Trip: Africa
There are [9] stories from my trip: Africa
SUDAN | Thursday, 3 Mar 2011 | Photo Gallery
A selection of pictures from my two years as a teacher in the Sudan.
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SUDAN | Tuesday, 1 Mar 2011 | Views [4965] | Comments [3]
In the 1970’s
and 1980’s there existed a scheme for English teachers to go out to The Sudan
to teach in Higher Secondary Schools. Although thousands of young, well
educated British and Irish people took part in the scheme, some of them for
years, ... Read more >
Tags: africa, sudan, teaching
TANZANIA | Wednesday, 10 Nov 2010 | Views [2624]
I first did
an overland truck trip in Africa four years and enjoyed the experience so on my
recent trip to East Africa I decided to do another one, mainly for convenience
and safety concerns but also because on a truck you get a group of readymade
friends ... Read more >
Tags: africa, overland, trucks
TANZANIA | Sunday, 10 Oct 2010 | Photo Gallery
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SOUTH AFRICA | Saturday, 23 Dec 2006 | Views [6284] | Comments [2]
For most of 2006 I have been traveling in South America as a backpacker and had enjoyed how easy it was to travel there. The quality of budget hotels was good and transport was affordable and mainly comfortable. In most cities I went around by ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
TANZANIA | Saturday, 16 Dec 2006 | Views [4181]
Zanzibar , even the name has an exotic ring to it and conjures up images of Sultans, Spices and Slaves. One of the great island ports of the mystic east, ships traded the goods of Africa, the Middle East, and India and out across the Indian Ocean to ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
TANZANIA | Thursday, 7 Dec 2006 | Views [3398]
By chance I caught up with the ATC truck I’d been traveling on when I saw it stopped at lights in Dar es Salaam; I then spent a day with everyone at a beach on Zanzibar. What was surprising was the contrast to the experience I had had and the current ... Read more >
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BOTSWANA | Tuesday, 21 Nov 2006 | Views [10484] | Comments [3]
I had heard several stories from travelers about the overland trucks that do the route from South Africa up to Kenya, and most of them were bad. They seemed to have spent their trip with people who spend most of the time drunk or were just noisy ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
SOUTH AFRICA | Friday, 20 Oct 2006 | Views [6010]
Most Backpackers who travel in South Africa stick pretty much to the coastal route from Cape Town to Jo’berg and totally ignore the interior. But there are some great places to visit just off the coastal route which really reward those who seek them ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
