebrate with the group yesterday and still can do some things, just like the visiting the internet cafe. So the tour is over and now I have to take care of everything alone. The first step is planned and will be implemented tomorrow. I am in the morning by 6 clock from the lodge about 5 km over the border into Zambia march. limit of the take I have a shared taxi to Livingstone, and from there a bus to Lusaka, where I was about to arrive at 15.00 clock. The next day, I will then continue to Kapiri Mposhi, because on Tuesday I will catch the train from there to Dar es Salaam.
rest of the booked over land-tour has pleased me extremely. insebsondere the bush camp in the delta okowango for three days was very impressive. lush green areas that are crisscrossed by innumerable wasserkanaelen; animal grass as high as myself and a lot of varied. we have pets but not much more than mass-training (shit) and again saw footprints. in the delta, one moves on to a so-called Makoro - this is a hollowed tree trunk, which the poler with a long ast let 'moves. we could just lie in it and enjoy the surroundings and relax while heavenly ... otherwise we have all day to nap, bathe play sold (despite hippos, crocodiles and 10 meter long Python, which exist in the delta) and funny. It was cool, once again, to have time to muck around and just have to think about anything. It was like being a child again.
Botswana is storybook Africa - it is teeming with elephants and other wild animals right on the roadside, without having to enter a national park must. Botswana is also the land of the donkey for me. I have never seen so many donkeys as there. and of course are extremely stubborn donkey, so that our Many a truck make an emergency stop had to leave so he does not collide with a donkey.
then we have crossed the border to Zimbabwe. the situation in sim is rather absurd and sad. you walk around here with einkaustueten of money through the area, as the sim dollar is worth practically nothing. the highest note is now 10 million, which is roughly $ 2. on each note also an expiry date printed - at the moment of the 30th june 2008. the official exchange rate in banks and hotels is a joke and no change there. 30,000 sim dollars for a dollar you can get official. as the standard prices for the black market rate, would pay for it with the official short about 250 U.S. dollars for a beer! on the market may be its old clothes, sun cream half-empty, broken sandals - that is all that is no longer required - to exchange some very nice souvenirs. The supermarkets are in fact half empty for the local far too expensive and have only an extremely limited choices. it is offered, what's available. we see a gang in the same sort of dust dry cookies, the next the same sort fruehstuecksflocken and the third for such totally overpriced wine from Zimbabwe. It's really a mystery how to survive here.
domestic lebenskuenstler not seem really desperate and do not give up hope for a better future. Perhaps this will change even in march something when the next elections pending. since the previous elections were mostly manipulated, the hope is not that high.
These lines I write to you from Lusaka - the capital of Zambia.
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