Travelling in Congo is never easy!
This is the taxi which I took from Butembo to Kasindi on the Congo border on Sunday morning, the 10th of March 2013. I was on my way back to Kampala before traveling to Aru and Mahagi.
It was intended that I travel internally in DRC from Butembo to Bunia then on the Mahagi (where Drumo is dentist in our 3rd Clinic) and then on another 100 kms to Aru. However it is rainy season and I was told that a 100 km stretch of road could take me 3 days. Therefore I headed back to Uganda and went the long way round on the bitumened roads there.
Above: this is the Semliki River which is crossed by a locally made timber ferry which carries 6 cars at a time, together with all their passengers. While it was on the other side offloading, we were waiting for two and a half hours for the next crossing , and then after another half an hour crossing we had reached the immigration post and and crossed to Uganda. Then it was another long trip from 11 am to 8 pm before I reached home in Kampala.
The following day I started the journey at half past nine pm from Kampala travelling to Arua which we reached at half past six in the morning.
So that was the end of the first trip.
Next report will be of the second trip.
When I go back I came down with malaria, probably because I think because in some places I slept without a mosquito net, and it wasn't helped by the fatigue resulting from the long trip on “Bodaboda” motorbike on the trip between Aru, Mahagi, and Paidha where I boarded the Bus to go back to Kampala.
That's all for now.
Thanks.
For the CDSI
Timon Grodya Dhego
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