lake Tanganyika makes a border between Congo and Tanzania. Here we are on the MV Liemba between Kigoma and Kasanga, near Zambia.
most of the time, the ferry stops far from the shoreline. People then jump on the little fisherman boats and come to board the boat, or pick friends or relatives or supplies.
boarding through the ferry flanks.
the further we went south, the more the boat got uploaded, overloaded. The various decks were hard to cross….event the 1st class deck.
the decks are packed and moving around gets funny and interesting...
kids didn’t mind so much that unusual ever changing playground
one glorious morning on Mahale mountains.
so one engine got a problem and that piece of luck allowed us to disembark in the morning instead of in the middle of the night. Further on the horizon is the Congolese coast. Pirates left us alone. Not to the Somali extent but Congolese pirates used to roam the lake at night looking for fishermen and other small boats to loot. The Tanzanian navy has a gunboat on this lake and at some point did a good job at cleaning up the situation. That was in 2002 and unfortunately things have deteriorated again for the poor fishermen. Congolese pirates are the usual kind of coward people who hide behind borders aftr an attack on helpless fishermen...
we had biking for an hour or so before the ferry resumed her trip.
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