Month: September 2011

New South Wales

Kosciusko View

06/09/2011

On my flight home from Africa, I flew a final sector from Sydney to Melbourne. On a beautiful clear afternoon, we had a spectacular view of the Kosciusko Range under snow; a real contrast to the tropical heat of Zanzibar where I had started NT trip home, some 24 hours earlier. In this photo from […]

Africa

Jambo Bwana

05/09/2011

It seemed that everywhere we travelled in Kenya, we came across a silly little song called ‘Jambo Bwana’. It was sung when we were greeted at a hotel / resort, when the waiters came with a birthday cake for a guest and almost any other situation that was happy. It has a funky tune and […]

Africa

Zanzibar

02/09/2011

Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous part of the United Republic of Tanzania, in East Africa. Originally settled by Arab and Portuguese traders who visited the region in early times, it was controlled by Omanis in the 18th and 19th centuries. Up until the late 17th Century, it was a centre of the slave trade for the […]