sumiko_blogging_from_sudan

...i add some pix of myself. with one of the more amazing creatures of this place: a baobab!


some may recognize this typical gesture: yes, it's me lecturing! as usual! ;) "look at the quality of work! will any of the contemporary infrastructure survive for this long?! the british ..." etc.etc. i'll spare you the rest :) and, no, i didn't jump.

no banking system close to you? invest in livestock!


queue for your turn...


... Zeinab's filling the needle!


first a shot from afar...


...then she reloaded...


...and stepped into the ring!




we saw some good wrestling.


let me see you tongue, honey!

supposedly a poem to/about this place... rather a lament, i'd say.


here's watching you, baby


protecting heritage


out of sea. soon back in the sea?


an apprehensive beauty here...


...two apprehensive beauties there.


morbidity has its charm. and people also go to Venice to see it wither, don't they?


every empire crumbles (see the canon)... in more or less dignified circumstances.

If you have a chance to do it: do it!

swimming among sharks, food aplenty, decent company if you're lucky (as i was) - and if the company's no good i'm sure the crew will compensate (thanks to the Baron Noir team! you are fantastic!)-, wrecks, and for folks like me who just dive because they simply find the world sub-watersurface mind-bogglingly amazing: plenty of mind-boggling, plenty of amazement!...


that almost invisible speck out there's our boat!


a bonito - in transit from the sea to the table

...no more pictures of toilets (as it now would be normal and thus boring) but a picture of a sunrise above the toilet :)