Tour de Tuli a little on the expensive side now?

[Paulst12]

TOUR DE TULI 2012 REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

 

Tour Dates: Thursday 02nd August 2012 to Tuesday 07th August 2012

Minimum Sponsorship Donation: R18 000.00 per cyclists (this includes the mandatory emergency evacuation insurance)

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i know a lot goes to the community, but this is a little OTT considering the Sani is R4800 and that also goes to supporting the local community?

[I FLY]

I was serious put off doing this ride by the tv coverage of the 2011 tour.

 

It is meant to be a fund raising initiative for Children in the Wild. However most of the footage was of overweight riders standing/sitting/lying around stuffing their faces with endless piles of food and drink.Often with very skinny children standing nearby and watching in envy.

[tunariaan]

Welkom in Afrika, die feit dat dit effens aan die wilde kant is maak dit nou maar net xtra duur

[kamikaze]

screw the "community"!

if they are too pathetic to get off their asses and change their plight in life, let them suffer.

 

i lived in botswana for a whole year, and my experience is that these are the laziest people on earth. their government gives them everything for free, from land to cattle to education to healthcare. they have no incentive to work.

the one thing they do excel at though is sitting on a cinder-block under a tree, drinking sorghum-beer ALL day long.

 

i was based up in Maun, where the local economy is sustained by tourism. the locals there resent the foreigners for "making them work", the vast majority of people there do their work grudgingly with a sour expression on their faces, instead of doing it with a smile and being grateful for having work!

 

i know one should be wary of generalising, but i guarantee that this is one place where you CAN generalise when it comes to work-ethic amongst the local inhabitants.