Re: abfahrt

First News,

We started our trip a week ago. After a long but cosy flight we
arrived on the 27 in Lusaka. We stayed in the Gossman Mission during
the day, a beautiful place, to get some rest and buy some stuff we
would need for the field season but could not be found in Mpulungu. In
the afternoon we then embarquied on a gruesome bus ride to Mpulungu.
20 Hours later finally we arrived at the lake Taganiyka. This bus trip
was the worst I ever been on, however apparently not the worst in the
history of the field trips to the lake. It might have been the longest
yet. We past some car and bus crashes (the bus transported some of
the injured people to a hospital on our way) and had to leave the bus
repeatedly so it could weighed without the "extra" weight of 20 of the
passengers.
From Mpulungu we got a ride on a boat to the Tanganika lodge were we
have been staying since. To arrive here was a real delight after this
tiring trip. A beautiful place…
We managed to get air compressor and solar panel to work and we have
all been diving already. Some of us (including myself) had go through
some gut problems but everyone is well now.
The food is amazing. The fishes are amazing. The lake is amazing.