Tales and Tips About Family Travel Around the World
While we were in Uganda, we took a rafting trip on the Nile River. The Nile is famous because it is the longest river in Africa. It goes all the way from Sudan to Egypt. It’s very old. In the Bible, the baby Moses floats on it. We also saw the Nile in Ethiopia. There…
Read more Floating on the Nile River By Esme (as told to her father)
We’ve been gone from home for two months. We’ve visited Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa, Mozambique and South Africa again. We’re now in Cape Town, which is on the very bottom of the map. In Kruger National Park, we saw lots of wild animals. As soon as we got there, we saw a rhinoceros and also…
Visit to a Ugandan Kids’ Dance Troupe by Esme (as dictated to her father) Uganda is a sweet, spiritual place. But there are a lot of people who have misfortunes in their life. Many Ugandans are very poor. Sometimes, teenagers have kids, and sometimes kids are treated badly. Some can’t afford to go to school.…
*Inspired by Tippi, My Book of Africa In South Africa I’ve seen a lot of wild animals. In one day in Kruger National park I saw rhinos, hippos, baboons, giraffes, buffalo, zebras, a leopard and lots and lots of elephants, who travel in big families. (Baby elephants are so adorable!)
Read more My South African Journey Begins (as told to my dad) by Esme
Our arrival in Ethiopia, our first stop in our trip around the world, did not get off to an auspicious start. We’d stopped over for the night in Dubai, where we marveled in the airport at the talking hologram displays, the four story interior water feature, the banks of gleaming stainless automated sinks in the…
I spent more hours than I care to admit researching what luggage to bring, and finally decided on two 65L wheeling backpacks (from Osprey) and a daypack for each of us (also from Osprey for no other reason that I’d run out of energy to look into other brands). We debated the backpack-versus-wheeling-bag question for…
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