Just received word that I'm going to be spending most if not all of next summer in Central Africa! I'll be in Libreville, Gabon for about 2 and a half months...chillin'. Depending on timing and cash flow after I'm done in Libreville, I may head over to Kigali, Rwanda to visit a friend... by airplane of course. Trying to make my way through the Congo (especially eastern Congo) to get to Kigali by land may be a bad idea. Regardless of whether I go to Kigali, I'm sure Gabon will be a great adventure. No one seems to know anything about Gabon. I've been taking classes and attending lectures on Africa all semester, and I think Gabon has only come up once, and that was only in passing. So this will be totally uncharted territory, which means that it will just be teeming with opportunities for adventure. Beyond the fact that I've never been to Central Africa (only West Africa), one of the reasons that I chose Libreville was because the city is right on the Atlantic coast and equator runs right through the country. This will give me great chances to do some kayaking and jungle trekking while I'm there. The downside is that it's right on the equator and it'll be summer time, which means that it's literally going to be hot as hell!
So this is shaping up to be a pretty action-packed 8 months or so. In addition to Gabon next summer, I'm leaving for a month in India in about 3 weeks. Leaving just as soon as I'm finish with finals.
I think I may need to buy a new camera.
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