I decided to stay another day and investigate, there was nothing much to do in town otherwise. Joseph met me at 9am the next day and we rode back out to have another look. I Itold him in no uncertain terms I would never send any money to buy something without being there and I would need a lawyer to ok it. Not some local guy either, someone in the capital. It was a backwards way of doing things but I wanted to go out, check it out again, see how the roads were in the vacinity, have a ponder but instead we spoke to dozens of people on the way and by the time we got as close to the penisullar as it was possible to get we had half a locals trooping behind us all chatting away. Asking Joseph for a translation was useless, I would ask what a 1 minute monologue from one of the alleged owner was and get a 2 second translation. We had a walk around the pensular, and it became clear there were actually 7 owners not 4, Just the kind of hassle I would have no interest in facing, all I would wanr to do would be to negotiate one price and let the owners split it however they see fit. WIth this in mind the couple of guys who owned part of it were very interested in showing me which potato and yam plantations were theres. I retained my healthy skeptism, especially when Joseph told me the lack of road would be taken care of by the local government and local people who would seemingly and spontaneously come together in some charitable act of improving the road already there and making a route for me. I doubt it…. the ammount of land needed to get a road there was probably 5 time the area of the penisular, hardly a good idea for the locals. I couldn’t even get an explanation as to where the quickest place to get from town via a boat would be ie drive from town to the first place on the lake and then travel on te water to the penisular. No one was going to want to hike through a load of fields in a muddy track for 20 minutes everytime they wanted to go anywhere, not even me. I was thinking more along the lines of buying and then leaving it for several years anyway, if at all, but the talk of free roads was setting off my bullshit alert. Even if it wasn’t the ideal place for a hostel it would make a great retirement place…



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