Do you see the hut in the picture? That’s our new sleeping place for this week :D. Finally a real hut where we need to sleep in! What an adventure. This week we are in the Democratic republic of Congo. It is very beautiful over here, if we are quiet we don’t hear anything. It’s not the same like in Belgium! In Belgium there is always noise even if you are very quiet!
The weather is fantastic!! Like you can see, we expect 30 degrees every day! What do we need to have more?
We already have neighboursJ, in the evening when we are sitting around the campfire, the monkeys visit us and they sit and lay together with us around the campfire. They aren’t dangerous, actually they are very sweet!
The capital of this country is Kinshasa and like the name of the country says has it a republic as form of government.
Congo is a country that isn’t very developed, it is already better then it was a couple years ago. The people who live here are very kind. They live for their country! You can see that little boys of twelve or thirteen year already go to the army, not only because they have to but also because they want to protect their country, they feel themselves a bit mandatory do to this. They can chose between 3 departments: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Army/ National Navy and Congolese Air Force.
It is very nice to walk in the streets because you see everywhere soldiers, you feel yourself very save, like nothing can happen to you. The soldiers are very friendly, it’s not like Europe where we can’t watch at them or where we can’t speak with them. If you have a question they really want to help you and they do everything to help you, even if they have to go to the other side of the world.
the official language that they speak here is French, off course there are some other languages but actually it are dialects but French is the language that everybody speaks and understands in Congo.
This is the view that we see at the moment, lovely isn’t it?
We are going to enjoy of the sun because tomorrow we start to discover Congo and then we can’t rest anymore.
In two weeks we are back home and then we finally al see you!
Byee xx Céline
