Therefore I travel

Hi,

This is the first of a series of reports I intend to write during my trip to Africa. They will be written in English due to the existence of non-portuguese people in the readers.

Tomorrow, I will leave to Lisbon, since my first flight is very early in the morning of Saturday. Egypt Airways will take me from Lisbon to Nairobi in Kenya, making a transfer of 7 hours in Cairo. I didn’t renew my Egyptian Visa so I can’t even leave the airport. Boring time ahead. That will be the beginning of this journey, from the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya to the Atlantic coast of Namibia. According to Google Earth (see print screen in attachment) if I would go in a direct line between the main cities I am going to visit, it would count for about 7000 kilometers. But we all know that direct lines don’t exist in Europe, Rest alone in Africa, and of course, the itinerary may change at any time.

Our itinerary will let us go through Lake Nakuru (remember Out of Africa movie and the 1 million pink flamingos? it’s here) in Kenya, Serengetti and Ngorongoro Crater Safaris (best concentration of Wild Life in Africa), the Kilimanjaro (Tallest free-standing mountain in the world) and the paradisiac beaches of the Zambizar Island in Tanzania, the Victoria Falls (Biggest Waterfalls of the world) in Zambia, the Okavango Delta (considered one of the most beautiful places in the world) in Botswana, the Skeleton Coast (feared by the sailors in the discoveries age), cape cross (with a colony of thousands of seals and horrible smell), sossuvlei desert (oldest desert in the world and with the biggest dunes) and FishRiver Canyon (Biggest Canyon in the world after the Grand Canyon in the United States).

I will be staying with couch surfers every night, except while in safari or in the Okavango Delta, since I will be camping by that time. Hope the lions can’t find our tent During the preparation of this trip, besides all the logistic of moving from place to place, finding somewhere to stay, know what to see and do, etc, I have taken a bunch of vaccines and medicines: Hepatitis A, Typhoid, Cholera, Yellow Fever and pills for Malaria Profilaxy. The latter is a bit aggressive and I’ve been noting minor side effects.

I’m sending pictures of some of my expectations of Africa. Let’s hope the trip lives up for the expectations.
And that’s it for my first report. Stay tuned for updates!
Cheers, Regards and Kisses for everyone, will miss you all.
Joao Oliveira

P.S. Take well care of the cold, as of Saturday I will only be expecting temperatures of over 30 degrees