After a huge comedy breakfast we went to visit the village with Seresio (who turns out to be the chiefs cousin) The village is a real oasis, all the houses are made in the traditional style of bure. Each family has three bure, one to sleep in, one to cook in and one toilet. Seresio walked us around the village, took us into his cousins bure for a break, and introduced us to an adorable bunch of children, who loved having their photo taken and stroking clai...

We caught the bus to Ba (via the post office where we sent Sarah a parcel of shells by sea mail, god knows when it will arrive). We arrived in Ba, phoned Boulou to ask them to meet us in Navala, grabbed some food at the hot bread kitchen and some Pakora (some had raw chillies inside....eeek) and some indian sweets from a stall, then got on the bus. The ride was very long, dusty and bumpy and the radio on the bus was playing a recipe programme in Hindi. The ...