South Africa 2011/12
"South Africa, Victoria Falls & the Nile"
After the current unrest in the Middle East has subsided.
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Information about the African Railway System |
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Highest Point in Africa, Mt Kilimanjaro |
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Mt Kilimanjaro Travel Guide |
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Main Goals |
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Ingress-egress...TBD | |
| Lesotho | 2 |
A country of mountains and a tranquil capital |
| Mosambique | 1 |
A beach trip coming from Johannisburg to Mozambique and on to Swaziland |
| Swaziland | 2 |
Land of Rhinos. Maybe white-water rafting on the Usutu River |
| Botswana | 3 |
Rent car in SA and drive around. Avoid tours. Expensive country. |
| Victoria Falls | 2 |
Trains from SA |
| Tanzania | 4 |
Train from Zambia - National Park, Kilimanjaro |
| South Sudan | 3 |
If at all possible, I will make a quick visit to South Sudan, the youngest nation on Earth |
| Khartoum | 5 |
Flight from Tanzania - ships/trains down the Nile - see ruins of Nubian Empire |
| Egypt | 8 |
From Sudan - Aswan to Cairo - Alexandria - Sinai and beyond |
| TBD | 4 |
Jordan - Petra - Amman |
| TBD | TBD |
If alone, I will head into post-Ghaddafi Libya and maybe Tunisia |
| TBD | 5 |
Israel - Jerusalem, Dead Sea, Akko, Tel Aviv, etc. etc. |
| TBD | 3 |
TBD - possibly Athens, London and return |
| Travel Details & Dates | 45 |
Visa for Sudan - get it early. Slow and expensive. If all else fails, it is said that access by land from Egypt is fairly easy to do, I may turn part of the trip around and have me flying into Cairo, go up the Nile to Aswan, then on to Sudan and bus up-river to Khartoum, from there fly back to Aswan and take trains back to Cairo.
Right now I show 45 days, with some flex in the system
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Top of Victoria Falls, sitting in Devil's Armchair |
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Top of Victoria Falls, Devil's Pool |
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Devil's Pool - I dream of that |
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Victoria Falls |
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Sudan- North and South. South is newest nation on earth |
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The flags that might be added to my flags page for this trip.
Mouse-over flags to see the names of the countries.
