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May 31, 2002Diamonds And PlasticOn the way back to Maun Botswana in the Safari truck, Rod explains that the area around Maun is in the fastest growing area in the southern hemisphere because...Read this update May 29, 2002Okavango Delta By MakoroThe Makoro Trip through the Delta By the time the 1300 km long Okavango, southern Africa’s third largest river, enters Botswana from Angola, through the Caprivi Strip in Namibia, it...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 29, 2002 05:01 AM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Best Places, Boats, Botswana, Excursions, Food, Language AIDS & The Ocavango DeltaWed May 29-30 , 2002 Can’t stop in Maun to check email because nothing opens until 10am. Gary takes us into the Delta on his Safari wagon with two...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 29, 2002 04:59 AM
TrackBack | Category: Botswana, Culture, Excursions May 28, 2002Maun & Sitatunga CampTues May 28,2002 To Sitatunga Camp near Maun Botswana Up at 5:30 again. Had wieners, eggy bread (French Bread) with honey and canned spaghetti for breakfast. James is doing...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 28, 2002 04:52 AM
TrackBack | Category: Botswana, Culture, Worst Experiences May 27, 2002Buffalo Fence & Planet BaobabMay 27, 2002 We see the 3000km of 1.5 meter high “Buffalo Fence” along side the road on the way to Okavango Delta in Botswana. It’s actually a series...Read this update May 25, 2002Chobe National ParkThe border crossing from Zambia into Botswana is at the border post of Kazungula. The truck ride on the Kazungula Ferry across the Zambezi River is not much of...Read this update Victoria Falls CampSun May 25, 2002 Up at 5:30 for the sunrise micro-light (motorcycle with wings) ride to view the falls and the geologic formation left by them over thousands of...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 25, 2002 04:28 AM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Boats, Climbs & Walks, Excursions, Food, Zambia May 24, 2002Pioneer Camp in LusakaWe pull into camp outside Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. We listen to CNN...TV for the first time in weeks and hear yet another warning about terrorism in NYC...funny-Josh...Read this update May 22, 2002New Words In LusakaIn Australia, New Zealand and South Africa your car “hoots” not honks. Hoot, I tell them, is what an owl does! Rod says Geese "honk" and cars "hoot!" We...Read this update May 21, 2002To Lusaka ZambiaTues May 21-22, 2002 Long Drive to Lusaka the capitol of Zambia Up at 5 am again and on the truck by 6:30. Take the whole day just to...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 21, 2002 10:24 PM
TrackBack | Category: Politics, Touching Experiences, Zambia May 20, 2002Yellow Chicken CampMay 20, 2002 Then to Yellow Chicken Campsite and dinner in the dark. The charming camp, in the middle of a huge 40 year-old German farm, is run by...Read this update Zambia Border2002 Rod warns us the roads in Zambia are even worse “shit” than in Malawi-which we found hard to believe but he was right. Most of these roads we...Read this update On The Road To ZambiaMay 20, 2002 Up 5 am and out 6:30. Most of the day is spent traveling to Zambia. A bridge is out on the road south so we have...Read this update May 19, 2002Time, Walking, WomenTime, Walking, Women, Waiting, Matatus and Plastic In Africa these things work together in a synchronous whole. Rattle-trap matatus-minibuses that serve as public transportation-all seats and the space in between...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 19, 2002 09:45 PM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Culture, Malawi, Reflections Malawi Village WalkSun May 19th 2002 Village Walk Africa does not really exist. Africa is a geographical name for a continent. Africa is made up of countries but people, especially in...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 19, 2002 09:29 PM
TrackBack | Category: Climbs & Walks, Culture, Excursions, Malawi May 18, 2002Dinner & Dancing On A MatThat night Rod has arranged for us to have dinner at the home of a local family. We each take a bowl and spoon from the truck and are...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 18, 2002 09:39 PM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Excursions, Food, Malawi, Touching Experiences Cross Dressing At Kande CampSat 18th 2002 Town of Mzuza We get off the bus and go to the market in Mzuza to buy clothes for the Cross Dressing Party at Kande Camp-we...Read this update May 17, 2002Chitimba Beach CampWhen we pull into the camp compound there are three trucks aready there-drifters.com, ontheaway.com, and Africa.overland.com written in huge letters across the sides.The camp bars in Africa are open-air...Read this update Slave Trade At Malawi LakeWe are headed to Malawi Lake which is huge-of Malawi’s 118,000 sq km 20% is taken up by the long narrow lake which nearly runs approximately 500km down the...Read this update Muzungu At The Malawi BorderWe stop at a small town for supplies and “toilet stop” near the Malawi border and to spend the rest of our Tanzania shillings...scores of young boys in dirty...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 17, 2002 07:23 PM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Malawi, Names For Foreigners May 15, 2002To MalawiMay 15th 2002 Jambo! (Swahili for Hello!) Back On The Road-Tanzania South to Malawi We were up at 4:30-no breaky (Australian, English, New Zealander and South African for breakfast)...Read this update Pleasuring In ZanzibarWe spent evenings on the deck of the Mercury Bar watching the sun set over the Indian Ocean full of fishing boats and beautiful lean bodies swimming in the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 15, 2002 07:05 PM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Hostels & Guesthouses, Restaurants, Zanzibar Tanzanian NewsPicked up a Sunday Observer-local Tanzanian paper in English; lead article: “Reading culture badly lacking” lamented the lack of interest in reading and warning that Tanzania could become isolated...Read this update Zanzibari FeastingZanzibar's native cuisine brazenly drenches seafood in local aromatic spices. At night, locals gather at Forodhani Gardens, a strip of park on the waterfront right outside the House of...