Wednesday around 4:30pm we left our house. William took us in the school van to Shangri La Hotel so we could shop at the market and eat dinner at the Chinese restaurant there. We went shopping which means that I found a cute pair of earrings and a necklace to go with my awesome new shirt. We made a new friend named Amanda who actually sold me the necklace and made earrings to go with it.
After walking back and forth on the main road for a few minutes we decided to go to the Chinese restaurant that opened early for dinner instead of waiting until 7:00pm. The dinner was delicious I had sweet and sour pork and Jimmy had cashew chicken. We also had egg rolls which are called spring rolls here for a reason I don't know.
We had an opportunity to take a taxi from the hotel, but thought it would be too expensive so we declined. After that we walked down to the corner. There we found plenty of full taxis, but not an empty one. The traffic was awful. So we decided to walk. One of the places we walked through is in the picture. Only remember it's 7:00pm so it is very dark except for the headlights that are coming and going. We walked on the side of the road for about an hour until we reached home. We figured we were walking about 3 miles an hour...so basically we walked 3 miles home over rough terrain and out of control drivers. We only had two near death experiences. Traffic here is not exactly the drive in your own lane type of traffic.
We were so relieved when we got home! We were hot and sweaty and of course dusty and desieled from the cars passing us on the road.
This is a reason why Africa is interesting.
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I'm thinking the extra dollar would have been worth the taxi from the hotel. We did eat guilt free ice cream bars the next day though!
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