Phone number in South Africa

Well we have been in South Africa for about 7 days and it is an amazing country. We are actually in Swaziland now but will be returning to south africa tomorrow night. We have already gone on a couple of safaris and seen some amazing animals. The most amazing so far has been in Kruger national park. We were going along the trail and all of a sudden we were surounded by a herd of giraffes and a herd of Zebras. they were no farther than ten feet away. Absolutely magical. The internet is really expensive here in Swaziland but hopefully in St. Lucia (or next destination back in South Africa) it will be cheaper. If anyone would like to call our number is (0027) 76 739 5211.

Back out to look for Zebras

Africa bound

Well I just finished 4 months in Nantucket and I am now off on a new adventure.  Tomorrow morning I head off to jo-berg South Africa.  I am going to be traveling in southern and eastern Africa for 2 months.  My only itinerary is no itinerary.  That is my favorite type of travel.  I am going with a good friend of mine Caroline.  She is from Australia and likes to do the same type of travel.  When we land in Jo-berg we are going to go to the bus station and pick out a city to go to.  The countries we are planning on hitting are as follows: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, The Seychelles, and Madagascar.  We want to go on a couple safaris and see how many animals we can see.  Kruger national park in South Africa has 2,500 lions and 30,000 Zebra.  We're hoping we can see some of those lions eat some of those Zebras!!!

We are also planning on going sand surfing in Namibia.  Namibia has the highest sand dunes in the world.  Sand surfing is where you are taken to the top of a sand dune put on a surfboard/snowboard and surf down.

We are also planning on spending a few weeks on the coast and on the islands scuba diving.  Zanzibar and The Seychelles have some of the best scuba diving in the world (so I hear).  We are going to see if we can get on a boat of some sort and travel from the mainland of Africa to Madagascar.  

It should be pretty wild indeed.  

I have always wanted to go to Africa and this trip is going to be fantastic.  I plan on being excited, scared, astounded, amazed, and many other things.  I am going to have the opportunity to learn a great deal about many different cultures and see some amazing things.  

I hope that I can be updating my blog often from Africa but I have no idea how the internet access is going to be.  I assume that in the cities it should be ok but when we are out playing with the giraffes and chetahs it might not be the best.