Travel Forum / Destinations / Africa / October 2004

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Hi can you tell me if Congo is safe? Is it possible to visit it?
Thanx
           bye  Adriano

We'll be in South Africa for 5 weeks or so next year, I've found some
links to SA ISPs with (It seems) monthly contracts.  Can anyone offer
recommendations or 'don't go nears' ?  Otherwise I'll just use an
electronic pin.

Can you please recommend me a nice beach for a 8 day travel from Europe?
requisites:
- Beautiful beach (white and clean sand, palm trees, transparent water)
- Deluxe hotel / resort (something like hillton or similar) and no more than

We are planning a trip to Africa starting at Cape Town and travelling up to
Kenya on a safari style trip in August/September 2005.
Any tips or advice is greatly accepted as we have not ventured overseas
before and are very unsure on who to travel with.

I'm going with a group of students to Kenya shortly, and have to
prepare for the trip. While Nairobi and Mombasa in th 70's was
perfectly safe, I've heard other rumors now. Can the students (age 19)
be left alone in the two cities at daytime without problems? Or what's

Can anyone tell me about prices from South Af. to any destination in
South Am. ? I mean cheap tickets with any airline.  I'll have a free
tix from my airline next year and i'll fly to South Af. from there i
want to go to South Am. Maybe around February to get the Carnaval in

Could somebody please suggest what the best way to call Africa is? I saw on
http://www.PhoneRateFinder.com  that you can call some African countries for
as low as 6 cents a minute with prepaid phone cards. Has anybody tried it? I
mean I have used that web site for my other phone ...

I had a wonderful trip in Kenya this summer. I had been to most
national reserves, Masai Mara, Sambura, Lake nakura, Amboseli and
Aberdare. I am planning to go to Tanzania next summer. But I wonder
whether I repeat the same trip. Are the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater

Looking through the threads I note we have a Ulysse  and a Ulisse, are
these two  one and the same?
Pat

I live in Italy (Rome) and I'd like to know the flight to Uganda.
I have searched them online but I don't succeed to see them.
Are there any intermediate stops?
thanks

I'd like to see the desert next January. I was thinking about Morocco or
Tunisia.
Does anyone have any suggestion/recomendation?
Thanks in advance,

Anyone have tips on where a single US person might feel comfortable
living permanently in Africa?  I'm thinking somewhere in N. Africa or
Namibia to keep out of the rain, but would like some advice in order to
avoid incurring great expense in 'scoping out the area. Would  like to

Hi there
Booked a holiday for Xmas and New Year to Cape Town.We will be staying
at the Cape Garden Hotel near lions head.  Anyone stayed there?
Any must sees, shopping , prices etc.? Much appreciated.

I would very much like to do the whole african safari thing. But I
have heard it can be dangerous in Africa. Not the wildlife so much,
but the people. What are some of the places to stay away from and what
would be the best places to travel and experience.