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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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without a problem,
but was now sitting off the coast of France with a broken crankshaft that
could not be repaired. A new crankshaft would have to be manufactured, but
that meant a delay of at least two to three months.
Curnow Shipping, the company charged by the UK Government with operating
the RMS St. Helena, franctically did their best to find and hire an
alternate vessel to ferry islanders and supplies back to St. Helena in time
for Christmas, but the once-yearly sailing to Tristan da Cunha had to be
cancelled, and the replacement ship would not even be calling at Cape Town
until its return back to the UK. Therefore, I decided to do the only thing
I could do: postpone the Islands portion of my trip until next year, and
spend 1999/2000 seeing Africa. Curnow re-booked me for 2000/2001, and I now
had 11 weeks to look around Africa.
The only other setback for the trip was my inability to see Mozambique
(due to the worst flooding there in 50 years at the time I was to visit).
However, I used the extra days to spend more time in South Africa and
Mauritius, and in the end, most everything else went according to plan. It
was quite a trip.
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Dec. 20/21: Los Angeles / Cape Town (South Africa)
The day started early, with me having to wake up at 4:00am to catch a
taxi to LAX. It was just too early to ask anyone to drive me, and taking an
airport shuttle would have meant waking up an hour earlier.
At 5:30am, I found myself at the American Airlines check-in counter.
American had been South African Airways' U.S. partner in 1999 (with Delta
replacing them in January 2000), so the flight routing was LAX to Miami on
American, then Miami to Cape Town on SAA.
With it being so close to Christmas (and a peak travel period),
...
See photographs from:
Botswana Gallery
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Cape Verde Gallery
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Kenya Gallery
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Lesotho Gallery
,
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