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Starving children in Africa :D

  • Posted on August 27, 2011 at 5:08 am

Haahha! Just watch how I wipe out matthew.. with some obnoxious laughing :P

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“Where the wild things are ” Hdh’s photos around Lower Sabie, Kruger National Park, South Africa

  • Posted on August 26, 2011 at 4:19 pm

Preview of Hdh’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Lower Sabie, Kruger National Park, South Africa Entry Title: “Where the wild things are …” Entry: “It’s not a comfortable looking country, South Africa, with its razor wire, thorny acacias, fields of bristling wheat stubble, gray-black fire scarred earth and dusty poverty. Driving out of Johannesburg (parts affluent suburbs crouching behind “[Insert security firm] Armed Response” signs and parts derelict war zones) we brushed the edges of the cardboard shanty towns with their tiny, tidy “streets”, overhung with a lethal spaghetti of electric cables. We were heading for Kruger National Park – a national treasure that South Africans are justifiably proud of. We had three days. We loved it so much we returned weeks later for a week’s “holiday” before throwing ourselves into India. The 500km drive to Crocodile Bridge Gate takes you from rolling tundra dotted with power plants and open cast mines to hills snugly fitted with a crocheted tea-cosy of hardy-leaf shrubs. Just before the park it’s back to scrappy grasslands and roadsides dotted with wicker bedside tables, welded guinea fowl, gum drop bean bags for sale and folks waiting hopefully for a lift (not hitch-hiking as such, just loitering on the understanding that someone will pick them up, sooner or later). Once inside the park you must be …

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Tri Cycling Africa trailer

  • Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:56 am

New episodes at the Tri Cycling Africa channel!: www.youtube.com Australian Project Manager Jeff McLean was so annoyed with the current western perception of muslims that he and his one cameraman rode a tandem recumbent tricycle through five countries in West Africa. For two months and 1000 kms they pedalled hot dusty roads and often found warm welcomes, great character and selfless generosity. With no real plan, tents or sleeping bags, Jeff finds an honest side of Africa that is rarely seen. But there are frustrations; breakdowns, language barriers, exhaustion, and theft leaving them stranded and desperate. Africa is often seen as either a place of poverty and corruption or of exotic wildlife – Tri Cycling Africa reveal the opposite in both cases. While touching on the poverty and desperation of the locals, it also shows a hardy, happy, diverse population in a hard but spectacular land and a noble and generous race of people. Visit www.TriCyclingAfrica.com for more info.

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Handbags South Africa GYPSEY LOU South Africa Handbags & Accessories

  • Posted on August 1, 2011 at 2:35 pm

Louise – Gypsey Lou – Handbags & Accessories – itunes.apple.com Louise Leggatt – SA Fashion Designer, Singer & Songwriter. GypseyLou Handbags and Accessories – Handmade in South Africa. www.gypseylou.co.za. Find Louise’s songs recorded with SA bands Rubber Soul, NorwayGirl & Beetles&Butterflys @ iTunes.com and other online music stores. For SA downloads: rhythmmusicstore.com

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Platies – the Original from South Africa

  • Posted on July 27, 2011 at 3:43 pm

Platies Handbags! Design Handbags from South Africa! Produced in Cape Town – Home all over the world! For more infos check platies.net Music by Shaggy – Fly High

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“Getting Close to Nature” Indianajill’s photos around Balule Private Game Reserve, South Africa

  • Posted on July 23, 2011 at 2:52 pm

Preview of Indianajill’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Balule Private Game Reserve, South Africa Entry Title: “Getting Close to Nature” Entry: “We have been in Africa for many days now, but mostly in remote areas with no access to Internet, and in many areas with no electricity. I will endeavor to catch you up with our journey. We had our first night in Africa in Joberg at the Drifters Inn Lodge, run by a lovely lady, her dogs and a parrot that rides on her shoulder. It is a nice old house with a lovely yard. The rooms are small but we have our own bathroom, something that will soon become a luxury. After having our tour and dinner with Nel we had time for a brief nap, then met the rest of our group, and then finally our guide. We are very happy that many on this trip are close to our age.. We are a large group, 19 in all. Most are from Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Ontario and one couple from England. Our guide is a young South African of dutch decent, his name is Wilco, and he will be with us for the duration of the trip. We will soon find him to be a most capable guide, driver, cook and all round great guy. We are touring in a large 4×4 truck, which will soon become our home on wheels, as we will be covering more miles then I expected. The truck is equipped with lockers for our large duffel bags, comfortable seating, excellent viewing …

