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My Dad Always Said That If You Could Speak Urdu You would Always Find Someone To Talk Too
Published: June 6th 2006Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Wasini Island
April 9th 2006
The Marine and Wildlife Research and Community Development in East Africa. I had actually managed to make it across Africa, overland in 7 days and join the expedition on time. Next up was the trip back down to Shimoni right in the South East corner of Kenya. In other words back the way I had come a couple of days before!!! The journey took about 2 and a ½ hours. During which time I realised that I had lost my trusty fleece (which had doubled up as a pillow on more than one occasion), about 30 GBP and a sudoku book that I had been using to keep my mind busy. Damn. We got to Shimoni and started to prepare for Mkwiro village on Wassini Island, the place where we would be living for the next ... read more
April 8th 2006
Welcome to Egypt We have made it to the bustling streets of Cairo. All the horror stories of Cairo that I have heard in my research of this place have been so very, very wrong. This is a wonderful city. Even before landing the flight steward on our flight in (on a brand new plane that was nearly empty, which made it very cushy) offered to give us lift into town. We landed after 5:00 and were at our hotel at 6:00. Not a single hassle except for the guy who wanted money for giving me a paper towel in the bathroom. The Ishmalia House Hotel is amazing. We have a birds eye view over the heart of the city, a busy circle know as Tahir Square. The room is huge with wood floors and ... read more
April 8th 2006
random thoughts: i'm moving out to the "country" on monday. right now i living at a nice hostel type place with around 12 danish/swedish people. i'm going to move near to where i volunteer and stay with an african family (there is a dane staying there as well). the "mama" of the house cooks dinner so my diet will improve. i also eat a lot of bananas and mangoes. both are very good and quite cheap here. not much happening this week. making decent progress with the kids on their english so thats good. also giving them alots of attention and kindiness which is a lot more important. i'm planning a trip to zanzibar near the end of my stay with a danish girl so that should be fun. i'll probably go to the beach this ... read more
April 8th 2006
Friday we all got up bright and early so we could be out the door at 8am. It ended up being closer to 9am in the end, for all those reasons that sneak up on you when you least expect it. Nick came over, we picked up Morne, and the five of us were off on a car trip. First stop: McDonalds. This by request of Susie, but of course I didn’t object. There is no McDonalds in Plettenberg Bay, nor any closer than the one we ate at, so it was a special treat. (Weird to think that food I never eat at home for a reason becomes a special treat abroad). We had lunch there at 11am and we all ordered exactly the same enormous meal and proceeded onwards to Oudtshoorn, about an hour ... read more
April 8th 2006
Well we're writing this 7 months in arrear, but realise there's no picture's of swaziland on google!! am writing this with my sister, who's husband is swazi. we've been there for a total of 5 weeks during the past 2 years with their twin boys - 2 and a half as we write. i have to say if you're travelling in southern africa and have a chance to, visit swaziland! it's the most breathtakingly beautiful landscape, and if you feel in anyway unsafe in south africa (where amy had her wallet stolen - but we loved despite that!), you won't feel that way here! sd (swaziland to the locals) has a wealth of game reserves and wildlife reserves that are far better value and have easier access than those over the south african border. aside from ... read more
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April 8th 2006
My thoughts for this day- I was able to convince my boss to go out on a camp sponsored shopping trip as I had done a couple of weeks ago and enjoy himself. Upon his return he told me about how he had seen some small children that appeared to have nothing to their names. He handed out 1,000 Djiboutian Francs (equivalent to $6US) to this child and out of nowhere he was inundated with children wanting money, chewing gum, anything he had to offer. He then realized that his small gesture of generosity was becoming uncontrollable and got back on the bus. He said it reminded him of a story that was told to him once about the Mexican gypsies. He began to tell the story of a poor woman who was holding a very ... read more
April 7th 2006
We landed and amazingly have cellular service:)) Woke up at 430 this morning...at airport by 6...stuffed around at airport for 3 hours..flight delayed by 2 hours..now a 5 hour jeep ride out to the middle of nowhere. Oarzazate is beauuutiful!! Covered in adobe/sand kasbahs and rolling hills. the best news is that it doesn't feel THAT hot...at least not as hot as we were fearing. Fingers crossed that it holds. Have an enormous grin on my face to finally be here. Everything is grand..nice people from all around the world is the best bit for sure. Probably wont hear from us for a day or two. xxchloe... read more
April 7th 2006
I have just made use of the last sit down loo i will see for nine days. From now on we are going freestyle....... read more
April 7th 2006
Just received our road book for the race. We will be running 227 kilometers...at first sounded like fantastic news until we had a close look at the terrain...dunes dunes and more dunes...every day. Usually courses only have a day or two of them but we'll be doing about 10k of dunes per day. We are a bit nervous about this news but ah well...take it as it comes. Baby steps. Met so many people now and everyone is basically in the same boat...just want to finish...not too many fitness lunatics around. So hopefully we can laugh/smile our way thru it with the rest of the competitors. Loving the bright sunshine (compared to HKG smog) and loving the spirit of the event. ..its remarkable.... read more
April 7th 2006
From the parks we headed to Victoria Falls where the falls as you would expect were very impressive. A little too impressive actually because there was so much water going over them that the spray was really bad and obscured a lot of the view. Getting soaked is of course half the fun but I would have liked to have been able to take a few decent photos. On our last day at Victoria Falls Kim decided to do a skydive. I think I was more anxious than her when she jumped out of the plane at 9,000 feet. Visibility that morning was fantastic and I could just make out through my binoculars a tiny spec fall from the plane. I was mightily relieved a few seconds later to see the shoot open.... read more
