East Africa Slideshow
Can’t see the pictures? Try this link. My travels to East Africa were sponsored by Intrepid Travel as part of their “classic journeys” campaign.” Most – but not all – of my expenses were paid for by Intrepid Travel.
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So, How Was Africa?
The Destination: In very brief, Nairobi was overwhelming and surprisingly cold, the Serengeti and the Ngorogoro Crater were so unbelievably awesome I thought my head might explode, and Zanzibar, well, I’m going back there, dammit. I love interesting landscape and I was surprised at how many ecosystems I saw. I saw only a tiny portion …
A Journey in Fever
7:30, Nungwi: I push aside the mosquito nets and haul my aching body to the shower. I’m sticky with sweat and exhausted. I have tossed and turned all night long, trying to fight whatever virus or bacteria has invaded my body, but it’s useless. Feverish and damp, I head to breakfast. There is no choice, …
The Endless Plain
Flatland. From above it’s a table top with dark spills where the water has settled and then, a green splash not exactly in the middle. It’s dust colored, pale gray brown dust, a change from the reddish soil from the higher, greener altitude of the rim. In the crater it’s grassy and there are zebras …