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The bugs of plague-like quantity left us more or less alone through the night, and we awoke to another beautiful sunrise accompanied by the wake-up symphony. We had a somewhat rushed breakfast, as we were informed that we’d be leaving earlier than we’d planned since the plane would […]

An entry in the TFS Travel Journal
As we went to sleep last night, we could see through our tent window a most amazing full-moonrise amongst striated clouds through a big acacia tree. Then, as the morning light awakened us, we could see the same strips of clouds, now glowing purple and blue with a […]

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We enjoyed a lovely Serena breakfast buffet (including some eggs w/sailfish) then re-boarded Cliff’s Land Rover for the 2+ hour drive to the border. There we, after a lengthy procedure to leave Kenya, switched to the Mashado Tanzania van, feeling like we were being exchanged for some enemy […]

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We bid adieu to our African palace and were driven to the Vic Falls airport, not even minding the lack of air conditioning in the van as it was pleasantly cool outside. W
e had a bit of a tiff with the security personnel who insisted (not so nicely, […]

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A nice sleep-in morning. We enjoyed their quite good breakfast buffet in the large open-air dining room with the panoramic view of the trees and the busy watering hole (only guinea fowl, impalas, and baboons stopped by while we were watching).
We then took the minibus into […]

St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy. The Basilica’s roots can be traced back to A.D. 324 during the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor. However, it was in 1400 when the Renaissance popes commissioned plans to build the biggest and most impressive cathedral in the world. St. Peter’s Basilica features numerous works of art […]

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Milton’s day: Got to the Ilala by 6:45 for the Zambezi rafting pickup, which of course showed up a bit late, then we drove around and waited at another hotel for a long while, though no one ever joined us. Finally got going, went through the usual […]

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We awoke mostly refreshed, but still not sleeping so well. Breakfast was a nice buffet, then it was time for the 7:30 pickup for our full-day safari in Chobe National Park, Botswana.
We drove first about 90 minutes to get to the park (including the obligatory stop […]