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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from James and Karen</description>
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                    <title>Out of Africa...and into frantic HK</title>
                    <description>Our African odyssey had reached an end and so it was with one last long look back at this wonderful continent that we boarded the plane at Johannesburg international airport for our flight home. But the fun wasn't over yet as we had 36 hours in Hong Kong on the way home. Can you say shoppingAll we have actually done with our 36 hours in Hong Kong is shop and sleep.  At the risk of adding more to </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-121916.html</link>
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                    <title>Water</title>
                    <description>After travelling through Muslim countries and countries where dress was fairly conservative Karen commented as she left the hotel room in shorts and a singlet top that she felt quite underdressed.  Two seconds later we spotted a man walking to the restaurant wearing nothing but speedos and flip flops.  And that set the tone for our second Vic Falls stay  laid back and completely comfortable.We </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Livingstone/blog-121503.html</link>
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                    <title>Nairobi</title>
                    <description>From Dubai we flew to Nairobi to meet up with Dotun.  We will be spending just over three weeks in Nairobi.  Our purpose for being here is to help Dotun and International Teams with the work they are doing with refugees.  Rather than giving you a daily description I have written down bits and pieces of what we have been up to.Shopping CentresNairobi has two worlds  the East African world of mat</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Kenya/Nairobi-Province/Nairobi/blog-118137.html</link>
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                    <title>Dahab Digestion</title>
                    <description>With the sun shining and the camel hire centre behind us we headed down the valley towards the coast and Dahab with the road weaving between dramatic mountains the whole way. The parts of the Sinai peninsula that we saw on this trip were really spectacular definately on the list of Places to Come Back To as I would love to explore it all a bit more.  So we rolled into Dahab. Dahab is certainly</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-114027.html</link>
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                    <title>A little bit of luxury</title>
                    <description>Whenever we had an icy cold shower or no shower at all or got leg cramps from using squat toilets James and I would say just one word Jumeirah.  The hotel was intended to be our little slice of luxury on this trip.  It turned out to be a massive wedge of indulgenceWe left our hostel and headed for the airport reason free pickup by the hotel only available from the airport and it was c</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-114047.html</link>
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                    <title>Cairo to Dubai</title>
                    <description>Back in Cairo again.  Coming back to the King Hotel was like coming home again  the place was so familiar even though we had only been there three times.  We had two nights here before our flight to Dubai.  The first night was our final night together as a group so we went out to dinner at a restaurantpub recommended by our guide.  The food was ok but the prices and atmosphere were not so great</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-114044.html</link>
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                    <title>Mt Sinai</title>
                    <description>Moses is awesome.  I totally have respect for the guy now.  I mean he was old when he climbed Mount Sinai.  And there were no teacoffee shops for him to stop at either.  Fantastic.  Starting nice and early in the morning we drove from Cairo to St Catherine Sinai stopping to view the Suez Canal and a couple of toilets.  For those of you who are concerned the toilets in Sinai are a distinct impr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/blog-112100.html</link>
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                    <title>Khan el Khalili</title>
                    <description>After leaving the laid back felucca we spent 11 hours in Luxor showering and shopping.  From Luxor we jumped aboard the train to Cairo.  The train took about 9 hours to reach Cairo during  which we discovered that toilets on Egyptian trains take a lot of courage to use.  I was not that brave...Once in Cairo we got into vegetative travel mode  the state of mind where you are so tired from trave</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-111779.html</link>
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                    <title>So Many Temples</title>
                    <description>We were quite bummed to leave Luxor particularly as we had to leave it at 6am.  However our destination held the promise of amazing temples and the start of our felucca ride so we were happy to be up at such a delightfully early hour.  The reason for this departure time is that everyone has to travel in a convoy of buses.  I don't understand the point as it is meant to be for our safety but what</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Aswan/blog-111106.html</link>
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                    <title>Felucca</title>
                    <description>The felucca left us so laid back that we can't be bothered writing about it at the moment.  A few points that James wants to mentionThe smoke is from a sheesha.  Not hash.  Just flavoured tobacco.  It is a popular part of Egyptian culture.James is not passed out.  Just sleeping.The temple was interesting.  The toilet stops were more interesting.  Karen is working her way through the emotional tra</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/blog-111112.html</link>
