19 June 2007, by Sarah Harting in Bujumbura, Burundi, photo: cybro.info-The airport is just outside Bujumbura. If you enter the airport there’s a big hall, with right in front a panel showing arrivals and departures, with only arrivals actually marked. On the left is a door for arrivals, on the right a door for departures.

Stairs going up lead to a restaurant and a small shop for tourists. It might have been because we were late, but there were very few people leaving. Mama’s sister got herself a card that shows ‘visitor’ so that she could join mama up to restricted areas. We waited and waited; saw some other people leaving and finally we could go home.

We had come with two cars and were divided into two groups, but we were 6 heading home, and 2 heading somewhere else. While driving to the city two girls went with the second car but when we entered the city they boarded our car. In the afternoon an old friend came to visit me and pick up some stuff I had brought from Holland. He took me downtown where we met some other friends and had fun.