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A Maasai Grandmother’s Tale

While on safari, we were privileged to meet a Maasai grandmother, ask questions about her life, and listen to one of her stories. Here’s what the experience was like. “Supa!” comes the gravelly, baritone shout from one end of our camp’s lounge tent. Our group looks up. We were expecting this encounter, but like most […]

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Serengeti Safari

We had always planned to take a safari on our trip, but didn’t book one in advance. We weren’t sure about our itinerary, and couldn’t decide whether to do one in South Africa or head up to Kenya or Tanzania. A safari in South Africa’s Kruger National Park would be logistically easier for us (since […]

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Travel interrupted: Coronavirus

When we embarked on this trip, we had no way of knowing a global pandemic would erupt while we traveled. This is a quick note to our readers that through lots of luck and a slight change in travel plans, we’re healthy (as far as we know) and are someplace relatively unaffected so far (New […]

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Cape Town

After an overnight flight from Cairo to Johannesburg, a connecting flight took us to Cape Town. I’ve heard many wonderful things about Cape Town, and was quite excited to arrive. Our taxi driver from the airport gave us a bit of history and pointed out some of the sights along the way toward downtown. Table […]

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Cairo

At first we hadn’t planned to visit Cairo. The government is building a brand-new museum to host Egypt’s treasures: the “Grand Egyptian Museum,” set to open in 2018. Or 2019. Or early 2020. Or late 2020. Or 2021. Maybe. Locals explained that its being built on Egyptian Time, which is somewhat more vague and flexible […]