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Wir versuchten noch, von Mayumba aus den Süden des Loango Nationalparks zu besuchen, bekamen aber bei einem Anruf die brüske Antwort, dort sei alles ausgebucht und Camping nicht erlaubt, was bei uns allerdings zu nicht mehr als einem Schulterzucken reichte. Gabun will keine Touristen, das hatten wir inzwischen verstanden. Weiterlesen
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From Mouila, we took a shared taxi via Ndendé to Tchibanga in the south. There were three women and a man with us, and the youngest of the women was a shy adolescent without a decent passport. All she had was a permit to go from Mouila to her village. There was a direct way, a bad dirt road without any public transport, so she took the common route which meant to go to Tchibanga and then change transport directly to her village. That should turn out to be one of the problems on that special day. Another one was the colour of our skin that seemed to be shouting “We have money to spare”. The third problem was the fact that our driver was only a part time driver during vacation time, and that meant that he didn´t know all the police and the Gendarmerie officers by name. Naturally, he bribed them, but they sensed that they could get more than the common angel´s share. Already at the first checkpoint, they started arguing with the girl about her not having an ID card, and at the second checkpoint, they wanted to check our yellow fever vaccination certification. After we had passed the junction with the dirt road to the girl’s village, it got worse. Weiterlesen
Chosen as a Leica Master Shot: My portrait of a Karamojong familiy in Nakapelimoru, Uganda.
South of / Südlich von Lambaréné
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Die bei weitem größte und eigentlich auch einzige Attraktion Mouilas ist Lac Bleu, der blaue See nur wenige Kilometer südlich der Stadt. Er ist direkt mit dem Ngounié verbunden und auf einer üblen Piste in einer Viertelstunde erreichbar. Trotz des trüben Wassers des Ngounié ist das des Sees glasklar und changiert zwischen Blau und Türkis. Im See soll das Wasserwesen Mugumi leben, das über ihn und die Stadt wacht und schon ganze Expeditionen zum Bau von Brücken oder Dämmen verschwinden ließ. Vielleicht war die Meerjungfrau auch dafür verantwortlich, dass der Bau einer Lodge nie vollendet wurde, wer weiß. Weiterlesen
Things to put in your front yard #2 – Deko für den Vorgarten #2 (North of/nördlich von Mouila, Gabon/Gabun)
Things to put in your front yard – Deko für den Vorgarten
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Mouila is indeed a quiet place – not to say sleepy. It is the capital of the Ngounié region, named after the river which is the most important tributary of the Oogué. 30.000 inhabitants are living in Mouila that is linked to Lambaréné and Libreville in the north as well as Ndendé in the south via another Route Nationale. That one is quite good because it got paved by an Italian company in the recent years. Nowadays, more people are using the overland route to go to the south, which means more visitors coming to Mouila. But it is still a rarely visited town in a rarely visited region. In this respect, the lack of any touristic infrastructure and the nearly complete inaccessibility of the beautiful rainforest hinterland might play a role. Weiterlesen
Port Gentil, Gabon/Gabun
Port Gentil, Gabon/Gabun
