A Media Expedition Through Africa
FacebookLake Tana is Ethiopia’s largest and arguably most impressive lake. Covering 3500 sq km, it hosts dozens of monasteries from the 16th and 17th centuries and serves as the reservoir that feeds the all-important Blue Nile.
We arrive in Bahir Dar in the afternoon, giving us enough time to arrange for a small boat and skipper [...]
Our tour through Northern Sudan represented more than a simple hop-around to the archeological sites, witnessing the region’s age-old cultural history. During this leg of the expedition we reached our northern-most point of the expedition, Wawa, a small village on the banks of the Nile not far from the boarder with Egypt. Having run our [...]
Haroldo and I take to the North of Sudan to witness a completely different world compared to the beginning of our expedition. Here, there are no game-drives or big mammals to track. The magic in northern Sudan is found within the dunes, preserved and hidden by the desert. We follow the Nile North to discover [...]
Windows up, doors locked, and on full alert. Once again we are arriving in an African metropolis, this time it is Khartoum, capital of Sudan. Haroldo and I are pay close attention to suspicious people walking close to Nandi (our Land Rover). After all it was entering another bustling capital city (Lusaka) that we were [...]
Having spent three wonderful days with the Maasai of Il Ngwesi we depart with a positive vibe. After all, the lodge and the stories encountered at Il Ngwesi fit squarely with the mission of “Lights of Africa”. Given such a prime example of ecotourism, I connect the James and Ochen with The International Ecotourism Society [...]
In Kenya it is easy to sign up for a Safari that that takes you to see the big five African mammals in one of the country’s notorious national parks. While the same tours can also offer a superficial “community visit” – taking you to a picturesque mock village where locals go through the motions [...]
