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The (well) hidden charms of Arusha 3

So we went out without backpacks, took taxis after 6pm and ignored and sent away anyone who tried to strike a conversation on the streets ...
Ethiopia 9 Hideousness Of The Plate

It seemed the moment to broach this delicate issue. But I was keen not to cause offence. I didn’t want to let on that it was the sheer hid...
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Ethiopia 10 anti-slaving device

The plates are worn, rather like a veil in Islamic societies, in the presence of men. At home and in the company of other women, they tend...
Ethiopia 12 It Was Erotic, But Happily Innocent

On a low ridge, we arrived at the village with flocks of goats returning to their family corrals for the night. There was a dance at sunse...
Namibia 4 A Continuous Cacophony

As I enter the gated grounds, the kids stop and sing the African national anthem for us, doing so in 4 languages. These children are hap...
Ethiopia 8 - Nothing Compares To the Lip Plate

They giggled behind their hands at our pale skin, our watery eyes, our bizarre clothing. In this barefoot, bare-assed and bare-breasted comp...
Namibia 2 Parents Are Dead From AIDS

Every so often one finds a home marked as a Tuck Shop -- a place where an entrepreneur has bought some bulk product, selling smaller quantit...
Kenia: Masai Mara 4

Her ‘kill’ was still up in the tree but she was gone. The leopard is very hard to spot (they are masters of camouflage) and is always hi...
Sudan to Egypt 10 Departing Sudan

Not sure why they didn’t want payment from us when we could see everyone else paying, but I’m not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. ...

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Asia

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Europe

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Americas

Backpacking Through South America 4 - *Above the Cordillera * There was also a bit of anxiety mixed in. Even before leaving, I’d heard warnings and threats – you’ll be robbed, mugged, or eve...
Africa

Backpacking Through Africa 20 – Mzungu! Mzungu! - The word mzungu *(muzungu)*, meaning 'white person'—and beloved by screeching urchins all over East Africa— was coined in the days of the early European...
Pacific

Philippines: Stairway To Heaven 10 - In many places, the bones are cleaned a day after death and placed in special sacred places (e.g. in a house of spirits). Jaws or even whole skulls are...
Backpackers' Handbook

Tourists and Backpackers 13 - The tourist also brought beer from home, which he sips in the caravan at night while watching a dubbed American soap opera from a DVD he packed. Before...
Slovenia

Slovenia Road Trip Bled - From the Skocjan Caves, the two of us drove up to Bled, home to Lake Bled, one of the most famous sights in all of Slovenia. The accommodation for the ...
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Mursi, Ethiopia , Part 2 Exploring Remote African Tribes - Janin Klemenčič - Mursi, Ethiopia Part 2