Africa
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You may have read the article in the New Republic last month about how 300,000 ancient books and manuscripts in the libraries of Timbuktu were evacuated in secret to protect them from Ansar Dine, an Al Qaeda cell. The manuscripts not only survived the burning of the Timbuktu library, but were smuggled in footlockers all…
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So we’ve been consistently on the road for the last couple days and we’re now settled in Cape Town. I’ll give a brief account of what happened in the past two days.
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So New Year’s was a blast. We had a slow evening. We went to the shopping mall and bought smoked game, potatoes, vegetables and spices, went back to the room and cooked a New Year’s feast for dinner. We had a kitchen area in our room which we used–and abused. When we were done there…
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When I had finished writing the last update Ioana and I left the internet cafe and Codrin was gone. He said he was going to the shop next door but he wasn’t there, so we wandered around a bit looking for him and then went off to the cafe for another drink. It turns out Codrin…
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Our second night in Walvis Bay we ate at Raft, the same restaurant on the bay we had eaten at the night before. We were served by the same waitress, Claire, and petted the same Norwegian Ridgeback, Motley, who moseys around the restaurant with a card on his neck telling patrons not to feed him.…
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We spent our last day in Windhoek not doing much. We slept in til 9 and then planned out our last couple days. The original plan was to do another safari from Windhoek, but it turns out that a lot of the desert is better seen from Walvis Bay, the first European trading town on the west coast (about an hour…
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Today I woke up at 7 to get on the internet and send yesterday’s post. The internet is very very slow and it took a couple attempts. The Jollyboys is right in the center of town and its convenient to get anywhere. I got back around 9 and we prepared for our excursion to Victoria Falls.The bus…
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The Okavango Delta is a 18,000 km squared delta spread between Botswana, Namibia and Angola and is a hotbed of ecological activity. The delta is so vast that it takes thousands of years for water to circulate within it. Since we had only three days, we decided to tackle the delta in two steps. First, we decided to…
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