BBC digger is right but you should use the modern tech and make it an electronic book so all these excellent photos can be seen in full size and colour and if you ever do that put me down for at least 3 copies! Thank you for all these posts.
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BBC digger is right but you should use the modern tech and make it an electronic book so all these excellent photos can be seen in full size and colour and if you ever do that put me down for at least 3 copies! Thank you for all these posts.
That photo is great. The most I ever saw in Asia was five on a Honda bike.
As many of you might be able to tell, I have a well landed infatuation with Mozambique, mainly focused around my wife and her family.
My wife is of two cultures, her mother's tongue is Shangaan and her father's language is Chopi. Both cultures of southern Mozambique. Bear with me here as I want to give the opportunity to experience some of the Chopi culture.
The Chopi are renowned for their music, called Timbila. Timbila is a very melodic music and comes with it's own style of song and dance. It can be heard here on this excellent video:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgZV9nR-m2o&feature=related]YouTube - The Chopi Timbila[/ame]
The opening scenic views are of a place called Quissico, a beautiful locale on the coast north of Maputo, before you arrive in Inhambane Province. If you can travel to Mozambique and line up mid year, each year they have a locally generated Timbila Festival in Quissico which is just wonderful to experience. It is generated by the local people for their own culture; wonderful.
Please excuse my indulgence.
Thanks for that. I'll be in the Inhambane area in June for our school holidays.
So Quissico isn't that far, and I can make it a trip to Praia do Sol.
Maaate...Lekke!Quote:
Originally Posted by jakeslouw
You'll well recognise this view then, overlooking the lagoons at the top of the hill at Quissico:
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Catch the dhow across to Maxixe and stop at one of me favourite restaurants there...the STOP Restaurant, have a 2M or few and order carrangueijo enchada...some stuffed mud crabs.
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A great part of the world.
Obrigado. I can't wait.
and...finally...they have made the media:Quote:
Originally Posted by BBC
Rare lion cubs rescued from traffickers in Somalia | World news | The Guardian
....the story has been adjusted. I know for fact they were brought to one of the gates here at the Airport....not the Seaport.
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Photos from yesterday, taking a convoy through town up to the Mogadishu University and showing some of the building sites that are currently underway for which I have QC responsibility for. Busiest job I've ever had, we have 250 of these type of concrete/blockwork structures in the shape of accom/offices/kitchens to be built in a number of locations across town.
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I've been up to the Uni quite a number of times and previously we'd sat around the CO's conference table. It is in a covered but, unwalled section of the ruined buildings that are currently serving as the Burundian Contingent's HQ.
Interesting to see a stray shot lodged in the table surface:
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The weather is on the change here, with the northward movement of the sun bringing about the diurnal wind shift that comes off the Indian Ocean. It means the humidity is picking up, and the rains will come, along with the mossies; at least the dust has stopped blowing around.
Just had 1000 more troops arrive, with an additional 3000 due before June...busy, busy, busy.
Soviet RPD machine gun?
That reo bar looks like twisted square section, is that right? Remember doing something similar in metal work class at school on a MUCH smaller scale. Looks beautiful.