now. The first is a shot of our new neighborhood, called Mvan. We're
moving in January, when Ann K and Ray and their kids head to the US for
a seven-month furlough. Mvan is a newer neighborhood a good half-hour
to hour (traffic-depending) from Djongolo, the neighborhood where we
currently live and work. There's a lot of greenery left in Mvan, and a
lot of new construction.
The second picture is something you see a lot of here. There is often
more than one person on a motorcycle, and motorcycle taxis are common,
though not so common as the ubiquitous cabs. Sometimes you even see
three people riding on one of the little bikes. I have wanted to get a
picture of that for awhile, but they go by quickly; I'll keep my eyes
open, though. Alas, only one out of every hundred or so riders has a
helmet on. There must be a lot of fatalities in motorcycle accidents here.
The beautiful little 50cc Suzuki in the third picture belongs to a
friend of Ray and Ann K's who we met recently. He agrees they are
dangerous to ride in Yaounde, as does everyone, because of how crazy the
traffic is here. I want one anyway, but will restrain myself. Most of
the motorcycles here, unlike this one, are Chinese, and are reputedly
unreliable but very cheap. A foreigner working here for SIL bought a
Chinese bike to ride to South Africa but it broke down irreparably with
no warning while he was in Angola. A new Chinese motorcycle costs about
six hundred dollars.
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