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Mombasa
- Kenya
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| This is 'Nobby' - he
was telling us about the lack of NHS dentists! |
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| Probably our most memorable
experience was going on safari at Tsavo East Safari Park. No pictures
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| Woodcarving is big business
in Africa & Asia. Very talented people. |
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Stone
Town - Zanzibar
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| Enjoying some local
music..... |
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| This is where Freddie
Mercury emigrated to the UK from. |
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Sabratha
- Libya
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| Libya was interesting
- the tourists are more of a tourist attraction for the locals than
the locals are for the tourists. Great roman sites though - with
no tourists. |
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Cape
Town - South Africa
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| Sailing into Cape Town
with Table Mountain behind us. 6am - another early morning! Robben
Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned was very interesting.
We were actually guided round by an ex political inmate who was
imprisoned at the same time as Mandela. |
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| Meeting the kids in
the Ramaphosa Township. No-one has any money but they all have the
biggest smiles - maybe there's something to be learnt from that? |
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| Trace with the Zulu
chief at Shakaland Zulu Village. |
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Seychelles
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| Lush green vegetation
everywhere. |
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| Pirate Jack meets an
old acquaintance!!! |
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| Somewhere on a balcony,
in the rain, in the Seychelles. |
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Maldives
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| The Maldives is everything
you'd imagine it to be with idyllic beaches & great bananas. |
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Colombo
- Sri Lanka
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| Not sure how much of
this survived the tsunami? The pictures speak for themselves. |
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| This is Pinnawela elephant
orphanage where the elephants are led down to the river twice a
day to bath. |
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Porbandar
- India
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| The birthplace of Mahatma
Gandhi. The fragrant port of Porbandar where half the Indian population
boards the ship for immigration purposes. |
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| Gandhi is alive &
well & living in Croydon! Tonight Matthew I'm gonna be....... |
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| A spice market near
the house where Ghandi was born - Kirti Mandir. |
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Mumbai
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| Better known as Bombay,
Mumbai has a unique laundry system. Due to a lack of water all the
laundry is taken to a place called Dhobi Ghat. Here each piece of
clothing is labelled with a unique code belonging to the owner and
cleaned. Many crimes have been solved by tracking down the villains
washing code. It's a bit hard to see in this picture but the laundry
is washed in troffs & then laid out to dry on roof tops as far
as the eye can see. |
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Mahabalipuram
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| Amazing rock carvings
& temples from around 7th Century AD. |
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Singapore
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| Trace & Phil (bass)
attended a cookery class at a Chinese Cooking Academy...... |
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Java
- Indonesia
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| The bells of Borobodur.
Apparently it is the largest stupa in the world. Who are we to argue?
Pretty amazing though. |
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Bali
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Bangkok
- Thailand
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| This is inside The Grand
Palace. We spent a very memorable night in Pat Pong looking for
some wooden bears. Don't ask why! |
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Hanoi
- Viet Nam
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| One place we would really
like to return to is Viet Nam. The water puppet theatre in Hanoi
is a must see. |
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Manilla
- Philippines
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| Here's Don (barman)
with his jeep. Don picked us up at 7am and took us to all the sights
after breakfast at his house - a day we'll never forget. Through
working on Minerva we have made many friends in the Phillipines
who we hope to go and visit again one day in their homeland. |
