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Thank you very much for the replys, just what I was after.

Now, have you ever had this person along and they start going through your stuff, fridge etc.
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... have you ever had this person along and they start going through your stuff, fridge etc.
Now that would be rude. Most people we met in Africa are much to polite to behave like that. Don't confuse curiosity with brutality.

Have you ever opened your fellow 'unknown' travellers's suitcase on a bus, train, plane or station ?

But it's always a good practise not having everything laying around in plain sight, anyway. Everytime! with or without a guest, whether your in a town or not, whether you are traveling on a road with roadblocks/checkpoints or a lonely piste.
It's difficult to say no to a 'cadeaux' asking person when you are sitting in a showroom full of goodies and it becomes very irritating to have to hide, close, store and lock everything away every photo-moment, coffee-moment, shopping-moment, lunch-break, etc. or even when stucked/bogged or broken down, you'll get sloppy and will create opportunities (for people to swiftly re-arrange some of your welth).
Think safety (flying objects! and the occasionly opportunity 'thieves'), be aware, relax and most of all enjoy!

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I have always given people lifts - stranded tourists/locals whatever. Every trip I end up carrying someone! In my troopy I kept some of the seats for passengers, as the car had 11 I figured I could keep a few! But I also have to confess to making a guide (well, bloody gangster con-man really) ride on the roofrack for a short time as I was at my wit's end. Friend of mine did a similar thing 'cause the guy's feet smelt that bad. Here in the West African Bush I always enjoyed having a pick-up as you could help people out but not have to put up with bags of frozen fish - that happened once in an almost brand new 105 cruiser... stopped and helped out a couple of guys doing a 20km walk home from market - next day realised their bag of rapidly defrosting fish had leaked under the rear load mat. Bloody car stank for weeks. So yes I would always recommend some sort of seat, but when you look at a local taxi or whatever you realise that even your roofrack could be classed as quite luxurious in certain circumstances :-) And check what they are carrying!!!
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Gil, you made my day
Mine too!

Thanks again, good advice and opinions all round
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Hi Pete,

I would go with what Bart said, some sort of make shift arrangement, just possible if you want it but far from obvious if you don't. In that way its to your descretion whether you want to take people and compulsory guides suddenly do not seem to be so compulsory anymore when there's no place. We took many locals, mostly on the roofrack. Drive slowly and they will be fine with it. We took a bunch of Himba on the roof in Namibia. As you may know they stain terribly, the whole roofrack was orange with oker and butter. Glad they weren't inside the car

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Cheers Noel, more good info
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