Comments on: Organized Chaos on the Streets of Kinshasa

By: Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 01:29:21 +0000

So fascinating! I’m so glad you are posting all this! 🙂

When I was there, I wanted to ride in the back of the security truck taking video from there with the security officers and police. At first they weren’t too keen on it but I kept asking over several days and finally toward the end of our trip they let me do it. Wow! That was an experience. We had so many folks yelling at us and any time we slowed down they jumped out of the truck and ran along side us. I’m thinking we’d have been rushed if it wasn’t for the police with us and their machine guns.

By: Joane

Joane — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:17:27 +0000

Reminds me very much of the bigger cities of Mexico! The pollution, the trash, the vendors, the poverty, the crazy driving, the vendors on the streets. I was always a fascinated with the vendors offering their various items for sale – some handmade and beautiful. They were such a mix of different people. There were small children who were also orphans, old people, people with missing limbs or other body parts or just crippled, and then there were the Tarahumara Natives women also known as Raramuri meaning “the runners” that would sit with their children all day selling what they could.

The vans aren’t too much different either except they didn’t have callers hanging out. However, you could hear other callers on loud speakers mounted to their vehicles selling fresh tortillas, donuts etc.

Hope to hear (see, smell, taste, feel) more of your trip! Haha!

By: Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:08:47 +0000

One word… “Wow!!!”

Such interesting posts!!