Blogs from Africa - page 2730

When I first arrived in to East Africa, I came jam-packed with a mental list of things I wanted to do. Tracking mountain gorillas was not on the list as it costs $300~$500 just for the permits into the national parks in Rwanda and Uganda, and that was a shocker coming fresh off the India trail where I was traveling at $10-15 a day. I justified my decision with the thought, how special could it be... with 97% DNA similarities and weighing 440 lbs, they're just bigger, hairier versions of us. The pains of shoestring backpacking! A day later after talking with other backpackers I met at the hostel in Nairobi, I concluded that HAD to go track the gorillas! I had to sacrifice going to the Serengeti for the wildebeest migration *sniffle sniffle* off my ... read more

Sorry this entry was lost in the Travel Blog Crash.. But at least we can still enjoy the pictures ~Julie ... read more

So, today is called Drop Off Day. Basically they drop off people in pairs in the middle of Kampala and we each have tasks. Mine was to find out about the different banks and find out where the best rates were. It is to make you realize that you can navigate the city and that it is not so big and unknown after all. And that is definetely true. The people here are so nice. And Kampala is not as big afterall. The worst part is thr traffic though because there are no lights, nothing, basically no rules of the road that I can tell. Yesterday, we learned a bit of L'Uganda which is the language that most people speak here. Hopefully that will help me get around a little bit easier. We ate at a ... read more

Cape Town - The Final Farewell Africa » South Africa » Cape Town By NJWSJune 15th 2007Neil Sargent Thursday 28th June - almost nine months to the day since I left home on my adventures and I’m packing up ready to return home. I’m struggling to put down in words what the past four months in Cape Town has meant to me. It’s been an incredible journey and one which I am truly grateful to have had. It hasn’t always been easy - life in Cape Town can be tough but at the same time it is a truly wonderful, magical place - for me, a genuine home away from home and for that I can’t thank my friends here enough. We’ve had some good times and we’ve had some bloody b... read more

Hey folks This is going to be a very brief entry, as I want it to just be visual. I am just going to attach a whole bunch of pictures, in hopes of conveying a small part of the beauty of this county. I have resized all the photos to be smaller so that they upload more quickly, but if you would like a full sized (3 megapixel) copy of a picture, email me at baalwolf@gmail.com and tell me the photo title(s). Thank you all for your comments and messages. I have been informed that "Petite Chirurgie" means "small surgery", which the Anderson clinic does not do. Feel free to pass on the link to this blog to whomever you like, as the reason that I am writing it is to inform as many people as ... read more