Sunday

Last Sunday we took a walk with connoisseurs friends of the area around Cap Santa Clara and the arboretum, some 15 km North of Libreville. We get to the starting point through a very mean dirt and mud road. Then we walk 2 hours through the forest, until we reach a really beautiful – though plastic waste is never far – and completely deserted beach. The water is clean and ridiculously warm.

A picnic, a nap and another swim later, we start walking back, and very quickly we realise we should have taken much more drinking water with us. When we are not under the shade of the trees, the sun hits very hard and the temperature feels much closer to 40 than 30. We start looking like Astérix on the cover of “L’Odyssée”. We make it back to the car with some difficulties, and swear to ourselves that next time, we will bring at least 3 liters of water each!