(11) A not very sturdy Bridge
Bridge that we had to cross a few miles after the river. Needless to say, I promptly got off of the motorcycle and walked across it, arms outstretched.
(12) Pygmee Child and Motorcycle
(13) Sister and Chicken
We rode in the front of a truck on the way back and carried (I am not joking) in the back: a mass of luggage, several containers of petrol, one live goat, 5 live chickens, one live duck, several cocoons of caterpillars, one whole smoked monkey, one sister, one old woman, one mechanic, and a spare tire.
(14) The Thinking Man
Our driver ponders how to get the massively heavy truck from out of a sandbank. Later down the road, we are stopped for an hour because the car won't start. It turns out there was a loose wire on the car battery.
(15) Yum, Grubs
Upon my arrival, we buy a few grubs for dinner. I tried these a few months ago, in the interest of science, and found them pretty gross. Now termites, on the other hand, are scrumptious.
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6 comments:
apparently caterpillars are delicious on the barbeque (maybe with a lot of pili-pili sauce...)
OH MY GOD. If you ate any of those I may have to reconsider our friendship.
Beata is quite disgusted! Haha!
I'm so pourd of you. On dirait vraiment que tu viens de la brousse!!! How do those taste?
I like the car... been in situations like that myself... and nothing is as good as a good think (are you sure that *is* what he's doing?)
I love The Thinking Man. When you retire from the Congo you should do something with all these wonderful photos - like create a book.
Wow, those larvae (grubs) look fantastic ! So does the black hen hanging upside down by her feet (hope that's not my cousin Alice).
I'd deepfry those grubs and then douse them with Bubba Shrimp's Louisiana-Style Hot Sauce. Wash it all down with a cold Budwieser (Czech beer, not that U.S. crap). Delicious.
Boy, the butterflies or moths that come from those babies must have a wingspan of 6-feet across. Jurassic Park in the Congo.
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