Home from Africa
I've arrived back in the land of Oz!
Back from the home of Lions and Zebras, back from the never ending grassplains, huge inland wetlands and skyscraping sand dunes, back from the amazing variety of people, languages and cultures.
Lets just take it as a given that I had a really ROCKING holiday and I highly recommend anyone who is interested in Africa to not let all the bad media we hear put you off. The people I met were very friendly, the crime is misrepresented to tourists (I'm sure there is crime, but I think it is not as much of a threat to tourists as our media make out, and I certainly never felt scared) and things you get to see are out of this world.
My number one pick out of the counties I visited (Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa) is Namibia. Namibia has well maintained roads and facilities (it was colonized by the Germans who I think set out much of the road system) amazing national parks - with a full display of animals (maybe with the exception of buffalo in Etosha) an a spectacular array of different landscapes (inland salt flats, cold sand sea shores, miles of white sanddunes, towering red sanddunes, forbidding canyons and green vineyards.
Red Sand Dune in Namibia
(To give you an idea of perspective, the trees at the bottom of the dune are full sized trees that our truck could park under).
Back from the home of Lions and Zebras, back from the never ending grassplains, huge inland wetlands and skyscraping sand dunes, back from the amazing variety of people, languages and cultures.
Lets just take it as a given that I had a really ROCKING holiday and I highly recommend anyone who is interested in Africa to not let all the bad media we hear put you off. The people I met were very friendly, the crime is misrepresented to tourists (I'm sure there is crime, but I think it is not as much of a threat to tourists as our media make out, and I certainly never felt scared) and things you get to see are out of this world.
My number one pick out of the counties I visited (Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa) is Namibia. Namibia has well maintained roads and facilities (it was colonized by the Germans who I think set out much of the road system) amazing national parks - with a full display of animals (maybe with the exception of buffalo in Etosha) an a spectacular array of different landscapes (inland salt flats, cold sand sea shores, miles of white sanddunes, towering red sanddunes, forbidding canyons and green vineyards.
Red Sand Dune in Namibia
(To give you an idea of perspective, the trees at the bottom of the dune are full sized trees that our truck could park under).