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2 April, Saturday Aswan

4/7/2011

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We meet the Brits again at the office of an official who makes all the arrangements for the barge and the ferries. We book our place on the barge, and do what we can with good faith that we will receive our Sudanese visas the next morning.

We bush camp next to the Nile the evening with the Brits on the property of a farmer/fisherman – Mohammed who is very friendly, helps Hugo and Andrej to make a fire, and offers us tea every 15 minutes. A warm wind blows in from the desert and it is definitely the warmest night we’ve had this far. This is only a side-note and not a complaint! We are definitely still enjoying the getting warmer weather. We have to watch Sammie closely because there are a pack of dogs running around and not friendly with outsiders!

Tomorrow is the big day!

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Handré +Marianne van Zyl
4/13/2011 08:20:10 pm

Willie, BAIE BAIE geluk met verjaardag! Mag jou nuwe lewensjaar, waar julle nou ookal is, 'n plainsailing onvergeetlike dag en jaar wees met net die beste, voorspoedigste en mooiste herinneringe! Ons dink aan julle in besonder en dra julle op aan ons Skepper om julle te behoed en te bewaar! Sien julle dalk in Julie in Namibië! Liefijul alm!

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    "There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep
    beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night." -
     Karen Blixen - Out of Africa, Kenya
    'Of course as I am reading this, I know that you DO get your visas and the container DOES get released, but oh the internal struggle we face even though we should trust (as Hugo does) that God has His hands on all things and is constantly taking care of us.'


    From a Friend:
    :) Crazy to think that we are ALL made of blood, bone and water yet we speak in so many tongues that getting along together becomes a massive task within itself.

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