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Travel Photo of the Day 8/4/2009 Elephant in Kruger National Park

The Travel Photo of the Day for 8/4/2009 is of an Elephant in Kruger National Park and was taken by TheLizardQueen

Photo credit: TheLizardQueen
If you are interested in a safari, Kruger National Park and other areas in South Africa offer terrific trips. Kruger National Park and the surrounding private game reserves feature luxurious game lodges, [...]

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Book Review: In Search of King Solomon’s Mines

Travels through Africa tend to make for fascinating travel narratives because the depths of Africa are usually places that fewer of us get to – and for that reason alone Tahir Shah’s In Search of King Solomon’s Mines: A Quest in Ethiopia is already a great armchair travel story. The premise, too, is a great [...]

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Travel Photo of the Day 7/19/2009 Manda Island

The Travel Photo of the Day for 7/19/2009 is of sunset-in-manda-beach-un punto in movimento53 and was taken by un punto in movimento

Photo credit: un punto in movimento
Manda Island has a number of ports and is located in the African country of Kenya. The ports were vital in the 9th century, as the trade of [...]

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Holidays On The Island of Fire

The seven, Spanish owned Canary Islands are located around 100 miles off the coast of West Africa. Close to the Tropic of Cancer and on a similar line of latitude to the Bahamas and parts of Florida and Mexico. Creating a clement year round climate that has earned the archipelago the epithet of the European [...]

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Wolwedans Namibia – Travel Photo of the Day 3/26/2009

The Travel Photo of the Day for 3/26/2009 is from Wolwedans Namibia and was taken by Rui Ornelas

photo credit: Rui Ornelas
Wolwedans is part of the NamibRand Nature Reserve located in Namibia Africa.

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Kenya Travel Warnings Come Thick and Fast

The eastern African nation of Kenya is the holiday destination for some one million tourists every year, most of them looking for a good combination of time on a warm beach and trips into the countryside on safari, hoping to see some of Africa’s incredible wildlife.
But right now, things are looking shaky for tourism to [...]

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Tunisia: An alternative African destination

While many Europeans know the northern African country of Tunisia as a great place for beach holidays, the wealth of culture and history to be explored here is less well known. Tunisia is a safe nation to visit; it’s small and easy to get around; and it’s full of an incredible variety of places to [...]

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Scuba Dive in Mozambique

Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony, is located along the southeast coast of Africa, along the Indian Ocean. This nation of over 19 million residents stretches from South Africa up to Tanzania in the north. The nation is home to a spectacular coastline, a World Heritage Site, and some of the best diving in the world.

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Explore South Africa’s Tugela Falls

While the Tugela Falls may not be a household name, they should be. At a total height of 3,110 feet (947 meters), these waterfalls in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa are the second highest falls in the world, after the Angel Falls in Venezuela. They are found in the Drakensberg (Dragon’s Mountains) in the [...]

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Visiting Victoria Falls

Africa’s Victoria Falls is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. “Discovered” and named by British explorer David Livingstone between during his journey between 1852 and 1856, the massive falls measures a little over one mile across and over 360 feet high, making it the largest continuous sheet of water in the world.

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