N'ayant pas pu aller en Chine comme prévu (visa refusé par l'Ambassadeur de Bngkok), j'ai ramené Sabay Dii à la marina de Rebak, en Malaisie, et me suis attaqué à de grands travaux de couture pour occuper le temps, puisque c'est de Kuala Lumpur que je dois partir très prochainement pour un autre voyage, mais cette fois en Mongolie.
Grands travaux car j'ai décidé de faire un immense auvent pour couvrir l'intégralité du bateau quand je le laisse immobile sous le soleil des tropiques. La bagatelle de 45 m² de Sumbrella (un tissus réputé pour sa résistance aux ultraviolets, à la chaleur et à l'humidité). Et de sacrés problèmes techniques pour arriver à coudre de si grands morceaux avec une machine à coudre dont le bras fait seulement 25 cm d'empattement, et dans un espace, le carré de Sabay Dii, grand comme une petite salle de bain.
Mais en rusant, on arrive à des prouesses et j'ai déjà terminé la partie avant (elle va de la poupe au mât) et j'attends le tissus en commande pour passer à la partie arrière. Vous verrez le résultat quand tout sera terminé.
En attendant que mes 25 m² arrivent, je prépare mon sac-à-dos pour la Mongolie.
Donc pas de photos de mer pendant un bout de temps, mais à partir de la mi-juillet, après mon voyage, vous aurez droit à la fois à des images de la steppe mongole et à des photos de Sabay Dii en tenue estivale blanche.
Patience donc
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RépondreSupprimerHello Didier,
Sorry it took so long to reply. Many reasons: I am still digesting everything I have seen and experienced in Africa since it was so packed full. I have kept traveling after Africa (Spain, England) and find very little time to write and think. It is still difficult to compare my previous travels (with Mike) versus travels on my own. It seems many of the fun adventures we had meeting people had more to do with him since he was so extrovert and I am not. How much of my views about each country is tainted by this loss?
With an overland truck tour we covered 14,000 km starting in Kenya (going around Lake Victoria), Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania (with Zanzibar island), Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and ending in South Africa. It was more of an overview of Africa, not having sufficient time to truly meet people traveling so fast. Our guide and driver were both from Kenya on the first part of the trip and from Zimbabwe and Kenya on the second part. It was nice to have locals with us.
What was not so nice were the fellow travelers, mostly millennials who only think of themselves. I hated being associated with people who do not respect others in any way, don’t tip, are rude, don’t mind stealing, etc. Thankfully the beautiful people of Africa made up for this in so many ways, I am still returning with a good impression of this whole adventure.
I heard many positive things about Ethiopia while I was there and hope to be there one day.
I visited Morocco at the end of the 1970’s, my only exposure to Africa. I truly loved Zimbabwe and its people but would not mind returning to any of the countries visited. Zimbabweans have lost so much yet they are so giving and loving (not that the Rwandans with the genocide aren’t). There was just something special about them. The Matopo hills, the cave paintings, the Greater Ruins, the Zambezi river, the waterfalls, the rains – it all felt right.
My second best would be the Maasai Mara area of Kenya. I connected quite strongly with our guide there. So many times it’s about the people. Ben made the place magical and special.
The sand dunes of Namibia were spectacular but the people were hesitant. I enjoyed the sandboarding even if I had never skied before.
I had thought that I could connect better with the people of Rwanda but once they knew I spoke French they did not answer my hellos very warmly. After reading more about the genocide and what the French did, I understood their wariness better.
Ending in Cape Town near day zero (what they called the day they thought they would run out of water) was a little scary but it turned out they had two nights of rain when we arrived so things were a little less dire. South Africa is much more like Europe or US/Canada. There is a lot of money running everything, less of a culture shock to be had there.
Anyway – I only had time to update the blog with the first four countries – so much left to write, research, and think which is difficult to do while traveling. www.svdejala.blogspot.com
I am on my way to Alaska via California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Weather permitting I will also visit the Yukon and the NW territories.
I always enjoy reading your posts when I have internet – please keep them coming.
Thank you for saying hello – much appreciated,
Marie-France