Blogs from Africa - page 2982

Ladies, if you're hard-pressed finding a husband, a flight to Egypt and/or the Middle East is as good as a walk down the aisle. I was proposed to 12 times since stepping onto Arabic soil in Jordan a few weeks ago! Bus Estonia and guide Erki delivered another wonderful experience - one week in Jordan. What an incredible place. The Roman ruins of Jerash, the magnificent naturally fortified ancient Nabatean city of Petra, the country's biblical significance, the kind people, their culture, the desert, the Bedouins, Bedouin tea and smothering myself in mineral-rich mud from the Dead Sea. The Middle East is one region I definitely plan to explore further. Next stop was Cairo. Jordanians warned me about Cairenes and their persistent ways, but I put their alerts down to a friendly trans-Red Sea rivalry. But ... read more

Yes I went on wine tour... whilst Rik (daredevil extraordinare ) went paragliding!!!... read more

Version FR un peu plus bas Hello, I am in Livingstone in Zambia near the amazing Victoria Falls. I know this is out of order but I wanted to share some pics of Maputo in Mozambique, I was finally able to resize my pictures and they now upload pretty quickly (great news!). I would love to go back to this city and spend more time exploring the markets and trying more of the local dishes. So, here are a few pictures of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. This was my first big African city and I loved it! So much energy, so many colors and so much going on! This is exactly how I had pictured it. We spent a couple days there and were able to stroll through the market, eat awesome grilled prawns with ... read more

So we left Ghana a while back now and after entering Togo on a river-bed type road where the delapidated border posts were filled with mountains of corn on the cobs (don't ask - I don't know) we have headed south through Togo and then crossed at a slightly more uptempo border into Benin where we now reisde in the eastern most town and capital of Porto Novo. Togo was very small but very beautiful, the town of Atakpamé our highlight which was a small town with a real French colonial feel to it, Peugeot 504s rolling down the cobbled streets to a backdrop of wide leaved vegetation that gave me a sense of an Indian Jungle. We took a trip higher into the mountains early in the morning, the mist still hangin in the valleys ... read more

Hi Everyone, Here they are, a few pics of the widlife in Africa. It was tough picking only a few, as you can imagine I have a ton of them, when you are 10 feet away from an elephant or a rhino, one suddenly turns into a Japanese tourist and can't stop firing the camera! The game drives were incredible, whether in the morning (wake up call at 3:30 am!) afternoon (searing heat) or evening (the perfect golden light - a photographer's paradise). A few of us, especially Franz and Stefan were really good at spotting wildlife, which can be tough with the tall grass and dust. We saw 3 lions but they were a bit far and I was not able to snatch a picture. I am sure I will get more shots in Botswana! ... read more