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                    <title>Lounging in Luxor</title>
                    <description>The end of our desert odyssey brought us to the town of Luxor. Located on the Nile river as are most of the population in Egypt it is famous for a number of ancient monuments. These include the Valley of the Kings the Valley of the Queens The Temple of Queen Hatshepshut Luxor Temple and the Karnak Temple complex as well as a few other temples and monuments scattered around the place. We were</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Luxor/blog-111108.html</link>
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                    <title>Pyramids</title>
                    <description>Probably the most identifiably Egyptian location the Pyramids have captured the minds of travellers for hundreds of years. And now we finally got our turn to see them for ourselves.We set out fairly early still learning the names of our fellow group members in the bus on the way out there and after negotiating the Cairo morning traffic we saw the distinctive points of the pyramids rising above </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Giza/blog-109828.html</link>
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                    <title>Western Desert</title>
                    <description>White Desert Imagine spending your wedding anniversary camping under the stars in the White Desert the full moon negating any need for a torch.  The only other lights comes from the glow of a campfire around which several Bedouin guides are seated.  In honour of your wedding anniversary they sing you a Bedouin love song.  Later that night you retire to your sleeping bags trying to keep your eye</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/blog-109823.html</link>
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                    <title>To drive like an Egyptian</title>
                    <description>In order to drive like an Egyptian one must do at least two of the following  Drive at excessive speeds Use the horn at every opportunity even when it is not necessary neccesary moments include when people walk near the road  when there is a car in front of you when the sun is shining and when you haven't used the horn in the last minute Drive on the wrong side of the road Drive the wro</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-109601.html</link>
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                    <title>Chimpanzees Swinging from the Trees</title>
                    <description>Photos to come soon...Our last minute addition to our Ugandan itinerary paid off and we spent over an hour today with a large group of chimpanzees in the rain forest of Kibale National Park outside the western Ugandan town of Fort Portal.Yesterday we drove from Kisoro where we had based ourselves to see the gorillas. It was a long drive but took us through some amazing scenery. The south western </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Western-Region/Fort-Portal/blog-106679.html</link>
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                    <title>Mzungus in the Mist</title>
                    <description>All of a sudden there was a rustling in the trees just twenty metres away.  We looked at each other and grinned like mad.  We could hardly believe that we were about to enter the world of the mountain gorillas.There are only about 720 mountain gorillas left in the world making it one of the most endangered species on the planet.  There are no mountain gorillas in captivity those in zoos are gene</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Rwanda/blog-106089.html</link>
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                    <title>Start of the Nile</title>
                    <description>We have been quite busy since the last blog catching up with family and making our way to Kampala Uganda.We flew out on Tuesday from Arusha over Mount Kiliminjaro obscured by cloud of course and in to Nairobi where we met up with James' mum.  Yes that's right.  Janice James and I hung out at the airport in Nairobi catching up on gossip and news.  Surreal  Yep.  Janice flew out for Sydne</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Eastern-Region/Jinja/blog-106077.html</link>
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                    <title>Lions lions everywhere</title>
                    <description>After the wide open spaces of the Serengeti we journeyed to the world famous Ngorongoro crater. In case you didn't already know the crater is an ancient volcano that eventually collapsed in on itself leaving the approximately 20km diameter crater that is there now. The crater rim is at approximately 2300m above sea level and completely encloses the floor that is several hundred meters lower w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Ngorongoro-Conservation-Area/blog-105114.html</link>
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                    <title>Meeting the Masai</title>
                    <description>From when we were in the Karioko Markets in Dar es Salaam the Masai people have been catching our eye in their distinctive bright red purple andor blue robes and ornate jewellery. The security guards at our Hotel on Zanzibar were also Masai and there were some in Stone Town as well. They are a very striking people generally tall brightly dressed and obviously proud of their background. We wer</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Ngorongoro-Conservation-Area/blog-105111.html</link>
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                    <title>Serengeti</title>
                    <description>What does the name Serengeti National Park bring to your mind  Endless plains teeming with animals a sky that seems so much bigger than at home the chance to get up close to the Big 5  This was in our minds as we passed through the gates of the Ngorgoro Conservaton Area and then into Serengeti National Park.  We had spent the morning driving from Lake Eyasi to Oldupai Gorge site of the disco</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-104924.html</link>
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