5 1/2 months in Africa - and now?

Home of Good Hope, Katutura, Namibia

Time was running, and my time with Monica and the kids was gone. And with it also the trip.

5 and half months I was on the road. Many people helped to make my trip work out well. Many old friends from 2009 I met again, for sure, I won new friends, I have seen many great landscapes and I have experienced exciting moments with the wild animals.

Africa and his people - this is a love hard to explain to someone, who has never been there. I will always remember the eyes of Abdou Rabou, my old friend from Wawa, Sudan. When he started to realize, that I am the same Andy, who stayed in his house already 2003...

Abdou Rabou, Wawa, Sudan

Linda and Tom, Awassa, Ethiopia

Bisrat from Ethiopia, who has helped me in a great way. Linda and Tom, who showed me, that Ethiopians and Eritreans must not necessarily have a problem with each other.

Yusuf, Mombasa, Kenya

My Kenyan friends - my good old friend Yusuf, who helped me out more than just once. Nafisa, his sister, who is like my own sister, his brother Hassan and Munira. Rose and Albert from Tanzania, who opened door and heart to me. Benson, who can hopefully realize his campsite dreams.

Munira & Mohamed, Eldoret, Kenya

Nafisa & Khadija, Mombasa, Kenya

Rose & Benson, Mombasa, Kenya

The friends in Uganda - the scouts, Rose, Father Caesar and Rhona, "my" street children from Kampala.

Father Caesar, Kampala. Uganda

David and the scouts, Kampala, Uganda

Rose, Kyengera, close to Kampala, Uganda

Rhona, Kampala, Uganda

And of course Monica from Namibia. And the children there.
Father Caesar said: when you come the first time, you come as a guest. The second time you come as a friend. In Namibia, this was continued by Bongie - when you come a third time, you come as part of the family!

Monica, Home of Good Hope, Namibia

Well, my friends in Africa - I will come again, this is for sure. And for quite a few of them, I already feel like part of the family! 

Now, I have to exercise in Germany what I learned in Africa. To adapt to new things again and again. There are also new things in Germany - at least for me after nearly 6 months on the road...

For sure, there is also some work, which needs to be done, for example to work on the new photos (a total of 12.722), this time also some videos. New presentations need to be done. And I have to look for a job.
But well, not everything at the same time. Let’s do it the African way....

Map of Africa, Wilderness, South Africa

Oh - with this trip, I fulfilled a dream. Dreams have one in common - when one is fulfilled, many new ones pop out! I already have new dreams like sand in the African desert, like stars in the sky of Africa!