The dream of wild life safari from the window of a luxurious train passing through African bushes and red earth savannas came true! In Kapiri Mposhi we boarded the first class compartments, men and women separately. Soon it turned out that our wagon is full of other ‘mzungu’ (white men), backpackers from different parts of the world who just like us are traversing the black continent. My travel companions were mainly Scandinavian, a group of 3 Danish journalists, one Finnish web-designer and a Dutch anthropologist – I enjoyed a splendid company in our ‘girls’ compartment during the next 2 days.
Maciek shared the journey with not less interesting travelers: a Korean journalist interviewing mzungus for his new book ‘On the road I have met a man’, a Finnish traveler who was giving hundreds of soccer balls to poor kids, some young South African architects who decided to explore their own continent… etc. All people on the average 10 years younger then us : )
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