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“I bless the rains down in Africa” Spoonball’s photos around Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

  • Posted on February 21, 2011 at 11:11 pm

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Serengeti National Park, Tanzania by TravelPod blogger Spoonball titled “I bless the rains down in Africa” Spoonball’s travel blog entry: “DAY SIX (Wednesday, September 9, 2009) Ain’t no way to hide your LION eyes. Today was our sleep-in day. No need to depart until 9 am. However, today we departed our luggage as well. We were limited to our Tauck duffel bags for the next two nights. We will have a reunion with our luggage in Arusha when we transfer to Kenya on Friday. Our traveling companions today were Stephanie Foote and Carol Sobol of Denver; our guide was Assand. First up as we left Ngorongoro was a Big Sky Montana view of the Serengeti Plain. And appropriately enough, our first encounter was with giraffes, which is the animal I normally associate with the area. It turns out the giraffe is the national symbol of Tanzania, because it can’t back up, it can only go forward. Tanzania officials loved the symbolism, AND the fact that the giraffe is the most peaceful animal in the plains. Next was a long and very bumpy ride out of Ngorongoro where the roads are pitiful and into the Serengeti where at least they are graded. We arrived late morning at Olduvai Gorge (see description on Day Five). FYI, a gorge is the same as a canyon, only not as deep. We had a lecture on the archeological significance of the gorge and the anthropologists who have made history there. We headed to Nobi Hill rest area where we did, in fact …

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Eritrea North Korea of Africa 2

  • Posted on February 21, 2011 at 7:22 pm

In a rare interview, Eritrea’s president Isaias Afwerki says his country doesn’t need elections. Eritrea: Africa’s version of North Korea By Shashank Bengali | McClatchy Newspapers from the November 10, 2009 edition Asmara, Eritrea – In this lonely corner of the world, the first sign of distress is the luggage. When one of the few international flights that are still operating here touched down one recent afternoon, the returning passengers emerged from baggage claim as if from a big shopping trip. Old metal trolleys squealed under the weight of mundane items: tires, a laptop computer, tubs of detergent and duffel bags crammed so tightly with food that tin cans bulged through the fabric. The needs are acute in Eritrea, a narrow shard of sand and rock along the Red Sea that’s presided over by one of Africa’s most secretive regimes. As its quixotic experiment in economic self-reliance falters, the Ohio-sized country of 5 million has slipped into its deepest political isolation in its 16 years of independence. The United States and others accuse President Isaias Afwerki of funneling arms and money to Islamist insurgents in Somalia and have threatened to slap him with sanctions. Analysts say Isaias is bent on wresting influence from Ethiopia — Eritrea’s large southern neighbor and adversary in a 30-year liberation struggle — and is backing several rebel groups across the chaotic Horn of Africa. In recent years, Isaias has seized UN World Food Program stockpiles and expelled …

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Eritrea North Korea of Africa

  • Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:25 pm

In a rare interview, Eritrea’s president Isaias Afwerki says his country doesn’t need elections. Eritrea: Africa’s version of North Korea By Shashank Bengali | McClatchy Newspapers from the November 10, 2009 edition Asmara, Eritrea – In this lonely corner of the world, the first sign of distress is the luggage. When one of the few international flights that are still operating here touched down one recent afternoon, the returning passengers emerged from baggage claim as if from a big shopping trip. Old metal trolleys squealed under the weight of mundane items: tires, a laptop computer, tubs of detergent and duffel bags crammed so tightly with food that tin cans bulged through the fabric. The needs are acute in Eritrea, a narrow shard of sand and rock along the Red Sea that’s presided over by one of Africa’s most secretive regimes. As its quixotic experiment in economic self-reliance falters, the Ohio-sized country of 5 million has slipped into its deepest political isolation in its 16 years of independence. The United States and others accuse President Isaias Afwerki of funneling arms and money to Islamist insurgents in Somalia and have threatened to slap him with sanctions. Analysts say Isaias is bent on wresting influence from Ethiopia — Eritrea’s large southern neighbor and adversary in a 30-year liberation struggle — and is backing several rebel groups across the chaotic Horn of Africa. In recent years, Isaias has seized UN World Food Program stockpiles and expelled …

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