Posts in Category: Africa
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Damaraland Desert Elephant Safari
The journey continues for our intrepid group of Adventures Abroad explorers as we brave the 40°C (104°F) temperatures of the Namib Desert and Damaraland areas of Namibia in search of the flora and fauna that can survive in these conditions. We have just come from visiting the fabulous rock carvings at the UNESCO World Heritage Site […]
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Twyfelfontein – Nambia’s First World Heritage Site
This is my fifth post from a recent trip to Namibia with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad and will feature the prehistoric rock carvings at Twyfelfontein in the Damaraland region of that country. But first we need to get there from the Skeleton Coast where we have spent the last two days in the very unAfricanlike […]
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Swakopmund – Namibia’s German City
It’s moving day on Adventures Abroad’s tour of Namibia. We are relocating from the sweltering heat of the Namib Desert where we have spent the last two days exploring the amazing sights at Sossusvlei to the cold and foggy Skeleton Coast. Our destination is the small city of Swakopmund which I am told resembles more a place […]
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Sossusvlei – Namibia’s Wondrous Sand Dunes
Having just returned from a 12-day trip through Namibia with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad, I can say without hesitancy that the visit to some of the world’s largest sand dunes at Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert was one of the highlights of the trip. For someone who left a Canadian winter with temperatures dipping below […]
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Namibia – Exploring It With Adventures Abroad
Alison and I just completed a twelve-day tour exploring Namibia with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad with whom we have traveled many times. Originally Namibia was not high on our travel priority list. Our first trip in 2019 was supposed to be to Southeast Asia, but Alison’s work commitments changed and we had to alter our […]
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Namibia Independence Museum – See it First
Almost every visitor to Namibia starts by touching down in Windhoek, the modern and clean capitol of this amazing country. Windhoek is not per se a tourist destination, but it does have a couple of attractions that will foster your understanding of Namibian history and culture and make your journey through the country more fulfilling. Foremost […]
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Hatshepsut and Her Temple at Luxor
This will be my final post on the fantastic trip Alison and I took to Egypt last February with Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad. You can find another dozen on this website including visits to the Pyramids and the Temple of Karnak. The west bank of the Nile across from the city of Luxor contains […]
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Alexandria, Egypt – An Unforgettable Day Trip
It’s a cool, rainy day in August and I’m sitting in front of my computer looking at a piece of greenish sedimentary rock that may or may not be a piece of Cleopatra’s palace. I picked it up on the cobble beach of Alexandria’s waterfront not far from the site where the legendary palace is […]
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Valley of the Kings – Prepare to Be Amazed
This is my fourth post on the many, many important Egyptian sites in an around the city of Luxor and I’ve hardly scratched the surface. So far our Adventures Abroad group has been confined to the east bank of the Nile and the city of Luxor proper where we’ve visited the Temple of Luxor and the temple […]