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Butembo, an extraordinary city

Butembo is quite a unique city. With 600,000 inhabitants, it is the largest city in North Kivu. But it grew so fast that it's not even on some maps. What characterises this city is its wealth and prosperity. Butembo and this whole region has been mainly...

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24 janvier 2006

“Nous avons déjà souffert le ZERO DEUX” « We’ve suffered the ZERO TWO already »

There is a woman selling a lot of different pagnes (it’s a 6 yards piece of traditional cloth that congolese women wear) in her shop. I want to inquire on the price, as I may wish to include this to the items we distribute to displaced people. Jeremie:...

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25 janvier 2006

Easy Rider

This is a Chukudu. A very special kind of vehicle. It's not a bike, it's not a car, it's not a truck. A Chukudu is just a typical congolese thing, something that characterises well this people's ingenuity. Cars and trucks are scarce in Congo (I should...

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3 février 2006

“Je suis la carte” / “I am the menu”

So here I am in a res taurant and the waitress approaches. Jeremie: Hello, what can we eat here? Waitress: There is chicken, fish, vegetables, etc Jeremie: ok, sounds good, can you give me the menu please? Waitress: I am the menu (!!!) Jeremie: …… Waitress:...

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14 février 2006

Remember Hariri

A year ago, Rafic Hariri was killed in a terrorist attack. This devastated Lebanon and shocked the world. It triggered what was called the Cedar Revolution. HUGE demonstration all over the country, but it is in Beirut that hundreds of thousands of people...

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18 février 2006

Dolce vita on the lake

Hey, here comes the week-end... And what's our favourite activity then? Well... we have the chance to own a Zodiac (a modest speedboat), so when the weather allows, we find ourselves having fun on the lake. Needless to say it's quite a change of lifestyle...

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20 février 2006

Massissi Picnic

It was a rainy week-end. But it was fun. After an epic saturday night of dancing and drinking, we decided to join some friends on Sunday and picnic in the mountains. Driving west, leaving the lake behind, and one becomes surrounded by stunning hills,...

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22 février 2006

Village tales

A few weeks ago I had the chance to be in the field in a lost corner of the world. In this story the field means the orange sand bumpy road connecting small villages, hills, rivers, forests, and a bunch of tempting landscapes. Waking up early morning,...

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5 avril 2006

Shangri La - DAY 6

Shangri La (also called Zhongdian) is situated at an altitude of 3,200 meters, surrounded by the Tibetan plateau on one side and the Sichuan region on the other. Eighty percent of the population here is of Tibetan origin. This region used to be part of...

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7 avril 2006

Shilin Stone Forest - DAY 7 - La forêt de pierre de Shilin

It's been a weird night. We have experienced the Chinese sleeper bus. Very stylish and tight (chinese size!!!) yet comfortable - it took us from Shangri La to Kunming in 12 hours. A Chinese sleeper bus is made of three rows of beds in two levels. We had...

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10 avril 2006

The sculpted mountains of Yuanyang - DAY 9 - Les montagnes sculptées de Yuanyang

One of the most beautiful seasonal events in Yunnan is the arrival of the winter fog that blankets the valleys and lower slopes of the Ailao Moutains, between the Red River and the border with Vietnam. The verdant moutains rise several hundreds metres...

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12 avril 2006

Shengcun and Qingkou - DAY 10

After a good night rest in Yuanyang, we head to Shengcun, a village 20 kms south. It takes us 20 minutes to get to pronounce the name right ("Tchenssueeea" in Mandarin). The route going across moutains and rice terraces is superb. When we got there, we...

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27 mars 2006

More on China / La Chine, encore

We're now back to Goma. It feels great being home again. Quite another world from where we come from. With all those souvenirs in our minds, we would like to share more with you about this whole experience in the Middle Kingdom. So we've decided to rewrite...

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30 mars 2006

The Naxi - Les Naxi

The Naxi is an ethny of the Tibeto-Burmese family that migrated out of the highlands of Eastern Tibet into Lijiang. The Naxi culture is influenced both by Hans and Tibetans. Native religion was based around the ritual specialist called the Dongba, a kind...

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4 avril 2006

Amazing faces from China

During our trip in China, we've made great encounters. People from different cultures and backgrounds, with an incredible diversity of clothes and facial expressions. Have a look at the photos we've posted in the new photo album "Chinese Faces " Durant...

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6 avril 2006

The Tibetans of Shangri La

The inhabitants of this region have all of the characteristics of highland Tibetan culture further west: barley cultivation, yaks, monasteries, etc. However Shangri La's Tibetans are more fortunate than others as they can count on the annual monsoon for...

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3 juin 2006

Uganda

Okay, let's move a bit from Congo and let's talk about one of his neighbours. Uganda. A small journey there, for 5 days, a bit of a professional trip (we'll talk more about the chimp sanctuary tomorrow) but some time to move around and give a taste of...

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14 juin 2006

Kisoro

The road from Mbarara to Kisoro is a wrinkled path where your maximum speed could reach 40km/hour. The villages are scattered next to the main road and people are busy and very helpful when you ask for assistance and they rarely ask for assistance in...

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4 juin 2006

Meat for sale - Une brochette en chemin

On our way to Kampala, we stop by this small village. This man tries his luck selling his goat brochettes to all travellers passing by. We're not much hungry at that point, and I am not quite sure it's all that fresh anyway... Sur la route menant à Kampala,...

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9 juin 2006

Kampala

traffic jam in Kampala Kampala is built on seven hills, the city center is on just one of them, Nakasero. The top half of the hill is a garden city of wide, quiet avenues lined with large houses behind imposing fences and a golf course. Embassies, international...

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29 juin 2006

Next trip - Prochain voyage

We've made up our minds. Our next trip will be to... India. Given the weather should not be great in the south we'll focus on Rajasthan. Here are some photos on how it looks like. Hope we'll be able to take some as beautiful as those ones... We leave...

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5 août 2006

Moto taxi

Everybody will tell you this in Congo : "Ah vraiment, le transport, c'est trrés difficile!!" (Ah, we're struggling with transportation!!"). This is definitely the case in Kinshasa. One can only admire the patience and resilience of the inhabitants of...

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6 juillet 2006

Dracula - le retour

Voici une news du Congo : "La population de Butembo a manifesté le mardi 27 juin 2006 contre la persistance du phénomène d'extraction du sang humain par des hommes appelés « tireurs de sang ». Ils sont soupçonnés de collaborer avec certains commerçants...

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11 mai 2006

The Mwami palace in Nyanza

Mwami's traditional palace Before the arrival of the Europeans, Rwanda was a centralised state complete with a monarchy. Traditionally, the royal court of the kings was mobile. By the arrival of the Europeans, the palace has shifted to Nyanza. It was...

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25 mai 2006

A pilot project - Un projet pilote

Today I am monitoring a food security project in Komanda area. Since the security situation has improved in this part of Ituri, people start returning home. But often, there's no home. Either it's been burned, destroyed, or being occupied by others. Resuming...

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