Africa: Not losing all your kit within 5 minutes.
I am off in a couple of weeks to Cape Town, and in between Lincoln and there, I heard there's a few borders.
How do you manage to get passed around all the various huts and stamp collecters without getting everything on your bike pinched within 30 secs of leaving it? I only have fabric panniers, but they're probably a bit much to lug around with me everytime I need to go stamping and signing.
My limited experience of borders tells me that all the most dubious characters in a country gather there, and leaving a bike unattended is asking to lose everything that's not bolted down.
In the Middle East, there seems to be a sort of code of honour, where you can ask one of the more senior looking people hanging around to look after your belongings, and he will take it as a matter of pride to ensure nothing goes missing. Can you do this kind of thing dans Afrique?
Apologies if this is a silly question. May be some last minute jitters making me act like a knob!
Cheers,
Birdy.
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