Africa

there aew different parts of africa i went to egypt this is a part of africa i change plane 4 times when i looked down i only saw water as far as you could see,it took me 22 hours to get to africa.i stayed there 30 days and got to spend the night in cairo a very interesting trip.welome to mylot and merry christmas

They say Africa stays in the heart once you have been and it is so true. After 4 years I still remember the day we arrived in Johannesburg. Travelling through the suberbs seeing high fences and gates with high security on every house. It was quite scary at first. We went on a overland tour with Acacia Africa Tours. They took us from Joburg up to Namibia where we saw all animals in the wild from Lions, zebras, giraffe, hippos, elephants and so many more to list. You can't describe the first time you see these animals in the wild it takes your breath away to see them. From Namibia we went over to Botswana, Zimbabwe and back down to Cape Town. The whole experience was something we would do tomorrow at the drop of a hat, if it wasn't for having children now.. But we know our children will grow up one day giving us the chance to go back and do it all again.

I went to Tunisia when I was a teenager. I really liked liked it there. The local people were quite poor and I felt some of the hotel staff worked incredibly hard for little money. I went to Kenya in my twenties and it was amazing the go on a safari and spend time on the palm fringed beaches. It was fascinating to meet the Masai Mara tribe. I went to the Seychelles in my thirties and I really loved seeing the stunning looking white sandy beaches with palm trees. Next month I am going to Cape Town and I am so very much looking forward to that. I hope that you will get to do some volunteer work with an orphanage in Africa.

Yes I have been to Africa. As a matter of fact, I am from West Africa. But I haven't always lived in my home country. Half my life I lived in the UK and US as a student. There were two significant trips to Africa that I made while I was studying in the UK and US that made me hungry to go back to live and work in my home country. The first opportunity came when I was in secondary school. A team of about 18 students from my school were able to go to Namibia as part of World Challenge Expedition. We planned the journey for more than a year, organizing fund raising events (bake sales, fashion shows, etc) to raise money for the back-packing trip. The actual trip took 1 month and involved taking part in major tourist activities in the country (including viewing wildlife in major national parks; driving quad bikes across the sand dunes near Swakupmund; and hiking for 5 days in Fish River Canyon on the border with South Africa) and working with a local school in the north of the country (teaching the kids in various subjects, developing relationships with the students and delivering books, clothes and other materials that was donated during our year of preparation). We stayed in tents or backpackers' lodges much of the time. This was a trip of a lifetime, designed to get particpating young people to take responsibility for a worthwhile project and to learn to work together. I would recommend a trip to Nambia if you get the chance. Another place I would recommend for orphanage work is Kenya. I was priviledged (thanks to some scholarships and kind donors from family and my church) to go there while I was in univeristy. Again, I went with a team of about 15 students - students from different universities and of different nationalities. We worked for a month with an organization that takes children off the streets and cares for them through secondary school and even beyond (in terms of helping them to get to university or to set up micro businesses). We got to do a little wilflife viewing and also spent a weekend in a local village, seeing what a local church was doing to make a difference. One thing I loved about the trip was the bonding among the students I went with. This was a life changing trip! Like I said earlier, these two trips got me even more hungry to return to my home country in due time to make my mark there. My friend, I think it's great that you want to do volunteer work. I really hope things work out for you in this regard.