Well, I am down in the SW corner of Kenya, Kericho. This is a camping safari, we set up our own tents nightly but do have a camp cook. We went from Nairobi up to Naguru then back to Lake Nakuru national park then to the Masai Mara national reserve. I’ve seen all types of antelope and gazelles, lions, wildbeasts, cheetahs (including on a kill), giraffes, elephants rhinos, etc. It is quite interesting and I’m having fun.
What a basic trip, cold showers, bathrooms that barely fit our description, good food, travel in a large safari truck, what a different country.
Tomorrow we go into Tanzania for the last week of this trip with our first night on the shore of lake victoria.
Having a good time with our group, mostly auzzies. Did a tea plantation tour today.
Hopefully find a better connection soon or else may not post until the 15.
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just no way to say it all. Trains planes and automobiles and boats and livestock, what a way to travel. By the way, lights while driving here are optional, headlights and signal lights. Crossing streets is an art. Lanes are optional.
I am in Alexandria for those who care. This is a very arabic area but there is enough english around for me to survive. I’m actually quite pleased with my arabic and get complemented on it. If there is a media report of Hogan in Egypt it wasn’t me.
I don’t know if you heard but there was a bomb in Cairo last night not too far from where we were having supper but I never saw anything, security went up a notch though.
I’m liking the buying of supper while the seafood is still moving, they give you too much food.
Great view of the mediteranean out of my hotel window right across the street.
Take care all, moi
So, yesterday was a waste day in Dahab, a resort town on the gulf of Aqaba.
Just walked around, drank beer (except for the place that wasn’t open because he wasn’t awake yet).
Our group is hanging out together quite well, we ususally do meals together. The food is not extraordinary but good, here there is a lot of sea food. You order by weight before it is cleaned.
Dahab must be a divers/snorkel center as there is a lot of it here. The coast goes out about 30m shallow, 0.6m, then drops right off and those that have snorkeled say there are lots of fish and coral to be seen.
Today on to Cairo and split off this group to head for Alexandria tomorrow. Take care all.
Sorry about the long gap; we’ve been busy getting from there to here, as tends to happen when your main mode of transportation is on a schedule. “There” in this case was the lovely oceanside town of Calvi, and “Here” is, well, you can see:
Something I took away from the Mediterranean Sea is a sense that, amazingly, the tourism advertisements and stories I’ve read about the place really do not do the sea justice. I’m accustomed to an ocean that is dark, cold, and remote; a beauty that can really only be appreciated in the sense that a predator’s grace is admirable. The Mediterranean is different. It’s blue in a thousand shades, all of them gem-like. Each isolated cove brings something new.
We saw three firefighting seaplanes, doing water drills. That was special. We were treated to a flyby by some kind of French military fighter jet, which blew past overhead as we picked our way up to a lighthouse on a rocky promontory. We ate haute cuisine at a dockside bar, and dangled our feet over the edge of the pier, watching hundreds of black fish in the deep, clear blue waters just beside a massive ferry.
And now, Avignon.
There is a palace here, one of the finest examples of a Gothic citadel in Europe, still largely intact, and it is huge. Only pictures can do it justice, but the computer at our hotel — from which I post this — cannot recognize our camera, and therefore I cannot show you these pictures. I’ll probably come back and attach them to this post later, so keep an eye on it.
The food is amazing, the hotel is the nicest we’ve had so far, and the people all seem very friendly. Interestingly, I’ve heard more english in Avignon in one day than in the rest of our trip put together. It seems that this place is a very popular tourist destination, and once I have the pictures up, you’ll see why.
I can’t really add a lot more without those, so I’ll leave off here.
Well, it’s Paris.
Time is tight (I prepaid for 15 minutes in an internet cafe) so I won’t go into excessive detail here, but it’s pretty nice so far. Expect Char to get detailed to a degree I can’t hope to match, but here’s a scattering of impressions:
I’m insecure about my french, which should not be surprising. I do okay, but the sewer tour pretty much flew over my head, whilst Char followed along pretty well. I’m not bitter, but I wish I’d gotten more out of it.
The food is every bit as good as rumour and legend have it.
We hit Paris in time to catch a well-regarded outdoor market, which provided us with rabbit, cheese, and pain italienne for breakfast. Mmm.
The weather has been windy and humid. The Eiffel tower was high and crowded (and windy!) and a bit too vertiginous for Char.
Tomorrow, we’re going to try for the catacombs, I hope. The Louvre is still on my list.
That’s all I’ve got for now.
Date: 06/05/2006
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