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 15, 2002 06:56 PM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Food, Restaurants, Zanzibar Poli Poli In TanzaniaTanzania Walking around Poli Poli means “slowly, slowly” in Swahili. That is how we are learning to do everything like the others here in this hot humid equatorial country....Read this update Beach Boys In ZanzibarBeach Boy Answer to Poverty Beach Boys are a pain in the arse. They don’t want to work because they can get more money wearing flip-flops. smoking hash and...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 15, 2002 06:42 PM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Travel Tips, Zanzibar Zanzibar's HistoryAfter Independence from Britain in 1963, Dr. Julius Nyerere was Tanzania’s beloved president for nearly 30 years until his death in 1999. The cornerstone of his policies were based...Read this update Stone Town ZanzibarMay 11-15 2002 City of Stone Town Island of Zanzibar The tropical island of Zanzibar has a more cosmopolitan and warm and open ambiance than other African countries we...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 15, 2002 06:29 PM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Boats, History, Zanzibar Dalla-Dallas In ZanzibarTransportation Outlying areas can be reached by taking little numbered pick-ups called dalla-dallas across from the Darajani Market that charge about 30 cents and like the matatus (multicolored buses)...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 15, 2002 07:43 AM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Zanzibar May 14, 2002Overland To Dar es SalaamVirtually no cars on the road; only trucks and buses and a few vans. The people seem like they don't see many overlanders; some-mostly women and little children wave-sometimes...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 14, 2002 06:18 PM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Hostels & Guesthouses, Music, Tanzania May 11, 2002Back To Snake ParkThe next morning, on the road back to the Snake Park there are small villages and shops; give me pen; give me something; what do you have to give me...the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 11, 2002 06:02 PM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Expats, Tanzania May 10, 2002Ngorongora CraterThe Ngorangora Crater is a conservation area and National Heritage Site. After breaking camp in the Sarangeti, we drive another two hours up to the Crater rim where we...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 10, 2002 05:56 PM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Excursions, Funniest Experiences, National Parks, Tanzania, UNESCO World Heritage Sites May 09, 2002Animal Spotting The Big 5I love the remnants of the Swahili cadence in Victor's English. Giraffe: "It is raining and he is very happy there-he is getting a shower." Bob watching elephants: "This makes...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 9, 2002 05:43 PM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Minority Groups, Tanzania, Touching Experiences May 08, 2002Sarangeti SafariThere are about 5 people to a car besides the driver. The tops of the vehicles pop up so you can stand up and view the animals and take pictures....Read this update Merani Snake ParkThe second night we stayed at the Merani Snake Park near Arusha Tanzania. We showered and headed to the park bar for a drink and to plug in the electronic...Read this update Maasai Warrior TribeBeautiful tall Masaii men and women still maintain their tribal lifestyle and religion-wearing red to keep the lions away from their cows. They live in southern Kenya and northern...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 8, 2002 02:32 PM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Excursions, Minority Groups, Tanzania May 07, 2002To the SarangetiA week before picking Bob and me and another 3 people up in Nairobi, the WorldWide Adventure Company had taken about 15 others across the Masi Mara into Rwanda...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 7, 2002 05:06 PM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Funniest Experiences, Tanzania May 06, 2002ArushaIn Arusha the truck parked for an hour outside an internet cafe so we all climbed down the five-step vertical ladder to a hundred outstretched hands. Saw a westerner (Brit)...Read this update Nairobi to Capetown OverlandMay 5, 2002 We left for the 4000 mile seven week trip in a Mercedes Benz truck overland from Nairobi to Capetown. As Bob suspected there would be, there...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 6, 2002 05:00 PM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Best Places, Botswana, Excursions, Food, Kenya, Language, Malawi, Namibia, Seven Must See, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia Terrorism in KenyaThe U.S. embassy in Nairobi was bombed a few years ago. The U.S. was going to rebuild across town, a merchant said, but now the location is being moved again....Read this update Danger in NairobiWe were advised to go nowhere in Nairobi on foot at night. The downtown area is poorly lit and muggings are common. When Bob was here six years ago his...Read this update May 05, 2002Discovering African IssuesOne evening we had coffee in the Hilton coffee shop and just hung around watching the people come and go. There was an international UN conference on urban planning so...Read this update May 02, 2002Street Children in NairobiThe next morning we went out to explore on foot and spent the entire morning dodging begging children. I am an older grandma figure so I get "mama, buy me...Read this update May 01, 2002Nairobi...First ImpressionsOn April 30, 2002, the plane from Cairo landed in Nairobi Kenya to music from "Out of Africa" (groan) and a horrific monsoon-season rainstorm. A taxi ride to the downtown...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on May 1, 2002 04:38 PM
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