by Dian Turner | Jan 25, 2025 | 2025, AFRICA, LATEST POST, TANZANIA
After almost 3 days of travel, we arrived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It was touch and go for a week prior to beginning our adventure due to the riots over political unrest following their the recent election. In fact, there were four of us scheduled to go and Connie...
by Dian Turner | Jan 25, 2025 | 2025, AFRICA, LATEST POST, TANZANIA
Safari Stop #2: Siwandu—Where Tanzania Turns Up the Magic Welcome to Siwandu, tucked inside the lush, lake-dotted Nyerere National Park—formerly the Selous, but now with even more bragging rights. Compared to our last camp, this one was practically a botanical garden....
by Dian Turner | Feb 14, 2023 | 2023, AFRICA, EGYPT, LATEST POST
Arriving in Luxor on a Friday was easy…light traffic. The Muslims take Friday and Saturday as their weekend, with Saturday as their prayer day instead of Sunday. Our hotel, The Hilton was located on the East Bank of the Nile with amazing sunsets. We visited the Karnak...
by Dian Turner | Jul 25, 2019 | 2019, AFRICA, LATEST POST, SOUTH AFRICA
Very interesting trip yesterday from the airport to our boutique hotel, The Peech. The driver was from the Venda tribe, which is better known as the “magic” tribe because they do not use guns or other weapons, they simply beat a tune on a drum and their enemies...
by Dian Turner | Jul 25, 2019 | 2019, AFRICA, LATEST POST, SOUTH AFRICA
Maruleng NU, Limpopo, South Africa…. Not sure how to begin to explain what an amazing four days we’ve just spent admiring the work of Mother Nature. Our short flight South from Johannesburg brought us to the Kruger National Park area. The jeep ride into Kapama’s...
