Saturday 29 Jan : We made the trip to the lake – on a very dusty road. See the photographs of some spectacular scenery. The tiny villages we saw enjoyed the most perfect setting, overlooking the vast serene lake. There was a mixture in building materials from classic mud huts with thatched roofs, to small brick bungalows. Soccer was everywhere with football pitches dominating every village green! I expect they are all also vulnerable to flooding during the rainy season. The children here do not have any toys nor do they have any bears like me so they really liked to meet me.
We passed a water station that was very busy where the young women and children were filling large yellow containers using the hand pump (perhaps WaterAid or Oxfam had installed this?) and the women were carrying the containers back to their villages on their heads. We have seen many women carrying many (challenging) items such as whole bales of timber and also very large baskets laden with fruit (bananas and mangos) carefully balanced on their heads.
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