(and how fortunate that I uploaded all my pictures to my computer when I did, cos two days later my camera was stolen.. !)
So here's the lovely Port-au-Prince from above, misty morning but you can get a feel of its gorgeous surroundings, the mountains, the sea...
Up close, a different kind of beauty, not so much coming from the crumbled concrete buildings, beeping horns and roads that are worse to drive on than off-road, but rather from the positive resilience and warmth of the people’s smiles.
Some examples of the destruction wrecked by the earthquake now 5 months back..
not even the presidential palace was spared...
Over 1 million people are currently living in more or less organized tent/shack camps or squatter settlements that can vary from thousands of families on public or private lands to 50 or so living on a public square, like this one:
(how many people lived in similar or worse conditions in slums etc even before the earthquake is another discussion..)
that was one of the prettier ones.
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