Blogs from Africa - page 15

This was my second trip to Africa with Travel Talk (first was Egypt in 2010) and I absolutely loved it. I did a tour called Adventure Morocco. This tour was for 8 days and started and ended in Marrakech. I booked this with a friend to get the 2 4 1 deal. Here is the link for the Itinerary http://traveltalktours.com/morocco/tour/adventure-morocco/ Below is some helpful information on the tour. This tour is by coach so you do spend a few hours travelling between your destinations. The tour leader will explain about the history and the towns/villages and people you drive by to get a better feeling for what you are looking at. There are plenty of photo ops along the way. All breakfast were provided, a couple lunches and dinners but the meals not provided meant you ... read more

3/30/2013 TITLE: Ksar El Kebir begins In less than 24 hours in Ksar, we have a new host home, we have walked around town, met many people, set a meeting with an association and come to terms with our new environment. It was exciting to wake up and think about what might happen on the first full day, but not exciting to think about our toilet or shower situation. “It is what is” is a mantra we seem to start many days with. However, this morning, we ignored those aforementioned unfortunate issues and went down for breakfast at 9:30 a.m., the time we were told breakfast was regularly served. It was the typical and yummy bread, laughing cow cheese, olive oil, olives and hard-boiled eggs breakfast. Ann was so happy to see the coffee and hot ... read more

Last week was a bore, at the beginning of the week, as I was trying to catch up on my sleep from traveling to Kumasi, the week before. But the boredom did not last too long as my friend, Sena, (who I finally have a picture with!!) had a dance performance at Alliance France. This was on Wednesday evening, so of course, I found my way over to the Alliance France complex to see the beauty in dance and the arts as a whole. I was in a whole new world, (not to steal from Aladdin) when I entered Alliance, the atmosphere was like GIS (the International School that I’ve mentioned before) in the sense that it hid the pollution of the streets of Ghana, and there were so many posh internationals! I was once again, ... read more

Départ de Tiznit 29 mars J'ai finalement atteint la petite ville portuaire de Sidni Ifni vers 18h00 hier soir, étouffé par un surplus de passagers surdimensionnés dans le taxi Mercedes. Ouf. J'ai posé ensuite mon lourd sac dans ma chambre crématoire d'hôtel avant de me coller le derrière sur une terrasse panoramique devant une tajine à la poulpe. La pieuvre, ça se colle bien à la tajine vous savez. Et ça se colle bien aussi entre deux molaires. Ca explique peut-être pourquoi j'ai la bouche caoutchouteuse ce matin. Bon. Malgré cela, je suis bien reposé... quoique la mollesse de mes couchettes des derniers jours m'ont un peu courbaturé. A moins que ce soit le transport en taxi de Tiznit à ici qui commence à se faire sentir dans mon bas de dos. Ce serait normal ça, ... read more

First and foremost... THANKS FOR HANGING IN THERE AND WAITING FOR US!!! Due to circumstances beyond our control (and our belief!!!), we have been delayed in writing! We are back and shall resume normal posts. We will try to compress the month of April for the sake of your eyes and patience! 3/28/2013 TITLE: Hitting “pay dirt” in some ways, but not in others….. Looking out the window as we arrived in Ksar by train, provided a glimpse of a city much larger than our former town of Ain Cheggag. The train stopped and we threw off our bulky luggage onto the concrete platform. To our immensely happy surprise, after the very trying mishaps in Rabat, there was a porter with a cart. The porter nicely handled our bags and also found us a taxi!!! It ... read more

Hurghada In April of 2007 my dream to visit Egypt has come true! 9 days and 8 nights were full of much impression which I'm going to tell on my Egyptian pages. I arrived to Hurghada on Saturday morning in April, 14. I spent there the whole day and next morning went to Luxor with excursion program which lasted almost a week. I came back to Hurghada on Saturday evening in April, 21. The whole day of Sunday I enjoyed the sea and the beach. What have I seen during two days? What have I got to know about Hurghada being in Moscow? All that I tried to present on my Hurghada-page. I understand that it can hardly be compeer with impressions of tourists who spent there a week or even more... But nevertheless! Hurghada is ... read more