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Southern Africa road trip part 10 - final
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 6 July 2011
The road from Zimbabwe to Zambia As a South African, Zimbabwe is our neighbour. We have millions, yes millions, of displaced Zimbabweans trying to make a living in South Africa.
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Southern Africa road trip part 9
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 1 July 2011
Elephants on the Chobe River Once we finally managed to get onto our campsite in Chobe, we had a mad rush to pitch our tents so we could make the Chobe River game cruise.
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Southern Africa road trip part 8
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 12 June 2011
Our tents drying out Most people ask about your last holiday when you get home. I find more experienced travellers ask the most questions. Those who haven't travelled much don't really care much to hear about another destination.
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Southern Africa road trip part 7
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 6 June 2011
Going through the Okavango Delta on a Makorro Yet another early start as we headed to the Okavango Delta. Tour groups often camp on the islands in the delta but many of the islands were under water due to the high rains.
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AK-47s and the Smoke that Thunders – Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls
Blog: Vagobond.com - 5 June 2011
Victoria Falls are a UNESCO World Heritage site that straddles the boarders of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Here the Zambezi river drops almost 400 feet across a 1 mile wide face into a remarkably small cut in the earth, making it the largest falls in the world.
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Southern Africa road trip part 6
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 30 May 2011
Flamingoes in Etosha Pan We had our usual breakfast - muesli, fruit, yogurt, bread, cheeses, Nutella and preserves. The Germans took to Rooibos tea instead of regular tea. Rooibos tea is an institution in Southern Africa.
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Southern Africa road trip part 4
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 16 May 2011
Roadside stop From the dusty desert midlands of Namibia we headed west toward the coast. Our lunch stop was next to the sea in Walvis Bay. Would have been nice if they had loos there. After a morning on the bus we did need a biological break.
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Southern Africa road trip part 3
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 10 May 2011
Death Vlei Supper at Sossusvlei camp was Chilli con carne, carrot salad and coleslaw. I got Chilli non carne. Amazing what our guide was able to make on an open fire. She even made an apple crumble one evening.
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Southern Africa road trip part 2
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 8 May 2011
Fish River Canyon. One of the guys on the trip arrived with a cold and was feeling rubbish. We stopped in Springbok to find a pharmacy, but being a Sunday, plus Springbok is a really remote and small place, everything was closed.
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Southern Africa road trip part 1
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 6 May 2011
Our tents on the first night I said in my last post I would write about the road trip I have just done which covered nearly 5000 kilometers and spanned four countries in Southern African.
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5 Awesome Thrill Seeking Things To Do Around The World
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 24 February 2011
Anthony of the Travel Tart writes about five thrill seeking activities that he enjoyed on his travels around the world. He writes about offeat and weird aspects of travel, but also the odd Adventure Travel activity here and there too.5 Awesome Thrill Seeking Things To Do Around The World is a post from: The Planet D: Canada's Adventure Couple
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Stories of flying
Blog: Sophie's World - 29 December 2010
Recently, a friend of mine was on a plane hit by lightning. Seemed scary enough, but the pilot had quickly explained very calmly that it was nothing to worry about....Stories of flying is a post from Sophie's World
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I traveled through Africa…
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 10 May 2010
…and all I got was this lousy tropical disease. I knew I was sick when I came home, but I was hesitant to go to a doctor—I was back in the land of expensive health bills and rampant insurance costs. … Continue reading →I traveled through Africa… is a post from: Nilikuta Shani
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Arrival Cape Town/ Ending the journey of a lifetime
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 12 April 2010
Finally the day came when my Africa Adventure ended—after 6 short weeks (9, including the 3 weeks I spent in Uganda), my overland trip was coming to a rather uneventful close. My face was glued to the window as we … Continue reading →Arrival Cape Town/ Ending the journey of a lifetime is a post from: Nilikuta Shani
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Gilded: Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 5 March 2010
I’d come to the town of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, hoping to experience some of the Real Zimbabwe–the Zimbabwe that I’d heard of from my clients at the human rights NGO and in the news. Victoria Falls, however, was not this; on the contrary I found it highly sterilized and took away the impression that it [...]
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Crossing to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 3 March 2010
As I‘ve mentioned before, the majority of my work at the South African human rights NGO involved rights abuses committed against Zimbabwean refugees living in central Johannesburg. In the course of my work I got to know several of the clients I saw on a regular basis, and would often listen to stories of what [...]
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Oh The Mice I Have Seen
Blog: Where the road goes - 10 February 2010
For your entertainment and at least partly for my nostalgia, I kept a list traveling from Cape Town to Cairo of various interesting statistics. It makes for a colourful two minute retelling of the course of events. Cockroaches seen in hotel rooms: On at least four different occasions. Once occasion provided at least three individuals. Mice seen in [...]
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Traveling Off the Beaten Path/ Watching my bank account bleed dry
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 18 December 2009
I have to confess that I really haven’t really traveled off the beaten path before I began this yearlong adventure. When I was living in England I was able to travel a bit through Europe, but I never considered those trips the sort that required any real forethought—planning in advance consisted of finding my passport [...]
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9 Weeks Through Africa/ The trip of a lifetime? Hope so.
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 15 December 2009
On January 17th, 2010, after spending 3 weeks in Uganda, I get picked up in Nairobi, Kenya, for a 6-week overland trip through Southern Africa—from Kenya, we drive down to Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and finish the journey in Cape Town, South Africa. Epic! I always fancied the idea of traveling extensively through Africa, [...]
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