The first Game Drive started at 4:30pm. With the off-roader we went for a short round trip. Starting with good light but clouds were already showing in the back and the light got bad later. Lucky we were that the first shot taken in the Masai Mara was directly number one on my list: Too […]
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Three visits to the African continent, always fascinating
Saturday July 12th, 2014 (morning)
At 7:30am we were picked up by Jackson. Now a long road trip to Masai Mara started. Around 270 km through the Great Rift and down to Narok. The last part of around 60 to 70 km were dirt roads. At 1pm we arrived at Little Mara Bush Camp. After lunch and getting familiar with […]
Friday July 11th, 2014
Flight from Hamburg to Nairobi via Zurich. After having checked with Swiss Air and Lufthansa that it is possible to check-in the luggage the night before, we went to Hamburg on Thursday late afternoon and have one night in Radisson Blu (Airport). The early check-in was a frustration. As the co-partner for Swiss Air for […]
Egypt 2008
I changed the way to store pictures from internal WordPress mode to use SmugMug. Link to the Gallery is given below. Short Appetizer…
Sunday, 26th October 2008
Last night, the good man at the front desk asked if I wanted to be woken up. I said I wanted to use the cell phone as an alarm clock, but after some back and forth, I agreed. What luck. During the night, the phone changed from daylight saving time to winter time. When the […]
Saturday, 25th October 2008
So, last day today. Tomorrow at 4:30 the driver comes to the airport Hurghada. Then it goes back; to where it is cold and rainy. At 9 o’clock with the shuttle still to the in-house beach at the Red Sea. Quite nice, but Cuxhaven offers more. The water is far away because of the tide […]
Friday, 24th October 2008
It’s a great facility here at the Steigenberger Golf Resort Hotel. However, not quite my cup of tea. New and old have never been. Food is of course top class and even the spaghetti is on the plate and not next to it. Towards afternoon a short tour to downtown El Gouna. Here everything really […]
Thursday, 23rd October 2008
So, the reason for the trip is reached…. Now I can join in with the 50-year-olds. Today we go in convoy from Luxor to El Gouna. At 8 o’clock we start. Mohammed says goodbye and hands us over to two drivers. One of them speaks a little English, the other apparently not at all. Around […]
Wednesday, 22nd October 2008
Last day in Luxor. Very early on deck you can see the balloons rising over the Valley of the Kings on the east bank. Some make their rounds all the way over Luxor. Behind the MS Nile Style lies the Sudan. Built about 1850 (says Mohammed) and still in service. Beautiful wooden superstructure. Agatha Christie […]
Tuesday, 21st October 2008
At shortly before six we have to get up. In the night – around four – we have left Aswan and are on the way down the Nile in the direction of Luxor. Finally this stupid ship on the side left behind us. Around seven o’clock we are supposed to visit the temple in Kom […]