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" A 7 quickly elevates to a 10 when you come around a turn and coming toward you is a bus filled with people and also has a ton of potatoes and two pigs and a billy goat on the roof. Then you have to back. "

That sounds like a little TOO much adventure, even for me! I was looking at some other pictures of the area. Looks like some pretty unforgiving territory, particualarly in the mountains.

The whole country travels on dirt roads...there are a million "combies" traveling all over the back country. Combies are small vans that in the US would carry 6 people, but down here 14 seems to be the magic number the drivers try for. How do I know this you ask? Whenever there's a wreck, 14 seems to be the average number of fatalities.

Around the mine, we are up-grading roads to the local communities. We also up-graded the potable water and irrigation systems and have built numerous schools. Here and in Africa, the local mines do more for the people than all the stupid handouts given by the UN or the numerous irrelevent NGOs. The NGO handouts in Africa provide welcome fodder for the black market.