Aug 1, Friday. Moving slowly through the DRC.
We woke up at 7 am and found ourselves in Kolwesi where we were meant to have been the night before. We moved on soon afterwards and made very slow progress during the day. DRC rail track is barely maintained, and we were averaging under 15 kph. We knew that by travelling all night would be necessary to get us back on schedule by tomorrow.
After breakfast we went straight up to the observation car and spent the morning there until the lecture at 11 am which was questions and answers by Nicholas and Tim, quite interesting.
After lunch we went back to the observation lounge. At 5:30 pm we had one of our regular stops for track problems for 20 minutes or so , and there was a somewhat unhappy crowd built up around the outside area. They were demanding $10 and things from us. But Mr Voss thought there was no hostility at all in these people. We then got changed for dinner and had a cocktail in the nearby lounge for an hour or so before going into dinner (an African theme night, with Tim and Glenda). A good evening.
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