http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Heide-and-Jordan/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Heide and Jordan en-us Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:03:14 +0000 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:03:14 +0000 Nothing seems strange here it all feels familiar. It feels so natural being in Nepal. Not like Africa where I felt like a foreigner here I just feel at home. I was so happy as I flew over Nepal and saw the Himalaya's for the very first time. I could sense that I was going to absolutely love this place and I was right. The mountains were so majestic and beautiful and I just looked down from http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/blog-113940.html Leaving Arusha for the Serengeti was very exciting. We have been in Africa for quite some time now with the past couple of weeks being quite difficult and it will be nice to let our guard down and be taken care of for eight days while on safari. Luxury. Something we have not had in quite some time. No lugging our backpacks around planning what bus we were going to take what time we would arr http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-109484.html So I am back home.........four months into my ten month trip. It was a hop skip and a jump and I was back in Vancouver just like that. Well not really just like that I was in Nepal after all far enough in that I was just hours away from starting an 11 day trek through the Himalayas. But now I was very unexpectantly on a plane taking me back to where I started this whole amazing adventur http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/blog-112402.html Well this is a blog I never expected to be writing.......believe it or not we are on our way home four months into our 10 month trip. I have had some unexpected issues to deal with in Vancouver which has meant I need to come home for a couplethree weeks. I am still in shock but I am adjusting towards being really excited to see everyone I am sad because it has meant the cancellation o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Thamel/blog-110620.html Dar Es Salaam is a very strange city the kind that is neat to experience but you would never want to stay for any length of time at least in my eyes. It is the capital city of Tanzania and is so full of contrasts.As we arrived into the ferry port at Dar Es Salaam I was pleased to see that it wasn't quite as chaotic as I had been told it was. As a matter of fact only one taxi driver approach http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Dar-es-Salaam/blog-103002.html I was surprinsingly emotional this morning as I stood taking pictures of the sunrise from atop the cliff. Lake Manyara who would have thought Today is not only my 35th birthday but also the one year anniversary of the beginning of the end of my house on Burris street and my life as I knew it. It was one year ago today that I was supposed to go downtown to meet some friends for a birthday d http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-108061.html I am in a terrible position. The girl who was looking after my cats is now taking them to the spca. I have to fly home if I cannot find a home in the next two days the next available flight. If anyone could possibly take them please let me know asap or if you know anyone. I know this is a longshot but is my last resort before flying home they are all I have left from the fire.With sadne http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-110292.html I really love the villages of Africa. The air conditioning at our hotel is nice when the temperature hits 40 degrees cable every few weeks brings me a luxury I used to think of as a curse and to find a grocery store would be like finding the golden ticket. All the luxuries of home are extra enjoyable when you've been in Africa for a few months but the villages are really where it's at. There http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/blog-102978.html PAJE ZANZIBARWaking up remembering where I was before I opened my eyes..............wow. Zanzibar. Remembering the airport with the touts outside the one hour taxi ride through the backroads of Zanzibar the muslim men all wearing their islamic prayer caps and pilgrimage robes the women covered from head to toe with just their eyes peering out the donkey's pulling their carts as a way of ev http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/blog-100962.html THE RWANDA GENOCIDEWhen I despair I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincable but in the end they always fall think of it always. Mahatma Gandhi I experienced some of the most horrific tr http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Arusha/blog-105181.html November 1 2006We made it through our sweltering bus ride to Lusaka the capital city of Zambia to catch our train actually to catch our next hot bus to Kapiri Mposhi to catch our train. We were so hot by the time we got to Lusaka that we ended up checking into the Lusaka Hotel right in the center of town on Cairo Road because it had airconditioning. For this luxury our accommodation cost we http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Kapiri-Mposhi/blog-97028.html After making it back onto our bus after the Ngepi Camp we were much more relaxed and looking forward to experiencing Zambia. We knew that we were now about to enter the Africa we had been waiting for and we were right. During the 12 hour sweltering hot bus ride we saw the landscape temperature and way of life change before our very eyes. Nothing but small villages with mud huts for hours on e http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Livingstone/blog-102979.html October 12 2006Ok..... so I know not all of you are going to want to look at hoardes and hoardes of animal pictures but you know me......animals animals animals This is what I came to Africa for. So......if you would like to look at the massive amounts of pictures feel free to do so if not just carry on with your day this way Jordan and I will have them on our blog as our own memories http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Etosha-National-Park/blog-96897.html October 19 2006The time has come to leave Namibia. We have the spent the past month here and have become quite attached. The country is so huge with so many different landscapes and things to do you would never get bored here. Namibia can also be a very easy African country to travel with all the amenities of home if you want them well almost all efficiency is not yet an option nor is lu http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/blog-97024.html Hey everybody this is Jordan......... We are in Livingstone Zambia now central Africa and we really love this town. We really love Zambia it will be hard to leave here. There is so much to do and it really feels like we are in Africa.Wow Today was great I did three really great things today. I did the flying fox the gorge swing and abseiling. I will explain each one the first one was th http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Livingstone/blog-98326.html After leaving Walvis Bay we had a little more energy. We headed over to the next town called Swakopmund which turned out to be a very developed holiday town actually the one where Brangelina had their baby. It is a very quaint town with a great atmosphere and lots to do and see. We ended up staying here almost 9 days. However you couldn't really tell you were in Africa. The drive between http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Swakopmund/blog-93529.html Hey TanHappy birthday to you...............happy birthday to you................happy birthday dear grunt..........happy birthday to youWell I am not sure what you did last night for your birthday but if you did not do too much I certainly partied enough for the both of us. Only because it was your birthday of course. Rugby is very big here in Namibia and the top two teams were playi http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Swakopmund/blog-93734.html So we are on the road to Sossusvlei. Other than the fact that I have no clean clothes and have not showered I am feeling much better and am looking forward to reaching the dunes. We passed through a little town called Rehoboth and it felt like we were in the real Africa I could tell because I was uncomfortable. But that's what it is all about I like that feeling. As you get off the main high http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/blog-92515.html Well I finally left Chameleon Backpakers' today and Windhoek itself. I see that as of my last blog I intended to stay for one night until I could get a rental car together that was a week ago. I woke up the day after the 27 hour bus ride feeling refreshed and little more comfortable in my surroundings however it was still my goal to rent a car that afternoon and head out to the sand dunes in http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Windhoek/blog-92466.html We left Cape Town yesterday and have just arrived in Windhoek Namibia today after a 19 hour bus ride. Oh pardon me did I say 19 hours I meant to say 27. Yes after the breakdown on the side of the road Supa Quick car repairs was not so supa quick and the bus company not finishing the necessary paperwork to get us through immigration at 1230 in the morning the 19 hour bus ride turned i http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Windhoek/blog-90613.html