{"id":2269,"date":"2013-12-04T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2013-12-04T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T12:10:00","slug":"videos-while-traveling-the-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2013\/12\/videos-while-traveling-the-nile\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos while traveling the Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going up the White Nile from Malakal means navigating around large floating islands of reeds and hyacinth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/80460742\">Navigating the river<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also saw people floating downriver on rafts. \u00a0In the following video the raft is made of logs and sticks that they will sell as firewood, probably in Malakal. \u00a0So who wants to take your stuff to market this way\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/80460741\">raft of logs floating downriver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture is of a huge raft of some kind of cane. \u00a0This appears to be similar to the faux cane or false cane, elephant grass cane, that we see in Congo. \u00a0Again, they are surely taking it to market. \u00a0We saw people building a small fire to prepare food on the top of their raft of cane. \u00a0I wonder how far they are traveling and how long it takes?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2271\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/12\/floating-cane-downriver-to-market-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2271\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2271\" alt=\"floating cane downriver to market crop\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/12\/floating-cane-downriver-to-market-crop-300x181.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/12\/floating-cane-downriver-to-market-crop-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/12\/floating-cane-downriver-to-market-crop-1024x618.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">raft made of cane<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=2269&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going up the White Nile from Malakal means navigating around large floating islands of reeds and hyacinth. 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