Posts in Category: Africa
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Rabat – Morocco’s Modern Capital
This is my third post on the recently completed Adventures Abroad Quintessential Morocco tour. In the first I gave an overview of the tour and Morocco as a desirable destination. In the second I featured the country’s largest city Casablanca with its amazing Hassan II mosque. In this post I’ll feature the capital city of […]
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Casablanca – Starting out in Morocco
This is my second post from the recently completed Adventures Abroad 15 day Essential Morocco tour, ably guided by Laura Carballo with assistance from George Alexander. The first post was an overview of the trip highlighting the reasons why Morocco is a great destination and why Adventures Abroad is the tour company that you should […]
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Morocco with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I are decompressing at the Eden Andalou resort just outside of Marrakech after a hectic and very exciting 17 day tour of Morocco with Adventures Abroad. As with all our Adventures Abroad trips I will start off with an overview post which I hope will give the reader a fair assessment of whether […]
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The Cape of Good Hope – A Must Do Tour
In my last post I described why Cape Town is Africa’s most beautiful city and how to visit in safety including the Victoria and Arthur waterfront district and fabled Table Mountain. In this post Alison and I will take a day tour to some of the most interesting sights close to Cape Town including the […]
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Cape Town – Africa’s Magical Coastal City
Of all the coastal cities in the world that are famed for their great natural locations, think Rio, Sydney, Athens, San Francisco, Istanbul etc., Cape Town, South Africa might be at the top of the list. It certainly was very high on my list of must see destinations and after having spent three magical days […]
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Botswana – The Final Game Drives
They say that all good things must come to an end and so it is with this being my final post on the fabulous Adventures Abroad trip to Namibia, Victoria Falls and Botswana. In the last post I described how we got from Victoria Falls to the remote Xakanaxa bush camp in the Okavango delta […]
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Okavango Odyssey with Adventures Abroad
Up until about twenty years ago I had never heard of the Okavango delta in northwestern Botswana, but once I learned that it was a truly unique place on earth I knew I had to go there. Recently Alison and I got to fulfill that dream on a solo trip planned just for us by […]
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Chobe River Wildlife – Elephants Everywhere
This is my second post on the Chobe River area that stretches along the Caprivi Strip which separates Namibia from Botswana. The first post featured the Chobe Savanna Lodge which, in my opinion, is quite simply one of the most wonderful places anyone could ever want to stay. This second post will feature the wildlife […]
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Chobe Savanna Lodge – Your Own Private Eden
This is the first of two posts on a recent stay at Chobe Savanna Lodge in Namibia as part of an Adventures Abroad Namibia & Botswana tour that started in Windhoek, Namibia and will end in the small city of Maun, Botswana. This first post will describe how we ended up staying in Namibia at […]