Ngepi camp
interesting camp site went for a short mokoro ride up the river and saw some hippos and squeaky sand and stuff. no crocs though boo. the campsite remidns me a bit of bintan. at first when you go in its all sand (the road) and we were all thinking, where the hell are we cos all we could see were villages but it turned out to be a really nice campsite a bit like bintan like i said. we went for the mokoro ride, and after that a village walk which was interesting.
at this point i really wondered if i had done the right trip because we really hadn't had as much cultural shock as i thought we would. i'm not even tired yet which to me makes me feel like this trip has been sort of africa for beginners - meaning... one day i will have to come back and do malawi and east africa and stuff which i am told i would love.
the village walk was interesting we stopped at the local 'brewery' as usual but didn't try anything this time (it looked pretty dodge and they didn't offer it to us anyway). the kids were a little bit scary they sort of stood like statues with the smallest ones hitched up on the hips of the older ones and just watched us. the blackest of black skin and really huge staring white/yellow eyes. its was so different from nepal or asia where the kids smile and ask you a billion questions (not always ones you know the answer of)... these kids creeped me out a little! heh. and we saw some of the ladies making baskets and walked around i wish i had been told to wear shoes cos fernando and i were freaking outselves out every time we thought we stepped on something sharp we thought we were going to get HIV cos there was trash everywhere.
so yeah at this point in the trip, i was sort of feeling a bit... i dont' know. everybody comes to africa for different reasons. but everybody comes because they want to see stuff they've never seen, they want to look at things and go gee.. i've never seen that before. or, i dont know, have some kind of experience that changes their life or the way they look at things. its sort of hit me a lot slower on this trip than i'd expected. i'd expected to have been confronted in a very full-on sort of way... but no, its been slow. but good.
