A burnt out village….. All to typical of Angola.
As we went to Angola, we had to get used to burnt out villages, and dead tanks happening all over the place, and the internal airports were a mass of dead fighter planes beside the runway.
A dead tank in the garden……. No gnomes!!
Also their were beautiful bits of country…….
We camped here…… Amazingly beautiful!!
But we were surrounded by the fact that Angola had just recently surfaced from a 30 year long civil war…. The roads were wide, as people tried to avoid landmines, which were planted in the middle of roads, and bridges were complicated as they all have landmines on them. I knew one of the deminers, who described land mines as the dog that didn’t bite. That is where I got malaria which was an amazing experience. (More about that in this post… https://wordpress.com/post/ozthoughtsblog.com/201).
Nathaniel, as a minesweeper. Facing the camera.
Landmines were mostly very/ small….. To inflict damage, but not to kill.
The other thing about Angola, was the rubbish! It was all over the place.
Disgusting………
By and large, Angola was fun to be in, landmines notwithstanding, and the rubbish, but it was really beautiful by and large, and the politics such as it was, was not a problem for us.
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