Blogs from Africa - page 3206

It was the 30th birthday party and it was really the first time we really enjoyed!!!!!Well thanks to my colleagues and sometimes different languages can create more jokes than when we are speaking the same language! Fuck I am old now...... ... read more

Hey guys, Sorry for not posting in a few days proving hard to keep track of time out here, Nick doesnt even know what day of the week it is, ever!! Last you heard from us we were in 40 degree weather in Mossel Bay. Since then we travelled to Plettenburg bay about a 3 hour drive from Mossel bay, it is a little seaside town. We expected the pace of life to change from Cape Town and were quite looking forward to it really! We satyed in Nothando which was more of a home than a hostel, this was run by an older man called Charles and his wife. They were both lovely and Charles even gave us a guided tour on the way to the hostel from the bus stop! The room we had ... read more

I was at the bus station at 8.30 all ready and waiting for the bus to depart at 9, like the timetable said it would. 9 came and went. As did 10. We finally set off at 10.45 headed for Lusaka the capital of Zambia, which in itself is classified as being 'Somewhere in Central Africa'. The first part of the journey I started to talk to a white Zambian who started to explain the problems black Zambians have. The jist of the conversation was that they are lazy and dont plan for the future. At first I put this down to racism however his seat on the bus was taken by a a black Zambian student. On our way up we started talking about what Zambia, and Africa, was actually like too live in. We ... read more

The spice tour was great. We visited plantations and local villages that had spices growing in the backyard. We saw how curry was grown, cinnimon, cardamom, vanilla, ginger, coffee, and more. After the tour and march throught the fields we were taken to a village for lunch. we were seated on the floor in groups of five and fed delicous coconut curry fish, jasmine rice, chapati and local spinach peanut combo. When I saw food is delicious I mean better than normal. Most of Africa is not known for its delicacies. In fact most of the time its down right grim. Rice and beans or ugali and beans. For my faithful readers, ugali is the same as Malawi's 'nsima', or Zimbabwe's 'sadza' mazie gground up to make some sort of paste. its not delicious. But I'm ... read more

Hello friends and neighbors. We are on the last leg of our 5 week travels in Africa. Our organized tour ended in Cape Town, where we stayed with friends and friends of friends. Cape Town reminds us so much of San Francisco, because of the Mediterranean climate, landscape, and trendy life style. Of all South Africa, Cape Town is the most modern, first worldly, cosmopolitan in style. After about a week of Cape Town, we still had over one week left before our necessary return to the northern hemisphere winter, so we decided to take a trip up to see Victoria Falls, considered one of the seven natural wonders of the world. in order to do this, we flew from Cape Town to Johannesburg (Jo-burg, Janisburg), then to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, on the Zambezi River, ... read more