Africa Travel Blogs - Page 12

Boy, did we hit the jackpot here. We had decided on a day trip from Cairo to Luxor to visit the Valley of the Kings, Karnak Temple and other sites in Luxor. We took the first flight out of Cairo in the morning, like 06:00, arriving in Luxor bright and early. We went to the informatio…

Egypt one of the most interesting places someone can visit i guess,with all this historical places and different combination of African-Arabic-Asian style.

In January this year (2007) I was finally able to pack my bags and head for Africa. I spend 6 wonderful weeks down there together with an american friend. South Africa have so much: great people, beautiful nature, wildlife, interesting history, interesting culture.. and the list goes on.

We arrived in High Atlas mountains of North Africa, in a 4 wheel drive vehicle, taking us up through the Toubkal Massif region in Imlil.  A  berber man waiting for us with his mule to carry our luggage to the Douar Samra, our riad ( about 50m by walking right going up …

Start off from 10 weeks in Namibia for a 10-week Expedition. Then, travel around the Southern Africa and Eastern Africa.

Having booked dates for this next flight some 12 months ago we were unsurprised to find that our flight departed some 30 minutes later than our ticket showed.  Despite the added security measures at London's Heathrow Airport we check in easily as we have no hand luggage but Andrew is…

I was working on a merchant ship that was hauling food to Africa for the United Nations and our ship spent 12 days in Mombasa in the fall of 2008. The captain of our ship arranged a photo safari  to Tsavo with a long time associate of the shipping company in Mombasa, Wilmina Mpapale with Milma…

The first thing I was thinking off when we drove to our hotel was; Wow, I'm really in The Gambia right now! I was excited of everything I saw (it was dark outside but anyway I was exited) and loved the heat. Feeling such heat as I felt in The Gambia is a synonym to me for a relaxing holiday. T…

I was in Egypt in february this year. It was my first real touch with this amazing country. Im back now from my second trip and still full of lot of wonderful feelings and experiencies...I ll be back soon...

2002 undergraduate study abroad trip during my junior year at Pomona College. I spent 4 months living with several families in Botswana, 1 month assisting on a TB surveillance at a refugee camp I was living at, and finally 1 month traveling around neighboring countries, mostly on my own.

Who knew that America was a 15 minute taxi ride from our apartment in Accra? On Sunday we decided that we couldn't stay in the compound and watch 80,000 movies for the third day in a row. So we went to the Golden Tulip Hotel. Everyone there was an obruni. We laid by the pool in fantastic weather an…

Mombasa was much more beautiful than i had thought...Had only imagined what it would be like waking up to see the blue ocean very morning uganda being a land locked country......I still live in awe of the scenery and the fun we had.....A group of oveer thirty strangers from all over Africa got toga…

We started our trip in Amsterdam  in may 2008 and left for a short flight from Schiphol Amsterdam to Paris Charles de Gaulle, France. After a short stop and meeting our fellow travelers we got on to our plane that took us in 10.5 hours to the OR Tambo International Airport, …

it's here where i was born , it's my hometown and i love it

There isn’t much to do in Kigoma which is the main town on the Lake Tanganyika; most of the foreigners here are missionaries, aid workers and very few NGO's. So with my friends (the craziest group in the region (lol)), we try once in a while to change our routine from parties at each other'…