So after yet another week has passed I will sometimes do so by the 5 days to report on Dominica.
Wednesday morning are we (two other CSler from Gwada and a friend of one of the two) set off by boat in PTP and even at the arrival of what we saw is the island from the more natural and less roads than Gwada. The pier was the middle of a national park and you had to cart in a taxi to leave Portsmouth. There we got a rental car without 4x4 is nothing on the island, and are driven towards Roseau. Initially a bit confusing at the wrong go to page, as I've driven most of the time I was back at the confusing ;-)
The first stop we made at the Ross University. An American University which is here in Dominica, according to study one of the largest Internet broadcasters to the world around medicine, whether they are at least unstützen locals so they can enjoy a good education, I can not figure out. I only saw only Americans.
have further we went, we moved into the coast up to more than half of Roseau in a small village hotel. The rest of the day, we have used the Trafalgar Falls to visit. There we have again the BMS both I have met here again taken they were at the same time on the island.
Two beautiful waterfalls, the upper could swim. After the sunset and a bissel rum we have gone to bed relatively early because it is much walking and it is already dark at 17.30. The next morning we
have changed the property to which a little to get cheaper. After that we were going to the Victoria Falls. Sorry we missed the road (road signs: None and not help the people in ignorance simply because they continue to point in the direction in which one is on the way ...) Well, then we stop our plan to visit for the afternoon Sufrière Bay on the morning shift and are only later to the other side to to search for the cases. A guide did not take us because it was late and started to rain but we are eventually reversed, but was rather difficult to find (many river traverses and deformed way on the other side). Since the whole area is owned by a Rasta community, we would end up with a little chat with the people, even interesting.
evening then has the extra bar next door opened for us and we have a little bit with the bartender, who is also Selecta and a little sound has entertained. He has invited us for BBQ takes place every Friday in the village.
The next morning we used to go as we had planned a hike to the Boiling Lake 5S HOURS. The lake is it is because he cooks! Is located in the old volcanic crater but the reason for the lake is not known. After the tsunami, the water was simply gone and no one has found a reason why he cooks. Now he is back and cooking. When we were there it was particularly hot, and there are probably days where you could not even swim because he cooks. Interesting was the cross of the crater, the volcano is active here as anyone else and therefore could be located next to the exit holes made by the steam. The last major explosion he probably own half-blown up and the whole drum has a huge diameter. If he breaks out again probably 3 / 4 of the population would be wiped out. But since the volcanoes connected underground and Montserrat are constantly breaking out the theory that the pressure from the other says is taken.
evening we went to the BBQ and have again noticed that the people are very different in Gwada. We've got something on the grill and wanted to sit down somewhere but the locals have called the same to him and meant we eat there. Then we have a good time. A fisherman who invited us for the next day to have a meal (we could but unfortunately not because we had to go already) and another has meant the next time I come I will not go into the hotel but can stay with him. Such an open way, the people just to go and with a speech and question where you come from and who you are you will not find anywhere to Gwada. While on the market you can always have a good time and in the laboratory are all super nice, but even at the university (especially in the courses that I program), I noticed sometimes that the other students is not much interest there is, here is the difference between black and white to feel clearer.
have the next day we morning Roseau looked, it was just a cruiser in the city and that's why many tourists and I will really never go on a cruise, you come in with 4,000 other rich white on a poor black island, going by minibus taken to a random-sight which is easily accessible, can spot the Nature did not enjoy because you have to share everything with a horde of tourists and will shortly also reduced without actually seeing anything right off the island. For that you need but so much money to lie down for a week, you can loosely be out for a month, you can look at the islands and really get to know locals because you are alone or in pairs on the go. We drove to Roseau where we spent our last night in the Emerald Pool zuück north to Portsmouth. The pictures of Emerald Pool, you can see the difference between cruise tourism and
Backpacking very clear.
evening we still gone out and are at a birthday party landed in a bar. Actually, we wanted what was typical Domin Ecumenical but the majority of people immigrants from the Dominican Republic and was held drum reggae and dancehall in particular Bachata and Raggaton.
The last day we went again to the beautiful beach of the island and then we went back home.
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