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Back in Nairobi, I found out I needed to reply sooner than expected to some university & funding applications. Horrified by the price of air tickets home, I sent a few faxes and hopped on an overnight bus to Dar... the overnight bit being done at the border post, sitting on my luggage reading most of The Sign and the Seal.
was very hot and sticky. I wasn't feeling good, so spent a lot of my time in a hotel room contemplating if the ceiling fan (which could only be set to 0 or 100%) would stay attached to the ceiling!
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Sunset over the harbour on my last roll of Velvia
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later the same evening, now on Kodak Elite |
through the unbelievably hot Selous park, the world's largest, to Mbeya the next morning.
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Roger (who I met in Dar) and I somehow had a cabin to ourselves, thankfully. My only game viewing on the trip was a few giraffe and some buck rushing past. |
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which was only slightly less hot and sticky down at the lake shore. So we headed up to Livingstonia, the old mission station, ASAP (meaning 3 days!)
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Stone house: the chief missionary built himself a house from stone before deciding it was too much work - all the others are brick. |
Which way to the waterfalls? Really? |
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Ahh, at last:
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Tea and the BBC on the veranda with some English travellers |
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A few days down on the beach at Chitimba, where I bumped into Martin, part of the original Mt Kenya group now working off a bursary re-building the road.
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this stage I was tired and not feeling too well, due to all the Lariam I now
think. I took a pair of busses down to Blantyre, where I hopped on an luxury
air-conditioned reclining-seat (wow!) overnight bus to Jo'burg, via the Tete
corridor (Mozambique) and Zimbabwe (the day after the Zambezi floods receded
over Beit bridge)
3 months
US$1450 plus $600 airfares
70 rolls of film
Show's over, the arrows take you home: >>> ||
| by Michael Abbott (email)
www: July 2000 ©
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