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After Emily and I taught our classes today, we came home to a couple of rather restless boys – so after lunch and trying to find some things to keep us busy Joey had the thrilling idea of crossing the river and going to the village on the other side. It sounded like a wonderful and worthy adventure and we set off.
The adventure started with a boat ride! This awesome man spends his day sitting at the river giving people rides from one side to the other in a boat that was made from a hollowed-out tree. There are no seats in the boat, so if you want to sit you need to make sure that someone sits across from you – otherwise you’re not going to make it across the river dry.
This is the boat we cross in! It's awesome!
So we get off the boat and we honestly thought we would walk right in to another village… as usual, we were SO WRONG! Of all things we walked into a mining field… definitely not expected!
This is a random little hut that we found - it just seems like a sort of resting/changing place for the workers. Not the original outhouse we thought it was.
But there were a couple of trails headed off into the forest. So once again, thinking that we’d just take a jaunt for a few minutes and then end up in the next village. Well, we really don’t know this place because every assumption we’ve ever had has been completely wrong.
We actually ended up following this single-file path for a good hour. About half-way through I was sure we were never going to get anywhere, but Joey just kept saying, “It’s gotta be close! Come on! We’ve gotta find it!” And finally, after about 50 minutes we started to see signs of human life. Wrappers on the ground, chickens, goats… our spirits soared! We knew we’d found it!
10 minutes later we walked out onto the road of the tiniest village we’ve seen yet.
We later learned that it is called Akakom.
Did you enjoy your tour? We did! :)
We walked across what we could see of the village in about 2 minutes, and I’m pretty sure that all 50 of its citizens came out to see the “obronis” who had stepped in for a visit. Luckily though, they did have a little tiny shop where we were able to buy refills of water for 5 pesewas (about 3 and half cents) each so that we could make the long journey home.
Going back actually went much faster, and luckily (as usual) we made it back just in time for the rains to come. We had quite the adventure though. We discovered many new species of bugs and plants, admiring the scenery of this tropical land as we went.
Can you see the beautiful red bird in the tree top - I love it!
This tree is HUGE! The picture doesn't even come close to capturing it.
This centipede is only one of MANY very large and gross bugs we have sighted here
Black and yellow grasshopper - Sweet!
Interesting fruit - we think it's something like a pomegranate.
The bamboo forest! This was a fun little place to find down in the river bed. I felt like we were in a sort of enchanted forest.
Huge piece of bamboo
As we realize now that walking to the next village takes some serious time, hopefully from now on we will start asking more questions before taking off on another unplanned adventure.
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