sinking sand adventure.jpg

sinking sand adventure.jpg
Originally uploaded by joodmc.

One of our last visits was to a village called Lauro, where there is still a fair bit of unrest (we had to take a separate vehicle of SPLA soldiers for security). Enroute I decided to cross the river on foot.

But I stepped in the wrong place - and got sucked in - Lemmy, the driver was farm-boy to my Buttercup impression. Fortunately didn't see any ROUS. Gave everyone a pretty good laugh though.

When we arrived in Lauro we heard that there had been a fight between the Didinga and the Toposa the day before and people were really edgy. A couple days later, when we sent vehicles to pick up participants for a training workshop the Toposa blocked the vehicle and wouldn't let it pass into Didinga territory. The situation is still pretty tense.