Day 171: Dimonika
In bed in the morning we take a rough look at the calendar: Today here, tomorrow and Monday in Pointe Noire, then in two or three days across the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo Kinshasa or DRC) and further. We would be in Angola for Wolle's birthday and would have about three weeks there and two weeks in Namibia to sort everything out with the car. It could work and somehow it sounds like the final spurt.
Today we stay here and go on a trip with a few other tourists. We are among gold diggers here! This place not only has a colonial history but locals still search for gold here today. With shovels, hoes, and metal detectors. We don't really get much of the explanations because they're in French, but that's not a tragedy. And maybe we can ask our host Jan during dinner.
The walk is sweaty but still feels good – we don't move enough.
And when can you wander through a really special village with a local and look at everything curiously without it feeling strange?
A little organization stuff in the afternoon...