National Geographic Travelのインスタグラム(natgeotravel) - 12月17日 06時05分

Photo by @robert_ormerod | Children swim in the Maroni River as a small boat comes in near Apatou, French Guiana. Earlier in the day I had used a combination of broken French, Spanish, English, and mostly hand signals to organize a boat ride up the Maroni, which forms the border between French Guiana and Suriname on the northeast coast of South America. As I stepped onto the rickety boat with two cameras, I instantly regretted it. Unfortunately my French barely covered "hello" and "goodbye" and didn't extend to "Can we please turn back, as I have little confidence in your boat?" We proceeded up the river with the boat riding fearfully low through thick rapids and arrived at a small, inhabited island. I had apparently failed to communicate my intended destination, another village farther up the river, accurately. We got out, walked around, saw very little, and got in the boat to repeat the journey back the way we had come. What's the lesson here? When arranging potentially perilous transportation, miming is a really bad method of communication.

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