Africa articles

Travel Tidbits: the Mursi, JetRest, and Luang Prabang
Travel Tidbits, August 2008 issue.
 We visited the Mursi people of Ethiopia. The women stretch their lower lips and insert wooden or terra-cotta discs. We found this, along with corncobs in their hair, quite unattractive, but to the Mursi, the larger the lip plate the more desirable the wearer.

Africa Easy
Travelers' Intercom, August 2008 issue.
The “secret season” in South Africa is during September and October. That’s what Nadia Eckhardt of Africa Easy Travel Company (2212 Queen Anne Ave. North #148, Seattle, WA 98109; 800/617-2319, www.africaeasy.com) told us years ago.

Wild African Ventures tour
Tours in Review, August 2008 issue.
Kenya Deborah Urquhart at Wild Africa Ventures, Inc.

Egypt 27 years later
Travelers' Intercom, July 2008 issue.
After 27 years, in March ’08 my wife and I went back to Egypt; we went on the Grand Circle Travel trip “Ancient Egypt & the Nile River.” BIG difference 27 years later!

Tips for Southern Africa
Travelers' Intercom, July 2008 issue.
Best meal — This was in Cape Town at the Khaya-Nyama Game Restaurant (267 Long St., Cape Town, 8001, South Africa), which served everything possible, such as buffalo, ostrich, warthog, etc. The average price was $20. Small place; reservations almost a necessity.

Abu Simbel with Select Egypt
Travelers' Intercom, July 2008 issue.
An alternative to taking the expensive flight from Aswan, Egypt, to Abu Simbel is going by minivan with a driver and guide.

The sounds of Cairo
Travelers' Intercom, July 2008 issue.
You don’t have to be in Cairo very long to realize that the traffic is horrendously congested.

Ethiopian guide
Travelers' Intercom, July 2008 issue.
My husband, Bob, and I planned a 15-day trip to Ethiopia, March 21-April 4, 2008, through an agency based in Addis Ababa. The arrangements included a driver and an experienced professional tour guide who traveled with us the entire time.

Ethiopian villages
Travelers' Intercom, July 2008 issue.

Experiencing all that Southern Africa has to offer — in luxury
Features, June 2008 issue.