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Lions and Tigers and Rhinos in South Africa

 A South African Photo Safari By Kent E St. John GoNOMAD Senior Travel Editor The Big Five may sound like a sporting event in the in the U.S. but in South Africa it is all about game, live game. Big strange looking game! The team includes lions, leopards, elephant, rhino…

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Mauritius: A Jewel of Africa’s Coast

GoNOMAD Destination Mini-Guide: Mauritius By Nadia Ali Why Go Mauritius is a beautiful sun kissed island that is just 1,865 km in size. It is located 2000 km off the Southern coast of Africa and has its origins in as the result of a volcano. The people are of a…

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Ethiopia: Overland on the Historical Route

By Marie Javins “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. It’s in Ethiopia too.” This occurred to me while I stared at Ethiopia’s Tis Abay— the Blue Nile Falls — near Lake Tana’s colorful monasteries and the Ethiopian source of the Nile. Most people think of pharaohs, pyramids, and feluccas…

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Gorilla Viewing in Uganda

Gorillas of the Bad Gas: Coming face to, er, fart, with Uganda’s Mountain Gorillas By Marie Javins “Ugandans must have bladders of steel,” I thought, shifting anxiously every time the decrepit old “Silver” bus hit a pothole in the dirt road. I’d boarded the bus at six a.m. in the Ugandan…

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In a Desert Land: Namibia

  In a Desert Land: Namibia By Jono David I knew there was something special about this vast desert land when the immigration officer at the windswept Noordoewer border crossing asked me for a pen. “Sorry, I don’t have one,” I said with surrendering hands, looking to another tourist for…

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