Blogs from Africa - page 2761

Route Map to TanzaniaGuichitoTrip # 2..... A few days after I get back from Egypt, I head out to Tanzania. Here are the flight routes...... read more

Elephant Orphanage Visited the baby elephants which have been rescued from the surrounding area. We got our first glimpse of the African plains and National Parks. The baby elephants were really cute, especially the tiny ones in their fleecy blankets. With only a rope between us, we could stroke them as they chased past us for the football (good soccer players - better than the Baggies evidently!). The bigger babies came out to say hello. One fell over which prompted a hilarious game of pile on! Our friendly personal driver for the day Steve aka Mr Whiffy(!) then took us to the Giraffe Feeding This was a great little park where you could feed endangered Rothschild giraffes by hand from a platform. They were huge! We fed them but Jase had to take up the ... read more

21-27 May I left Marrakesh full of orange juice and started making my way back to northern Morocco in preparation for returning to Spain. My desination was the town of Chefchaouen in the Rif Mountains, and it proved to be a good choice. The town was big enough to accomodate all traveling needs but small enough to not feel overcrowded. The old part of town is off-limits to cars, so it was nice an quiet, and day hikes and treks in the nearby mountains were easy. Chefchaoen is about 550 years old and, like many out of the way mountain communities, historically had its own little peculiarities and quirks. In this particular instance, they didn't like people coming and poking their noses into the town's business. So much so that Christians were barred from the ... read more

Today a day in the life of Tommy and Eileen woke up, this morning at Whale song lodge to go Shark diving. We were booked through our Inn, and arrived at the diving site around 8:00am. We were with people from Australia (Tanzania) and Africa to name a few. Once we took off on our 42 ft shark cage fishing boat called Barracuda, we realized it was a little shadier operation than we anticipated. I don’t discourage anyone from ever trying this experience but, I guess the regulations are very different for tourism/boating in Africa. Anyway, we were barely given instruction except to put on this wet suit, and me, Tommy and 3 others were instructed to jump into the ocean, in a cage that was submerged into the ocean. The cage had to be like ... read more

ANIMAL SPOTTINGS Morning Tour:  Hippopotamus (Near waterhole)  Cheetah (In grassy area)  Elephant  Cape Buffalo herd  Southern Giraffes (Mother and baby in the distance)  Burchell’s Zebras  Blue Wildebeest  Warthogs  Impala  Side Striped Jackals  Slender Mongoose  Small Spotted Genet  Barn Owl (Flew out of water tank) Evening Tour:  Hyenas at den with babies  Cape Buffalo  Black Breasted Snake Eagle  Waterbuck  Lesser Bushbaby  Baboons  Warthogs  Slender Mongoose  Bush Buck  Impalas  Scrub Hares ... read more