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Soccer ball to the most southern remote village we have ever been to!



Pictures don't do this justice... Our river banks often go straight up and down...

Talking to our language assistant. Most of them are school teachers but the government pays very little to teachers so they come to the UN and make 4-5x their taecher wage

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Soccer ball to the most southern remote village we have ever been to!






Pictures don't do this justice... Our river banks often go straight up and down

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A river that actually has a bridge!!! BUT also has a broken down bus/truck in the middle of it!!



Here is the truck/bus we helped reload after they helped us get out of the deep sand/river


One very LARGE sand trap!



Burried deep! We used a wich from my car to help pull as the driver used 4x4 and the locals pushed

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The feast - Chicken

Well lit tree

Long Range patrol - Pee break

Stuck in the river (no water of course) These locals were busy unlaoding one of the big trucks which was also stuck. They stopped to help us. Total 2 vehicles stuck for at least 1 hour. When we finally got out of this situation (with the villagers help) most of the PAK army I was with (who didn't help much) and my team members went to get in their cars and drive away... I stopped all of them and made these locals helped us and without that help we would still be stuck. So, for the next 20 minutes we (the entire team) assisted the locals to reload their trucks with over 60 cases of pop destined for the next village. The locals were thankful as was I. PS in the river there was NO shade and we were pushing and pulling and it was 40+ degrees!!!.

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The tree before the lights burnt out


One well fed cat that night


Yatha's



Some dancing - Ghana and Rwanda

Santa!

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The tree before the lights burnt out




One well fed cat that night




Yatha's




Some dancing - Ghana and Rwanda

Santa!

Party

Pre-party!

Enjoying the first night at the Canada/German club!! LOL oh and our honourary Fijian. This fiji police officer calls me "YATHA" which in Fiji means Namesake - his name is Michael as well. The thing we are sitting on is a very common Sudan bed/couch. This one (as all are) is hand made.

First drink in the newly lit bar

Michael (Yatha) me and Matt from Germany

Cheers from SUDAN!!

Setting up the Christmas lights



Enough said! EH!



Kai hanging the German flags...... The Canadian ones were bigger!!



The lights at night... we do have a problem now :( the lights were from Canada (110 v) in Sudan the power is 230 v - all the lights are burning out or melting.... they will be all gone soon :(



Christmas dinner party... UNPOL and UNMO

My room on Christmas morning! YAHH!!!!

Some of the team... Auz, Rwanda, Peru, China, Germany, Napal, Equador, Fiji and Philipines

X-Mas Prep

Christmas eve dinner & Party. We also welcomed 3 new members and said farwell to one that was leaving



Yeh yeh,....

Kai from Germany

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Our Christmas tree - The before shot!



Now the tree has been painted RED and we start to decorate.

A new road, fairly smooth (by Sudan standards) notice the rocks down the centre and on the right and left... these are the road lines... no paint here... LOL

This is a typical river that we will drive down, you must move slowly over the sharp rocks so that they do not puncture your tires..

Everyone helping with the decorations