Nystrom Adventures
John & Josi
September 2013 – March 2014
Expedition Trip Details
Extract from the diary: "When Henry Morton Stanley�s epic expedition left Bagamoyo in Tanzania in March 1871, he was not travelling light. His quarry was David Livingstone � explorer extraordinaire but missing and not heard from for years, somewhere deep in the Heart of Darkness. Charged with such a mission, Stanley was prepared for anything.
His party number 192 people in total, including over 100 porters, 22 soldiers, a cook, a tailor, an interpreter, 27 donkeys, 2 horses and a dog. His baggage allowance was generous too � 8.5tons of supplies and equipment were borne along by this menagerie of animals and porters. Accounting for much of this weight was Stanley�s equivalent of hard currency � a staggering 8,000 yards of fine cloth, with which he hoped to barter and trade his way through the interior. No traveller�s cheques or ATMs here. Supplementing his 52 bales of cloth were several porter loads of decorative beads and general haberdashery.
In this respect, life for us is much more straight forward. Hard currency, VISA and Mastercard take up far less room and seem equally effective."
His party number 192 people in total, including over 100 porters, 22 soldiers, a cook, a tailor, an interpreter, 27 donkeys, 2 horses and a dog. His baggage allowance was generous too � 8.5tons of supplies and equipment were borne along by this menagerie of animals and porters. Accounting for much of this weight was Stanley�s equivalent of hard currency � a staggering 8,000 yards of fine cloth, with which he hoped to barter and trade his way through the interior. No traveller�s cheques or ATMs here. Supplementing his 52 bales of cloth were several porter loads of decorative beads and general haberdashery.
In this respect, life for us is much more straight forward. Hard currency, VISA and Mastercard take up far less room and seem equally effective."