Aside from the furry, nursing, large and small mammals, we went to Africa to meet and see Africans at home and at work. With varying degrees of success, we did just that between Oct. and Nov. of 2009. Here are the (IMO) best photos of the people we traveled with and the people we encountered. Enjoy!
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- Home sweet home for 3 days – Serengeti – Tanzania Tour Co.
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- Water taxi in the creek – Dubai
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- Our mosque/Islam lecturer from London – 7 yrs a Muslim – Dubai
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- Chiyemi and Terry – Dubai
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- Street scene – Cape Town, South Africa
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- Red line bus tour – Cape Town, South Africa
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- Waterfront entertainment – Cape Town, South Africa
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- Former Robben Island prisoner explains life there
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- Nelson Mandela’s cell – Robben Island, South Africa
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- Benjie before 11km and 6 weeks later in Tanzania- Capetown, South Africa
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- Serving lunch – Glen, Sue, Andy and Netta
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- Bushman plays with scorpion – South Africa
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- First lunch on Benjie – South Africa
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- Birgita and Arnold – Namibia canoe trip
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- Rob and Chris – Namibia canoe trip
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- Franz plays with lizard – Sossus Vlei, Namibia
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- Martina shoots springboks – Namibia campground
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- 23 degrees, 26 minutes south – furtherest south for sun directly overhead
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- Chiyemi boards White Lady campsite transport for elephant hunt
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- Herero woman and children
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- Two kids by the side of the road – Namibia
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- Himba woman and child – Namibia
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- Benji, Will and George Front View
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- Maria and the cheetah
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- Sue and the lovely cheetah – Namibia
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- Val and the cheetah – Namibia
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- Geo. and Rob go after Maria’s beer – Etosha Pan, Namibia
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- AiF Capetown to Victoria Falls Group and AiF Staff – Etosha Pan
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- Guide as Obama Person (son of our poler)
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- Our poler, the oldest guy in Botswana is an Obama person
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- Martina, Maria and poler – Makoros, Botswana
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- Ebron on the booze cruise out of Vic Falls, Zambia
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- Will – Chobe Camp (the campsites from hell)
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- George Handles Passports – Into Zambia
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- Maria’s $70 Nail Job – Snazzy hotel next to – Victoria Falls Camp
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- Maria pack up Sue’s tent – S. Luangwa Park, Zambia
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- Narrow bridge ahead of Benji
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- Kids along the highway
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- Kande Staff & George our “tour leader” are Obama persons, too.
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- All these guys are Obama People! – Kande Beach on Lake Malawi
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- Tea plantation
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- Graham, Sue and Maria in Inside our room – “Farmhouse” bar
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- Dhow cruise – Nungwi, Zanzibar
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- G & T’s – Sue and Terry
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- Dancer – Karatu, Tanzania
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- Dancers with Obama badges – Karatu, Tanzania
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- Chiyemi and our cook and boon fellow, Ebron in Arusha, Tanzania
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- Carol, Maria, Ebron, Sue and Chiyemi – Arusha, Tanzania last dinner
Oregon Budget Traveler 
Seeing all the animals and then the people makes one ponder the connections. Evolution is an awesome thing. In a way it surprises me you would want to go there again, but I have heard that from others who have been to Africa as well; I guess the place must have magical qualities. Bob
Africa is a very big place as you know and northern Africa is Muslim, dry desert, and mountainous. Southern Africa has desert as in Namibia but also vast prairies like the Serengeti, volcanic craters inland river deltas and has a black, Christian or animist religious foundation. Even as I write these broad generalizations, I can see that they don’t capture the essence as no 100 words could do. Morocco is much more uniform culturally than across the south of the continent. No decent wildlife which was more of a kicker than the fact that we revisited the continent.
I’d still happily go back to the south part. I hope the pictures of the north, Morocco can live up to the ones from the south – but they are much, much different.
Great photos. I miss the days of Africa, it really is about the people we meet there to give us some understanding that our lives seem so different but we are all inhabitants of this beautiful planet. Politics has nothing to do with nature and people. I hope more people travel and get it.
Me, too Irene. I’m thinking of ways to get back – it’s relatively expensive travel for us but I’m pretty sure Chiyemi is ready. Surprising in a way – I thought this was a once in a lifetime thing: see the big furry beasts and move on. Maybe, maybe not.