Africa Travel Blogs

This is Tuesday afternoon. I am currently lounging on the outdoor terrace of my hotel—the Holiday Inn Maputo. It is one of the few better hotels that sit right on the beach. Writing this journal is difficult, because I am constantly being distracted by the beautiful beach sprawled out before…

We got up at a quarter past six to pack our bags and check out. Today we were going to go rafting on the Zambezi river, which started at the Waterfront lodge. This was very convenient for us, as we would be staying the night there as well, so this meant we could check out of Fawlty Towers and take …

Well, before I begin detailing the events of this BIG day, I want to express some very emotional thoughts and my true inspiration that drove me to not give up…to keep pushing myself to the summit. This year I lost my dear mother. In 2007 she suffered a series of seizures and was diagnosed with br…

Traveling to South Africa On the 10th of october was my bigg day... I had to get up at 4AM in the moring.... to take the train to get in time before 8AM. I took me 2 hours and 40 minutes to get to the airport by train... My sweet mother went with me.... She took great care of me with drinks and fo…

Zambia is a landlocked nation in southern Africa bordered by several countries. Located just below the equator, most of Zambia is on a high plateau, which gives the country a moderate subtropical climate. In Lusaka, the average temperature in the winter is 61F and 70F in the summer. In 1855 famed B…

The first European settlers called them 'Dragon Mountains'; the Zulus call them 'Barrier of Spears' - whatever you know them as, the Drakensberg mountain range is one of the most spectacular natural features of Africa. The Drakensberg is situated in the Eastern parts of South Africa running approx…

This morning I got that feeling that the ugly threatening realities of daily life is about to sneak up on me. It is the very last day of my holiday and I only got ½ day before I need to go to the airport and fly home. Only having half a day sets certain limits to what you can do - but then aga…

A day off to myself. "Phew!" At last.  I chat to Sarah (Australia) and Pierre-Marc (Canada) some cool people staying at King Tut's too.  Sarah's still suffering from what I'll refer to in my time in Egypt as Cairo Shock.  Only a matter of an hour into the city and she'd had her bags …

Although the volunteer work in and around Ruhengeri was my first priority, I still had time to be a tourist.  And part of being a tourist, of course, is buying the postcards to send out to friends and family.  Ruhengeri, however, is not geared towards the tourist…and it proved to be “…

  As the eastern sky began to lighten, our Swiss Air DC-10 out of Zurich descended from billowing gray clouds to reveal a first glimpse of Tanzania. Green terrain and red clay earth bordered blue-green waters of the Indian Ocean half way down the African continent. Walking fifty yards from t…

Home is where the heart is! I was born and raised in this very beautifully green land locked country called Uganda, have you heard of it? Well, not to worry, most people don't know which part of Africa Uganda is let alone what the main airport is, I will tell you all come with me. Uganda is one of…

7:30 am in Serena Lago Manyara. I am sitting on a hammock in the pool overseeing Lake Manyara. As I am writing, tons birds are all around and every once in a while I have a visit of one of those African insects… sometimes I jump as I am thinking Anofoles (malaria’s mosquito) wants to welco…

After four days of hard work and tasty, yet tiring business dinners, it was time for something fun. Today was the last day my Dutch colleague Peter would be in Cairo, so we decided for tonight we should definitely do something special. Especially since we hadn’t really been outside of our Heliopo…

After several months of procrastination, I am finally uploading some video I took while visiting the Silverback gorillas in the volcano mountains of Rwanda and the Congo. The videos begin at the entrance where we met our guide (first video is just an introduction of our small group).…

It was great to be back in Namibia for 2 weeks. Most of my previous visits here had been during the dry winter season (May-October). Now summer is the wet season, when storms generally occur in the afternoons. On this trip, after some good rain, I got the chance to see a very different Namibia. I d…