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Very detailed Africa travelogue with lots of information for anyone planning a trip. Indexed for easy reference. 11 Countries over 3 months.
3 months in Africa -- detailed travelogue, travel tips, indexed
Larry2006-05-27 03:11:54
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/>from Northern California (USA), one of the most obnoxious people you could
ever meet (both to fellow campers as well as locals everywhere we'd go) --
someone that made me ashamed to be a fellow American next to him, and by the
end of the tour, had other campers thinking he might even be on drugs...
Dorte ("DJ"), very nice, in her early 40s from Germany, who works in a
meat-processing plant and speaks excellent English thanks to an American
co-worker... Christian (my tent-mate), late 20s from Germany (Bavaria), a
worker for Deutsche Telecom... newlyweds Katja and Soren (both from the old
East Germany) in their mid-20s, and myself. It was a pretty good group, as
other than Greg, everyone was cool and fun to travel with. Christian, Katja
and Soren couldn't speak English quite so fluently (and the three had also
been on a previous Which Way tour to Namibia together), so initially they
tended to stay to themselves, but as time wore on, with the exception of
Greg, we all became a lot closer. Our two "guides" were a team: Laroux (the
driver) and Carmen (the cook -- it would be her last Which Way tour) were
both in their late 30s, from the Cape Town area, and not too friendly.
After a short pre-trip briefing (and taking a "before" group picture
which I suggested -- to later be compared with a final "after" picture), we
left on our trip. That morning, Carmen told us the intercom-phone between
the truck and cab was broken, so if we needed to stop (such as to go to the
bathroom), to just wave frantically out the window. If the phone was
actually broken or not is anyone's guess, but Carmen ripping it out from its
holster after the first day so we couldn't even try it (and their attitude
towards us) led us all to believe otherwise (if it really was broken, why
the need to rip it out?) The one problem with overland trips such as this
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See photographs from:
Botswana Gallery
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Cape Verde Gallery
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Kenya Gallery
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Lesotho Gallery
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Malawi Gallery
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Mauritius Gallery
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Swaziland Gallery
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Tanzania Gallery
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Zambia Gallery
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Zimbabwe Gallery
I just thought it might be helpful for you to know how i am finding your system.
Thank you
Susan J, 2008-01-28 14:00:20