Many paths lead from Nigeria, but to come back here one needs a "Re-entry Visas. And to that end we had to accomplish a long journey.
But it started with the idea for the spent on work days of Christmas, in which the Hearts of Gold was full of donors, and after some discussions with "Mummy, Mummy" us to take a vacation and far away from the volunteers and a total for the few tourists Nigeria's major destinations Kano, Calabar and Yankari National Park in the exact opposite corner of Nigeria across the country to go to Maiduguri. This idea then arose the fantastic episode idea of using the proximity to Chad, to get there to make a small detour. "We" are Vitali (a volunteer who moved into the Hearts of Gold , but just before the trip again joined the project) and myself. However, we
had some hardships for this goal, discussions and trips to take us. At first we said ICYE (the Nigerian National Committee of my sending organization) that travel to foreign countries not only on the visa is possible. Of this we were not impressed us and we were looking for a Chad message about which we had completely different information found in my two guides and the Internet. At the former site, but no message and the residents had said they had moved, some people suggested to Abuja, others called us several other addresses in Lagos. Thus, we accomplished a veritable odyssey through Victoria Iceland (the embassy district of Lagos) and the Cameroon Embassy, we were finally told the correct position. The Chadian embassy consisted of a living room with a fairly loose acting ambassador in it, the told us the conditions for the very cheap visa and was very pleased with our visit. Then we went to the Immigration Office, where we look more closely informed about the re-entry visas. This should cost a lot of money, as if the almost 500 €, which we previously had to pay even for the normal visa, not enough. Then we talked again with the ICYE us and the matter was once eaten, we got our passports from ICYE and picked us up and re-entry visa. On our Seminar half but then we got a week before the scheduled start of the trip a little too late from Germany reported that Chad is not from Weltwärts volunteers must be visited, just like a bunch of other West African countries. So we were at the low point, but then quickly decided to contest planned our trip as then but to travel instead from Chad through Cameroon in order not to waste our Re-Entry. In retrospect, we were pretty happy with this decision.
Next Sunday, 21 February, it went off with a Busunternehemen. We drove about 12 hours to Abuja in the center of Nigeria, where we spent the night, the one for armed robbery rather should not spend in the car on the streets. The following day the journey continued by Jos and Bauchi. We have during the trip by driving really, many of the numerous growing areas of rain forest on grass and rocky landscapes around Abuja and brown prairie on the cool Jos Plateau, to the savannah Bauchis that was up to Maiduguri always barren and dry. On our trip to Lake Chad, we went even to the Nigerian branch of the Sahel. In Bauchi in any case we were transported by the bus company in a bush taxi. The ride in the taxi was the warm, dry desert air, the Muslim music from the CD player, riding an endless straight road through the nothing in the savannah, on the contrary we were in bright fabrics coated man in the middle between two villages that were already half an hour away by car, quite an experience.
0 comments:
Post a Comment