Africa Travel Blogs - Page 6

Up at 7AM b/c of Ann's alarm, we got ready and walked the four blocks to the metro. Quiet, still, there were no cars around and just a few sleepy tourist policemen. One lazily picking lint off his uniform, the other leaning his head against his rifle. We entered the train station. The floors gleame…

I had always wanted to visit Egypt.  There are millions of things to see there and two days is not enough, but I did what I could in that amount of time. I left Indianapolis on Thursday afternoon on a Continental Express Embraer 145 to Newark.  The NYC area was under air traffic control …

You can't be bored in Sharm. Although it is a place built only for tourist, there are so many things and occasion to do. There are so many beautiful coral reefs, sun is shining so intensive and tradesmen shout so loud. It is only 15 min to Naama Bay, the shopping district and anot…

We were really surprised by the hospitality Kamal has provided. Hostel with 5 star service! If you have problem with the room Kamal will straight away deal with it professionally like if the is no hot water of its too hot, a very detail survival tips in term of directions etc. Plus where else could…

To be further updated.. but you have to check these videos out. These huge animals just hanging out on land that is rightfully theirs... it's just so extraordinary..

We landen in Johannesburg. Het is zonnig en warm (tussen de 20 en 25˚C). We stappen niet uit via de welbekende slurf, maar komen via een trap op het asfalt terecht en worden met bussen naar de terminal gebracht. Terwijl we in de rij staan voor de douane stuur ik een sms naar huis om te laten weten…

We were supposed to be leaving Chameleon Backpackers at 9am and getting picked up to be taken out to Harnas Wildlife Foundation situated just past Gobabis. There were 7 of us leaving on this day and we were still waiting at 10:20, so we decided to make a phone call to see where our driver was. "I'l…

So we are finally here and finally on our way to our adventures. After a delayed 11 hour flight we arrived in Cape Town a bit bleery eyed to be greeted by drizzle- we could have been in England! We got through immigration smoothly and then made our way to the hostel driven by a bus driver who didn'…

WE got a two day delay on our tour, we were suppose to arrive on a Saturday but because of the storm that we got to face in San Francisco we ended up  arriving on a Sunday evening...we were on the runway for six hours where i watched two movies, and after running out of food, the plane ne…

Morocco road trip Blog

 I was deeply marked by this trip, due to two facts: The genocide in 1994 and the gorillas. About the genocide, it is unbelievable the genocide that happened in Rwanda. In Spain, and I think in our western countries, the genocide was a "civil war" or "ethnic striftre"  by commentat…

INTRO This journey started in Nairobi on October 11th 2008 and led through the countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and South-Africa ending in Cape Town. Deze reis begon op 11 oktober 2008 in Nairobi en eindigde, na rondzwervingen door 7 landen, in Kaaps…

We arrived in the airport 10.35 pm and had a quick check up of our passports and identified our luggage. Afterwards we went outside the airport to have a bit of fresh air. We got in contact with a friendly woman sitting with her sleeping child on the stairs. She told us a little bit of Zanzibar. We…

The first day in Tunisia we went for a long walk. We felt really as if we were very far from home. So very different from the cold Holland. They thought us how to negotiate about prices, gave us tea, and welcomed us very friendly. The hotel owner is also a very nice person (in fact he is still in t…

A birthday in Ghana is like a birthday in no other place, at least mine wasn't! Most of the volunteers who had arrived at on the same day as me had left, and there was a new batch here, but they were away on the Cape Coast trip I had been on a few weeks earlier. There were three other people at the…