http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa en-us Mon, 30 Nov 09 03:33:40 +0000 Mon, 30 Nov 09 03:33:40 +0000 OK ... the DRC ... wowLet me just start with the journey I have been on to reach this country...It all started on Monday the 16th of November...Actually I'm backing up to late Sunday afternoon when I finally organized a ride to Joburg. I found out that there was this guy travelling to the airport in Joburg Monday afternoon and he was willing to take me with him for free ... pretty good start righ http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Congo-Democratic-Republic/South/blog-456520.html Greetings from AfricaHere is our blog for Mozambique which has been one of our favourite countries so far. The first thing that hits you about the country is the size of it And north of the Zambezi river how untouched by tourism it is. The country is very different between north and south with the south being close to South Africa and much more setup for tourism. Mozambique is the only countr http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-456499.html It has been awhile Africa has been keeping me busy busy busy.My trip to kruger national park was fantastic and eventful. It was about a three hour drive in the safari vehicle we took. We stopped about halfway in Hoedspruit to get food for the two braaibbq as we would say. So I got some chicken. Excited to get some protein after being a little protein deprived. After being lucky on our first dri http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-456330.html I have been to this valley recently its a pretty good place to take my mind of in Daresalaam. This seems to be like an ancient riverbed or some kind of lake i don't know yet but ill find that out soon and what seems to be interesting about this place is the natural way that the people live in this particular valley in such a way that i feel right at home when i cross.when you start to descend to http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Dar-es-Salaam/blog-456326.html Ive been up to a personal project recently and i have been moving to different places in the outskirts of Dare salaam inside the beautiful mysterious valleys probably unknown to the rest of the world. And what i was doing was pretty unusual yes really unusual for a Tanzanian to do this and i was simply looking for plants that are uniquely found and flourishing in Tanzania.Since i started the pho http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Dar-es-Salaam/blog-456318.html After a week in Burkina Faso we need to post a blog as there is so much to tell and show. We have almost 400 pictures from the past several days way too much to include on a blog. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and while I believe that to be true our pictures however still do not truly capture our experience. It is very difficult to describe Africa and our experiences. So an http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-456313.html My journey begins rather inauspiciously firstly with an hour delay to the flight and then the stubbornly stiff top button of my new trousers decides to pop off. Arriving in Sharm elSheikh I am quickly mobbed by a bunch of taxi drivers hustling the airport crowd and despite haggling to 13 of the original price am undoubtedly ripped off. My young driver does his best however to give me value http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/blog-455800.html Nov 16thWow what an interesting couple of days. Out first full day in Arusha was awesome we slept in a bit but everyone in the house is used to being up and out the door at the crack of dawn so it was too loud to stay in bed too long. There was modest but decent breakfast waiting for us and once we ate we decided to walk into town. It took us about 20 minutes to get to the downtown area and all http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-455751.html Giftun Island can be reached by many tourist boats taking off from Hurgada in less then an hour. The sand is really white and water magic. And we did lot of snorkeling along the coral reefs too. The area is protected and construction forbidden but there are too many tourists for my taste. Luckily the stay on the Island is limited so they donrsquot manage to disperse and make more damage but be http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Red-Sea/Hurghada/blog-455576.html thank you so much to everyone for all of your thoughts and prayers. this last week has be crazy scary. but most importantly i am out of the hospital and getting better.it's so hard to know where to begin. it's such a long story and so much emotion goes along with it that it's kind of hard to collect all my thoughts right now. so i will give you the shortened version leaving out the gory details http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Kenya/Western-Province/Bingoma/blog-455524.html El Gouna is a resort 22km north of Hurgada. It is actually a hotel town owned by an orthodox Copt Samih Sawiris one of the richest people in Egypt. It is striking and very artificial real Trumanrsquos Show. The beauty is in a system of canals that cut into the sand and make up private beaches to colourful low traditionally designed houses. Desert is transformed into oasis by using irrigati http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Red-Sea/blog-455516.html We got up very early this morning and left Franschhoek at 8am. About 12 hour into our drive we finally met a family of baboons. We saw 8 adults and a juvenile they were playingforaging at the side of the road. Brian pulled over so we could take photos but we did not get out of the car to avoid having our passports stolen by the baboons not a joke Later on we saw a momma with a ti http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Wilderness/blog-455322.html Today is Leslie's birthday The reason for the trip. Or at least the impetus for the trip. Leslie wore a tiara all day and was a little unsettled that noone commented other than the three of us. We were allowed a rare late start to the day Brian was meeting us at 1100. Last night after Elephant and Barrel we went to Burgandy's for dessert. It was a nice place to go for dessert and cof http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Stellenbosch/blog-455315.html Well after the trekking in the mountains we decided to just spend the last couple of days chilling and relaxing in the sunshine. We went to the new water park just outside of Marrakech luckily yep luckily as it was out of season most of it was closed but what was open was the lovely peaceful 'quiet pool' where we spent the day just soaking up the rays and swimming no children no noise it rea http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Marrakech-Tensift-El-Haouz/Marrakech/blog-455283.html Hurgada is 36km long seashore resort on the Red Sea. It seamed rather new and boring so nothing attracted us except prospect of snorkeling in the famous waters and visiting our friends Tamara and Marko who worked in El Gouna.We decided to go over agency because it was impossible to get to charter flight from Belgrade to Hurgada otherwise. Joca lost a wallet on the plane and a friendly guy found it http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Red-Sea/Hurghada/blog-455276.html I haven't written for so long Somehow each day when I reflect back on my time here it doesn't seem like much has happened but now that I look back I have so much to shareThe Swedes Last week a few of my friends on the program and I were invited to a party by these random Swedish people through a mutual friend. We ended up walking to the party in the dark while buckets of rain poured on us from http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Botswana/blog-455230.html The Ten most WET facts in the GBRTen facts on the worldrsquos wetness1. What is the worldrsquos longest river2. What is the worldrsquos oldest ocean3. What is the worldrsquos smallest ocean4. What is the worldrsquos largest river basin5. Where is the deepest part of the worldrsquos oceans6. Which is the worldrsquos clearest sea7. Where are the largest untapped fossil fuel reso http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-455212.html Runescape is a great game. A free mmo it has an extremely large following of game players. Many will rely on the cooking skill for health replacement while they are in battles.Even if there are frequent trips to places with spits and stoves the main way of getting food on the go will have the playing knowing what recipes will be able to be done with just a fire. These are those cooking recipes t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-455157.html Irsquove not moved much from Nairobi this week. Even though Irsquove been busting to get out of the city Irsquom glad I stayed for a few days. Irsquove settled into the new vibe a little bit and it seems to me Irsquove done a lot. The bugs are gone from my room and so has the bag of toys I lugged over here. It was entirely worth it. The plan had been to visit a school with a deafb http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Kenya/Nairobi-Province/Nairobi/blog-455110.html There is no question that what attracts people to Egypt at the moment tends to be the past. So far we haven't seen a great deal of the really old stuff that is scheduled to happen in the next couple of weeks but it is still impossible not to feel that the past is important here. It doesn't begin and end with the pyramids though. There are echoes of the past in a lot of areas.The first time we http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-455097.html