Kategorie: Allgemein
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MFF Project #3 – in Kibera
I experienced poverty in the streets of Mumbai, saw slums in Latin America, we were in Soweto and Katatura. Nothing is enough to prepare for Africa’s largest slum, Kibera. 800,000 to 1.2 million people are supposed to live here on only 2.5 square kilometres . And the railway line from Nairobi to Kisumu runs right…
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Kwa heri, Toyo
With this „goodbye“ in Kisuaheli we leave our faithful travel companion on four wheels with Chris in Nairobi. Toyo was kind enough to get his massive radiator problems right at the beginning of our trip. In many other places this could have been quite dramatic. But then he purred without complaint and once again brought…
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Kilimanjaro
It is not easy to photograph, the highest mountain in Africa. From Tanzania it didn’t show itself at all. From Kenya we succeeded somehow and even got buffalos between Kili and camera. Finally it got really good when we were at the same height. We did not leave Nairobi in a northern direction, but in…
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Zanzibar
An island that contains all the ingredients for an exotic holiday: A place full of mysterious stories, memories of princesses and adventurers, scents of cloves and frangipani, palm-fringed beaches, turquoise sea to the horizon and the fascinating underwater world of the Indian Ocean. A total contrast and at the same time the ideal complement to…
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Stone Town
Zanzibar’s cultural must-see is Stone Town, an UNESCO World Heritage Site. After Zanzibar was first owned by the Portuguese, the archipelago came under the rule of the Sultan of Oman in 1698 and became rich by trading slaves and cloves. Money that helped to build houses from coral stone, a completely new type of construction…
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The Island of Spices
Arabs, Indians, Europeans: The many influences that Zanzibar experienced in its history, are reflected today in the food. Stews, curries, fish in all imaginable variations – refined with the spices that are so numerous on the island. Cardamom is added almost everywhere (even to coffee), and cloves or cinnamon are also popular. We visit one…
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Servus, Good bye, Kwa Heri
Six weeks of Africa are history. It was the shortest of the four Africa trips in the era of the (supposedly) huge retirement time budget. And because it was not only short, but also started late, we sometimes suffered from the rainy season that had already begun. We thank our loyal readers who followed us,…
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„The inexplicable yearning to return“
Wir sind wieder da. Nein, nicht in Afrika. Aber schon mal im Blog. Im November 2019 haben wir Kenia verlassen. Der Kontinent war in unserem Herzen, aber praktisch nicht erreichbar. Und jetzt planen wir wieder. Sehr kurzfristig. Aber auch sehr konkret: Wir fliegen in einer Woche! Unsere Impfung ist so lange her, dass die Antikörper-Produktion…
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G&T
Schon vor der Abreise beginnen wir mit der Malaria-Prophylaxe, zunächst mal in der galenischen Zubereitung, wie dies auch die Briten in der sumpfigen Hitze Indiens taten: Chinin in Soda gelöst, mit Zitrone versetzt und die Säure mit Zucker kompensiert. Und als Lösungsmittel – oder war’s wegen der gefäßerweiternden Wirkung? – natürlich klarer Alkohol. Wir haben…
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LH 590 FRA-NBO
Sonntag mit Taxi-Huber nach Frankfurt und mit Lusthansa nach Nairobi (überraschend gut ausgebucht): Vor zwei Monaten geimpft, vor zwei Tagen PCR-getestet und dennoch acht Stunden Maske. Egal. So hat die Nahrungsaufnahme noch einen zusätzlichen positiven Effekt: Weil sich dabei so schön durchatmen lässt, knabbern wir ein bisschen länger an jeder einzelnen Räuchermandel, lassen die Trüffelravioli…