Author: The Urban Wanderer
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The 3 Day Safari
This post was originally from January 21, 2008 The African saga continues and the last three days have been totally amazing! On Friday we were picked up by our guide and driven a good 3 hours north or so. We unpacked our camping gear and quickly jetted off to a Masai Village. When we got out…
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I am in AFRICA!
This post was originally from January 14, 2008 Hi there Everyone! I can’t believe that I am actually here in Tanzania. Not only will I be volunteering with CCS while I am here, but I have planned to meet my World Vision sponsor child as well. Because of this I have spent the last few months…
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Pre-Africa Jitters
This post was originally from January 7, 2008 As some of you know I am leaving for Tanzania on Friday. I just can’t believe how fast time flies. It seems like yesterday that I was searching for a volunteer organization on line. I will be volunteering with an organization called Cross-Cultural Solutions.Cross-Cultural Solutions It is an…
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Post Travel Blues
When you return home from traveling do you experience the post-travel blues? I sure do! There is so much anticipation that leads up to a trip and when I return home it is like that balloon has popped and I am falling back into reality with a splat! The answer might be obvious as to why coming…
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Africa Stole My Heart
The last few days have been insane. I’ve actually had wifi to send emails, but what I didn’t have was time to write. Our days have had early starts (5:30) and because I knew I only had so little time left with the group I felt like I had to maximize the time left by…
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Elephant Sands
Yesterday we left the delta as dirty pigs and had to get back on the bus for a five hour journey to our next destination. Let me tell you – layers of sun block, bug spray, sweat, dirt and leech water makes a girl feel pretty dang nasty! Scenery on the Kalahari Highway (if you…
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Okavango Delta
This next adventure took us deep into the bush. We had to 4×4 it for about an hour deep into the Okavango Delta. Once we reached the water we were met by a team of locals who were going to take us deeper into the delta. Boats are the traditional mokoro, which is a dug…
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Bushwhacked!
Over the last few days we’ve moved on from Namibia and crossed the border into Botswana. This is where our tour group changes and we start the second leg of the adventure. Because the tour is so long sometimes G Adventures splits it up and we get different people half way through. Most of the group…
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Etosha National Park
On Thursday we left ‘Germany’ and headed north east to Etosha National Game Park. Here we spent two nights camping-but it’s more like glamping. We sleep in a tent but there’s an outdoor kitchen and a shared bathroom for all of us. Literally jackals are everywhere and they kept coming in to our camp. At…
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Am I in Germany?
Our next stop was about a five hour drive to the town of Swakopmund. On the way we stopped at the thriving metropolis of Solitaire…which was just that! Namibia has no people. About 2.5 million in the entire country. Swakopmund is a cute town by the ocean. The Germans settled here years ago and all…
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