In the current week we haven't worked much - Tuesday was a president's birthday and Thursday's some religious holiday. We've used these days-off to relax, cook and drive around the country.
On Tuesday we cooked - a beef under the bell (govedina ispod sača). Improvised the whole thing to perfection. Spent the whole day outside, on the terrace, enjoying the sun and a music. Afterwards a movie and my battery was full.
We've decided to take a stroll and see where the two connects. Oh, what a sight it was - on the left a raging cascades, a small waterfall, water splashing wildly and creating a mist and a foam, and on the right a steady stream of water coming from the dam.
It was spectacular. The power of nature always amaze me. We've enjoyed the view for a while but the hunger forced us to head back to the birthday celebration. An unpleasant surprise awaited - a battery of the car was dead, we couldn't start a car. But we were lucky, some Chinese workers were just returning from their job and one of them, who speaks Spanish, helped us get the cables and start our car.
The rest of the day we've spent on one field, catching frisbee, preparing food and relaxing.
On Tuesday we cooked - a beef under the bell (govedina ispod sača). Improvised the whole thing to perfection. Spent the whole day outside, on the terrace, enjoying the sun and a music. Afterwards a movie and my battery was full.
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| Colorful |
I wanted to to do something different on Thursday, wanted to see something else. That day was my friend's birthday and he wanted to celebrate it on a field in a nearby village. He wanted to go out of the camp, to escape all those unwanted guests, so he invited just a few of us for a beer, a bbq and a cooked beans. I announced my arrival in the afternoon.
For the morning I organized a little trip to a nearby river and a dam. It's about 70km from our camp so my Spanish friend and I had breakfast (specialty from El Salvador - fried platana and frijoles, his wife made it) and left the camp around 9am. We didn't have a map, only a story of a friend who was there 6 months ago - and six months here is a long period of time keeping in mind that the whole country in constantly building and the roads are changing all the time, so an adventure was ahead of us.
After an hour drive we've reached a river. On the left-hand side was a wooden bridge and the mountains from which the river was coming. The river was so fast and the rocks looked sharp that if you fell in, you'd hardly survive. We've walked across the bridge, took a few photos and returned to our car from the other side of the bridge.
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| Wooden bridge |
On the right-hand side, some 500m from the spot where we parked the car, was a kind of a hydroelectric power plant. There were signs in Chinese and a workshop in that area. When we asked a guy who was exiting from there is that the dam, he said no. Given that not all Guineanos speak Spanish, and this guy looked like one of them, we decided to drive around and see for ourselves. And it was a small dam, really small. What a contrast it was - a still stream vs a wild river.
It was spectacular. The power of nature always amaze me. We've enjoyed the view for a while but the hunger forced us to head back to the birthday celebration. An unpleasant surprise awaited - a battery of the car was dead, we couldn't start a car. But we were lucky, some Chinese workers were just returning from their job and one of them, who speaks Spanish, helped us get the cables and start our car.
The rest of the day we've spent on one field, catching frisbee, preparing food and relaxing.
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