My girlfriend once told me that the road down the aisle is paved with good intentions, but only if you walk it wearing the perfect dress.

I’ve always disagreed with her on the issue of wedding dresses and this has really strained our relationship.

Perhaps Antoinette needs to borrow a leaf from two monkeys who recently wedded in a special ceremony held at a zoo in Wenling, China.

Wukong, a 7-year-old male monkey and a 6-year old female monkey named Xiaoya (pictured) seem to have understood that there is more to a wedding than the dress.

The fact that Xiaoya’s dress wasn’t the right size didn’t deter the two lovebirds from flamboyantly walking down the red carpet to the zoo’s centre stage from where they tied the knot. Read the rest of this entry »

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1. Abu Simbel in Egypt

The two temples at Abu Simbel Egypt are best known for two reasons: their dazzling magnificence, and their historic relocation from their original cliff. These monumental temples were originally carved out of a sandstone cliff near River Nile over three millenniums ago, during the reign of the great Pharaoh - Ramesses II. The temples were dedicated to the Egyptian gods and to Pharaoh Ramesses II.

Recently, in the 1960s, when the Egyptian government was constructing the Aswan High dam, the temples faced the danger of being submerged under the resultant Lake Nasser. The Egyptian government sought the assistance of UNESCO and the international community to help salvage and relocate the temples to an artificial mountain. The relocation entailed dismantling the two temples then reassembling them in exactly the same form and relationship to each other and to the sun. In their new location, the temples are surrounded by an artificial mountain. A photo exhibition of this historic relocation can be seen at the dome at Abu Simbel.

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Is this how “snow” taste?..This man seems to be contemplating…

Sorry, it was not snow but a thick blanket of hailstones that fell in some remote village in Kenya and confused many Kenyans who thought snow had fallen for the first time in Kenya. Bewildered village residents were astonished to find that a fairly thick carpet of hailstones had fallen on their land suddenly.

Snow in Kenya is only found on Mount Kenya. One media house reported that the hailstones had fallen over an area of 100 acres and had caused widespread damage to food crops.

Many villagers were astonished at the incident because it was the first time they were witnessing such an event.

One resident joked and said they thought “Jesus had come back”. I captured some of the images below from videos on the internet..

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Africa is indeed a rich continent teeming with wildlife and natural resources.

We started a section on our site where visitors would post pictures of African animals they took while on safari.

Here is one of them… Doesn’t he have a funny looking face ??

You can view more at our Africa Travel Picture Gallery

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Ever imagined hugging an African Lion! The true story of Christian the Lion illustrates how man and animal can be true friends. In 1969, Rendall and Bourke-two Australians-adopted a Lion cub and took it to London. Later, the Lion, Christian, became too big and had to be reintroduced to the African wild. Here is a video showing the reunion between these old friends, one year after Christian was sent back into the Kenya wild.

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Nigeria is home to one of the most expensive cities in the world. It’s pricier than Los Angeles or Miami, and it’s in a country where many people live on just dollars a day. For more, Farai Chideya speaks with Roxanne Lawson, Director of Africa Policy for TransAfrica Forum.

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I had the privilege of visiting and staying for one night at the exclusive Mara Bushtops Lodge, one of the top luxury lodges in Kenya for free. The lodge is perched on top of a hill outside the Masai Mara main gate

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The astonishing spectacle of a leopard savaging a crocodile has been captured for the first time on camera.

All pictures by Hal Brindley/SOLO Syndication
A series of incredible pictures taken at a South African game reserve document the first known time that a leopard has taken on and defeated one of the fearsome reptiles.

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Below are some images i took in Nairobi city. The city council is doing a good job to beautify this city but more needs to be done. Check out these hotels in Nairobi for those of you looking for accommodation here.

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PRESS RELEASE

Travel Club to Bring Discounts to Domestic Tourists

Kenyan and East African residents have long been annoyed by the fact they at times pay considerably more than foreign tourists for their holidays in Kenya. In fact, the Kenya Tourism Board has reported that UK tourists visiting Mombasa may pay as much as 50% less than locals for the same hotel. Though conspiracy theorists may believe otherwise, the reason for this is that foreign tourists usually buy through travel aggregators who deliver numbers to the hotels and in turn are able to negotiate substantial discounts. Read the rest of this entry »

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Kenya Wildlife Services(KWS) announced that it might be increasing park entrance fees to its national parks. What this literally means is that the cost of going on a safari to see game in Kenyan national parks will increase. The minister for tourism in Kenya raised concerns over this move as the tourism industry has not yet fully recovered from the post election violence that shook the nation early this year.

Neighboring Tanzania has been increasing park fees since last year to as high as $60 per person. In Tanzania they also introduced a fee for crossing the Ngorongoro crater tourists that are passing.

The surprising thing is that even with increase in park fees and  other miscellaneous costs in Tanzania, many lodges continue to experience full bookings. Seems people have more money to spend than i thought

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Are you in the process of planning a trip to Africa? If you are and if your trip will require air travel, you will find that you have a number of options when booking your travel arrangements. One of those options is to purchase an African vacation package.

Although African vacation packages do have their good and bad sides, there are many people that are willing to buy them, as well as recommend them to others. The reasons are two. The allure of African vacation packages is that you often receive a discount and that it is easy to book multiple travel arrangements all at the same time. Though you will find some variations, vacation packages should include more than just airline reservations. Depending on the package in question, they may include overnight accommodations and a car rental as well.

In the process of booking your next travel arrangements in the form of a vacation package, you might wonder how you can go about doing so. The good news is that you have a number of different options. Just a few of the many ways that you can go about finding and buying vacation packages that include airline reservations are highlighted below for your convenience. Read the rest of this entry »

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