Even though my East African Safari was over, I would have landed back in the USA on Friday if I left right from Arusha. I don’t like to...

Our penultimate day of our East African Safari was here and a level of bittersweetness began to hit us. Even though it felt like we had...

We woke up in the morning and saw our camp for the first time in the daylight. It was even better than I thought. We slept in tents in...

We woke up very early, once again, as we had a day long drive across Tanzania from Tarangire to Serengeti. After bidding farewell to our...

We woke up early in the morning, so early that we needed to be escorted from our tents by the Masai who keep watch all night long. After...

Our 6th day of the trip was quite bittersweet as it was the day that we would say goodbye to half of our tour group as well as our two...

We started our day with another sleep in, not needing to leave the camp until 8:00 AM! Our first stop was something I was really looking...

We were able to sleep in until about 6:30 AM (I know, but that is sleeping in on this trip) before heading to breakfast. The breakfast...

We woke up early the following morning for a sunrise game drive of Masai Mara before we had to leave for Lake Elementaita. Some people...

We had a very early wake up this morning for our highly anticipated Hot Air Balloon ride over Masai Mara. This was something not included...

Jambo from Masai Mara! After lunch at our camp, we boarded our safari vehicles to head out to our first game drive! Since our camp was...

Jambo! We had our kickoff meeting with our Contiki guide at 6:00 PM where I met my travel group for the next 2 weeks – an unusual, but...

Hello from Nairobi, or should I say Jambo? I landed in Nairobi right on time, to the minute, and we disembarked the plane to proceed to...

Hello from somewhere over Europe! It has been quite a while since I’ve updated my blog because, you know, COVID, but I am finally wheels...

Even though the Contiki itinerary ended the previous night in Alexandria, I decided to stay an extra day and take a trip to Alexandria. ...

My penultimate day in Egypt was spent off the coast of Hurghada, a popular beach getaway on the Red Sea for Eastern European tourists. ...

One of the highlights of any trip to Egypt is hot air ballooning over the Valley of the Kings during sunrise.  While insurance prohibits...

We woke up the following morning & were docked in Edfu for a morning visit to the Temple of Horus.  I boarded a cart pulled by a donkey...

The Crocodile Temple, also known as Kom Ombo or the Temple of Two Gods, was a very unique place.  Despite the heat, we ventured off the...

We had a 3:25 AM wake up call on day 4 of our tour because we had to disembark our boat which was still docked in Aswan and head via bus...