Trip: Africa 2011
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SIERRA LEONE | Friday, 10 Jun 2011 | Photo Gallery
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SIERRA LEONE | Friday, 10 Jun 2011 | Photo Gallery
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SIERRA LEONE | Friday, 10 Jun 2011 | Photo Gallery
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SIERRA LEONE | Friday, 10 Jun 2011 | Photo Gallery
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SIERRA LEONE | Friday, 10 Jun 2011 | Photo Gallery
Area of Freetown
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SIERRA LEONE | Thursday, 9 Jun 2011 | Photo Gallery
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NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 9 Jun 2011 | Views [804] | Comments [3]
So, that's our Africa trip over :( Thank you everyone for reading all these blogs - I hope the Rwanda ones weren't too much. Mostly good times, only a couple of bad moments, and all in all, the trip of a lifetime (until our next one). Best moments ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 7 Jun 2011 | Views [378]
Next, long trip home to New Zealand. 12 hours to Melborne, 1 hour stopover, 3 hours to Auckland. 4.5 hours driving to Kaitaia. Trying to adjust to freezing cold weather after following the sun for nearly a year. Great to see family including Turkish ... Read more >
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Sunday, 5 Jun 2011 | Views [524]
Dubai, our last stopover before the long journey home. Our room had been booked so we were upgraded to a three bedroom apartment with a washing machine. Dubai full of towering skyscrapers wrapped, without exception, in mirror glass. Contains tallest ... Read more >
ETHIOPIA | Friday, 3 Jun 2011 | Views [814]
To our delight (not) we discovered that on our return trip to Dubai from Rwanda we were scheduled for a 13 hour layover in Addis Ababa - our least favorite city. Ide had the clever idea that as we had to be there anyway we may as well take advantage ... Read more >
RWANDA | Thursday, 2 Jun 2011 | Views [1268]
After observing basket weaving and banana beer making yesterday and visiting the Golden Monkeys the day before, we headed back from Musanze. Before we arrived in the twelve hour purgatory of sallow lighting, seriously bad food, and two inch bugs zapping ... Read more >
RWANDA | Wednesday, 1 Jun 2011 | Views [304]
Today we participated in some village activities - including basket weaving and banana beer making. It was more interesting than I thought it was going to be, and especially pleasant because there were no other tourists there. ... Read more >
RWANDA | Tuesday, 31 May 2011 | Views [456]
Our third hike through mountains in as many days - fortunately not nearly as long as the other two. The monkeys were all around us, but moved so quickly that they were difficult to catch on camera.
CONGO (KINSHASA) | Monday, 30 May 2011 | Views [1641] | Comments [1]
[author: Ide] Disclaimer: if you are offended by foul language or mind me generalizing a bit about certain types of assholes, please skip to the next post. Your pal, Ide On the day after the gorilla trek we were once again at the meeting point in ... Read more >
RWANDA | Sunday, 29 May 2011 | Views [1360]
(narrator: Ide] First let me say that I have yet to get hooked on the social media revolution, as most Facebook friends can attest. Rwanda has been an interesting trip to say the least. From the infrastructure - which stretched beyond the capital ... Read more >
RWANDA | Saturday, 28 May 2011 | Views [1113]
After an average dinner the night before (soggy pasta with ham and cheese), and a really average breakfast in the morning (soggy toast with jam), we headed off to Ruhengari, or Musanze as it is now called, in part due to the President's desire to avoid ... Read more >
RWANDA | Saturday, 28 May 2011 | Views [748] | Comments [1]
The war ended on July 4th, 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) invaded from Uganda. The RPF was formed in 1987 from the descendants of the 700,000 Tutsis exiled between the first violent Hutu uprising in 1959 and those remaining in 1973. The ... Read more >
RWANDA | Saturday, 28 May 2011 | Views [2621]
The memorial also dedicated a section towards some of the other genocides committed over the last century. The Hereros 1904 - 1905 24,000 - 100,000 Herero killed, 10,000 Nama killed Denial of the genocidal campaign has ... Read more >
RWANDA | Saturday, 28 May 2011 | Views [498]
Not one additional peacekeeper arrived in Rwanda before the war was over. Belgian UN peacekeepers were evacuated at the start of the genocide. General Romeo Dallaire told New York that as few as 5,000 troops were needed to instill peace. Instead, ... Read more >
RWANDA | Saturday, 28 May 2011 | Views [2422]
Francine Murengezi Ingabire Age: 12 Favorite sport: Swimming Favorite food: Eggs and chips Favorite drink: Milk and Fanta tropical Best friend: Her older sister Claudette Cause of death: Hacked by machete Bernadin ... Read more >
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