by Richard | Feb 9, 2010 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Travel, Zambia, Zimbabwe
For your entertainment and at least partly for my nostalgia, I kept a list traveling from Cape Town to Cairo of various interesting statistics. It makes for a colourful two minute retelling of the course of events. Cockroaches seen in hotel rooms: On at least four...
by Richard | Jan 10, 2010 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Egypt, Travel
The flight home was about the only uneventful part of the journey. Two days ago, facing the Giza Pyramids, I couldn’t bring myself to understand, to appreciate, what it means for this journey to have come to an end. Back in South Africa – exhausted –...