After spending a few days in Brussels and Frankfurt (the Lufthansa hub – about 1 day is all you need in each) we returned to Africa: Morocco! Our Lufthansa flight arrived 2am in Casablanca. We were met by our Odysseys Unlimited Tour rep and driven 1.5 hrs to Rabat, the capital of Morocco, on the… Continue reading Back in Africa: Rabat, Meknes, Volubilis
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Mt. Kenya!
We said goodbye to 6 of our Odysseys Unlimited group with whom we had spent an amazing 2 weeks on game drives in Kenya and Tanzania. Early Thursday morning the remaining 4 of us boarded our jeep with our driver Reuben for the 4 hour drive to Nanyuki, north of Nairobi, in the shadow of… Continue reading Mt. Kenya!
Back to Nairobi
On Tuesday we went for a very early game drive to see what animals might be up before breakfast. At dawn we came upon a pride of lions with 3 or 4 cubs. There were only a few jeeps and everyone kept their distance. Later we saw a few male lions reclining on kopjes (rock… Continue reading Back to Nairobi
Serengeti!
Ngorogoro is an important place that you may never heard of. The famous paleoanthropologic dig site in Olduvai Gorge is located in the Ngorogoro region. The gorge itself was discovered in the early 1900’s and in the early to mid 20th century anthropologic excavations found important artifacts and bones which contributed to the understanding of… Continue reading Serengeti!
Ngorogoro!
Ngorogoro Crater is a volcano that exploded and collapsed inward on itself about 2-3 million years ago. The approximately 19,000 ft peak become a circular rim of 8,000 ft elevation surrounding a flat, grassy plain at 5,900 ft elevation. Thus, technically, it is a caldera but I’ll go with the common nomenclature. The grassy plain and… Continue reading Ngorogoro!
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