Blogs from Africa - page 3036

After our Safari, we spent one night each in Arusha and Moshi. Nothing much to see and we were quite surprised how small they both are. It was a good time to relax a little bit and from Moshi we were able to see Mount Kilimanjaro - with snow at the top - quite a sight. We then travelled to Dar es Salaam and took a flight to Dubai We have been in Dubai since this morning - it's little milder this time - only 30 degrees (very humid though). We were able to get the Internet Cafe here and are off to India on Thursday. Hopefully we will update more from Kerala. Sorry, no pictures. It is very difficult at some of the Internet Cafes to publish pictures.... read more

So It's about time I added some more stuff to this page before I start getting complaints that I haven't written anything. I'm afraid I can't show you any photos yet as I'm in a hostel in the sticks which has just about got internet access and no more. So Cape Town was amazing. Sarah arrived a couple of days after me so I had a couple of days just sussing out the area before she got here. The first day we just did Cape Town and walked down to the waterfront whcih was very nice. Sarah got slightly carried away with all the African things for sale and bought a load of salad servers and giraffes - only to find that every other shop sold exactly the same thing! We also decided to treat oursleves ... read more

Well, the past two days have been very exciting and exhausting. We finally left Plettenburg Bay and headed inland to this little town called Outsdhoorn. Don't ask me how to pronounce it, I have had many locals laugh at me when asking how to get there. This town is not very exciting but the backpackers hostel is amazing. It is called Paradise Backpackers and the name really says it all. I love watching Jordan doing his school work in the gardens with the owls hooting in the background. They have a really funny dog named Pheonix that will entertain you for hours - I do believe she is a bit wacko. The hostel is family run and Petra, the lady of the house, is so friendly and welcoming. She makes dinner every night, a dinner of ... read more

Working with Engineers Without Borders, one might expect me to be designing solar ovens or installing wells or developing new technology for Zambia’s development. But that’s not how we roll. We focus on building the capacity of local organizations. This essentially means that we help organizations who are already on the ground do their jobs better. In my case, EWB has partnered with the Zambia Agribusiness Technical Assistance Centre Ltd., a legally registered, independent, non-profit Zambian private organization. It may seem to be a misnomer that ZATAC is both a private organization and non-profit, but this is in fact the case. ZATAC doesn’t have shareholders who take in the company’s profits as a typical private company would, but it has guarantors who oversee the organization, but do not take any financial gain from their involvement - ... read more

well, im here....after the longest, most painful plane ride I have had yet. I made it here and all I can say is its bloody hot! My first impressions of Sudan are simple, hot! But its great there are so many people from differnt cultures Ethiopian, Eretrian, Arab, Sudanese, Westerns from all countries. There are so many more Westerners here than I originally thought there would be and in one place in particular you feel like you could be in any counrty around the world. "ozone", its called and its just as expensive as getting food in Western countries. They sell things like pasteries, cousoints (excuse the bad spelling) coffee, etc. Everyone one I have met has been so nice especially when Im not picking up any arabic (note: ive only been in Sudan for 3 ... read more