Travel Forum / Destinations / Africa / August 2006

Help me choose the color of my carry-on! This will be for my travels
all over the world, from comfortable to rugged situations including a
Safari in Kenya and some travel in Asia.
Go tho the web page:

I am having endless hassles with the newsnet server that I use for
this NG. It is news.megaweb.co.za and I suspect that the guy who
maintains the server really doesn't have much interest in keeping it
running properly. It's often not available for several hours.

DO NOT SEND ANY PERSON MONEY IN GHANA FOR ANY REASON.
Please be advised that there is a major international operation of
theives and criminals working a worldwide scam of gold and romance.
The criminal will claim they will change ownership of gold documents

Please be aware that rape and violent murder is very commonplace in
South Africa.
It saddens my heart but I cannot let people walk into a media
propaganda war that is waged in the tourism sector denying the truth,

Dear Liz, dear Hans-Georg, dear all,
as i promised in my previous message a few months ago on this news
group (I think it was at the beginning of Marsh 2005),let me tell you a
few things about the safari we have made with my wife Carine in Kenya

I have been subscribing to rec.travel.africa for about 10 years now. I
have recently noticed a huge amount of rubbish here that has nothing
to do with travel in Africa.
I've also noticed an enormous immigration into the NG of posters who

Unesco: Languages under threat
Wednesday 22 February 2006, 21:33 Makka Time, 18:33 GMT
In Africa, 80% of oral dialects are in danger of dying out
More than half of the 6000 languages spoken in the world today may

[Reposted with enlarged group list. Please leave rec.travel.air intact,
I can only access replies there.]
I am going to experiment with doing away with checked luggage and try
traveling with just one carry-on. This will be for a few weeks, a few

If you are travelling by air with a film camera, don't forget that now
all airlines require cameras to be in checked luggage, not carried on
board.  It is absolutely essential to have the film (and the camera
containing film) in a lead pouch.  Otherwise, many strong x-rays used

My husband and I are looking at going to Kenya to visit a friend a
Christmas. While there we are looking at doing a safari and I have found
online a company called Absolute Africa. They are incredibly reasonable in
their prices. Has anyone ever used this company? Are they too ...

it was non essential, but I flew anyway
Accra is a polluted mess although there are some quiet parts to get
away from the mayhem.
The Zoo was not as bad as I thought, and the National museum was worth

I hope you will enjoy:
the Kenyan village Shanzu and the Belgian village Bavegem:
http://home.scarlet.be/kenya-belgium/list_01/kenyan_shanzu_belgian_bavegem.html
a Kenyan Woman with Child and a Belgian Man:

Just thought I'd let everyone know: IT'S SNOWING IN JOHANNESBURG!!!
Well, it's not REALLY snow, more like a light flurry, but this is
momentous for us. We're all (sort of) praying for a reasonable snow
fall.

In the mid-September I will be in Cape Town for a meeting and then plan
to fly to Johannesburg and see Kruger park. I almost never travel with
a group, but this time I will have only 3 or 4 days and probably will
need a tour. I'd appreciate a recommendation on a tour operator which

To anyone who has been in the Mali, Burkina, Niger part of West Africa
lately, can you help with these questions:
1. Is there any moderately comfortable ground transportation between
Bamako and Ouaga, or between Ouaga and Niamey?  By 'moderately