14 July 2010

People

During my time in Burundi I got to travel a lot around the country, hence see a lot... This is just a selection of the million photos I took from locals... And to be honest I kind of knew a lot of them, you just dont point your camera at someone do you?! Well yes, sometimes you just do...























Familiar Faces...

When you get to a country, everything is new. You start discovering the country, the people, the traditions, and those that were to start with strangers, become with time familiar. They become friends, they become part of your life...
Here, some of the shots I took from this people that after 6 months became friends, co-workers, etc...
Unfortunately I did not have my camera at all times and I am missing very important people here!


Doud, Nadege, Guillaume


Yves

Mathieu

Maria

Nadege

Me

Olivier

Brice

Stein aka Sitgno

Ismail

Revocate

Doud

Olivier, me, Sylvain, Mignone

me, Bertrand, Nad

Olivia, Bertrand

Bibi, Nad, me

Helene, Eva

Ana

Guillaume, Brice


Emi, Nad

13 July 2010

Going Burundian...

The traditional "elegant" dress.


I wanted to learn how to carry children on my back, after some training, which included the mum of the girl standing behind me "just in case" the result...

First you fix the top

then the bottom


And you are ready to go!


And dont forget the bag!

Le Burundi avec Pe et Ju

We started nicely by the beach in Bujumbura.
No need to get a map, is a lake-beach.


JuPe
if the photos are all messed up, is because my computer does not like Pe& Ju cameras for some reason...



Buja, aka Bujumbura

On the road!

Gitega


Rutana

Random place on the way...


Faille des Allemands





...never alone...


Random village


Karera Falls



after the fall... non je ne maitrise un max!


always supervised, here actually it was for our security...





On the road...


The typical drink: Banana beer.

We all tried it

Well, not not all Ju only pretended for the pic



Our charming hosts

Going to a village always creates a sensation

surrounded...

Makamba,
the market, on a non-market day, so pretty empty, it usually is chaos



Ndagala, the little tiny fish






Nyanza


Les pieds en eventail!






Canne a sucre, from the scratch!

Une petite Amstel bien bien froide!


Queen of the world?



Close to Nyanza



It is quite impressive to see these beasts eat!



Saga resha,
the new hotel that is been built, pure luxury, a room there was planned to be 600$, yes you read it right!



Rumonge by night,
where we met the rest of the crowd that cycled there


Blue bay


Livingstone and Stanley stone,
look harder, they wrote (with Stanley) their names on it. The story says they met here. If i do go back a little bit more, Livingstone was missing and they send Stanley to look for him, imagine at the time Stanley going around in Africa asking if they had seen a white man, he found him here. An other story says that is in Rumonge where they separated and Stanley went back to the UK, and Liv. kept going and eventually died of Malaria somewhere close or in the Congo.


The view from the stone, I can imagine elephants and all sort of animals accompanying the white men. Then again I do have a lot of imagination!

A week of discoveries and pure fun