Sarah and I have now booked our flights to Africa for this June/July. Oh man, we are so stoked!
We’ve booked a 4 week trip to South Africa and Madagascar and Tanzania for this Summer. We got a fine deal on flights with Emirates Air, $1900 plus tax each. This will fly us from Calgary through Frankfurt (Germany) and Dubai (UAE) to Johannesburg (South Africa), and then from Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) through Dubai and London (England) back to Calgary. We’ve arranged day or two stopovers in both Frankfurt and London to break up the long flights.
We’ve got the Africa on a shoestring Lonely Planet guide and we are starting to figure out where we want to go and what we want to see. Looks like flights are quite cheap within South Africa, so we’ll probably make a trip down to Cape Town. We both want to check out Ngorongoro Crater and we’re thinking about Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
Not sure if you knew, but I (Jeff) got PADI scuba certification lessons for Christmas and Sarah got the same for her birthday, so we’ll be certified scuba divers before we head to Africa. We looking forward to diving with sharks and such off of Madagascar.
Ever been, or heard of someone going to these countries? Please post comments with any suggestions for stuff to do/see.
Also, watch for a new website that I plan on throwing together for our trip.
January 25th, 2007 @ 10:06 am
Sweet dude. Africa seems to be where it’s at these days. A guy I work with is from Tanzania, and he says that Zanzibar is the place to go for a good time. Not sure if that fits with your “on a shoestring” plans though, hehe. Apparently on the mainland you can get 100yrds of beachfront for like 20 g’s, so you could maybe check that out for me :P…
June 9th, 2007 @ 7:26 pm
Testing the comments.