this is as dangerous as it looks. during my travels i’ve seen kids jump and bikers latch onto these trucks so they can catch a free ride up the mountains. breathing back there must be difficult. this was taken on our way back from gitega. people were fascinated by the muzungu traveling via taxi instead of the usual nice cars provided by all the NGOs here.
during one stop i decided to entertain the kids staring at me by taking their pictures and showing it to them. you can imagine the crowd that gathered after i showed them the first image. here is my last and favorite picture i took of this group of onlookers before we continued on…
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the kids found this one just as entertaining as i did. i was laughing as i took this, it was hilarious…