Our trip from Madagascar ended in the Seychelles Islands. Beautiful place, not very many people. I believe in 2005 Travel Channel voted Seychelles with best beaches and they deserved it! Again, a map to give a general idea of where in the world the islands are....
Here are some pictures from the island...
This was the landscape in front of the hotel
You'd be surprised how many of the cars actually looked like this!!
View from the ship as we came in.
The ship
The palm trees grew out instead of up...really cool!
We stayed in 2 cities in Madagascar (it is the island to the east of Africa). One was the capitol and the other just a normal city, Antsiranana. The place was very poor. We had beggars all over us wanting anything we would give them. One lady (we call her the "mista, mista" lady) followed us for at least 2 blocks saying over and over "Mista, Mista...feed the baby." So, one of the guys I was with gave her his remaining swig of water in his water bottle. You would have thought she won the lottery!! Makes you realize how much you take for granted!
The place looks like it was beautiful in its prime. The landscape was beautiful. I posted a map so you could get a general idea of where we were.
While we were in Johanesberg, South Africa we went on a "safari". Basically, we paid $4 to drive our van through the place. The cool thing was we were up close and personal with the animals. Here are some of my favorite pictures
Ok, so I was talking with my sister yesterday and she suggested I start a blog of all my travel especially since there is a new camera involved. What I am going to do is go through all my pictures from the very beginning and try to remember where and write a little about each one. Please be patient as I have 6 years of pictures to go through. Hopefully, this will help people keep up with me as well.