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Just got an email back from a company called Temehu which may provide a guide for me. Still I’d rather get an armed security guard from NTC or something… Well, tips are still welcome… ;)

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sorry for the late reply (yeah, just over a yr now).. its just that i don’t get a notification once someone replies and am just too lazy to keep checking….

but anyway, yeah, just for the hell of it! why not. seems like a good way of passing time as any :)

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that first link is a nice one ;)

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Thanks for the intel, I’ll look it up tonight when I have a little more time.

I am getting the impression that this really is proper jungle as I read somewhere that the land-only crossing was a guiness world record which took these guys 741 days! :shock:

By the way the africa trip i was talking about is a road trip by motorcycle from amsterdam through istanbul, middle east, east africa to Tanzania to pick up my car which I left there on my previous trip. The previous trip was roughly Amsterdam to Italy to Tunesia, through the Sahara, through the Congo’s to Tanzania.

cheers
Sjoerd

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I would be worried about the Iraqi visa more then the Irania, but then again, I’m dutch.

I was thinking about travelling through Iraq myself coming from Saudi Arabia, but in the end deceided to drive around it, first the only ‘safe’ regions lay in the north, secondly I would never ever get a visa for Iraq (Iran wouldnt be a problem tough).

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Joran van der Sloot is such a dick!. :(
Gives us dutch ppl a bad name.

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To be honest, I really liked the book. Good job ;)

I corrected some of the text with pen, altough I had the 2008-updated version, some entries seemed to be refering to the 2006 situation.
I’ll send you a list of corrections, whenever I have time.

(btw, I travelled the RN1 road from Kinshasa-Lubumbashi, so I only have corrections for this traject)

cheers

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no, it’s only one wide-angle lens. the 12-54 is a normal zoomlens ;)
but i really use the wide angle a lot.. especially good in cities

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On the road to Kananga, DRC

I forgot what these kids wanted from me.

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oh btw, at Sean, the directions in your congo guidebook to the brazza pillar could be a little better ;) damn..

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unfortunatly the guards who threw me in prison in Lubumbashi didn’t let me take photographs of my cell, that would have been interesting material… (don’t mess with the ANR secret service in the DRC, its not worth it)..

i now traded my primus for zambian Mosi, which is less great, since its smaller at 375ml.. :)

I’ll order my next Mosi and have a look in my photo database of africa so far, maybe there is something interesting there…

see ya..

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Olympus E-30 (four-thirds). 8-13mm wide angle, 12-54mm, 50-200mm zoom, 50mm lensbaby.

This camera (at time of purchase) was the only camera that was state-of-the-art and had a tiltable screen, which is priceless for those difficult-to-impossable creative positions you sometimes have to put yourself in. So I wouldnt want anything else…

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