i guess its well covered in the above, i traveled from Dubai to Capetown (via Yemen) and saw it as a personal challenge not to pay and i dident pay anyone in that trip ! with lots of banter, smiles and wasting their time i managed to evade the numerous attempts to extract money from me and the biggest challenge was always near the borders !
i agree with all above that giving money is only encouraging them although i think that if the pressure was really on i most probably would have capitulated and paid something !
best laugh i had was when in Zambia the uniformed requests for condoms was equal to those for money !!
difficult to explain to my partner next time Im off to Africa why i need a sackfull of condoms !!!!
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