MY AFRICAN PHOTO DIARY-2011

This is my photo diary from 2011 when I spent 6 months on this magnificent continent travelling East Africa mainly.  Part of that 6 months, 2 of them were on an overland trip, the rest was made up of smaller tours including Morocco, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Seychelles and Reunion Island.

I have spend hours sorting through thousands, literally thousands of photos, to pick the top pictures to collaborate my time on my travels.  I am quite proud of the end result and it was truely rewarding going back over the photos to appreciate the trip and the great memories.  I think that everyone should go back over their holiday snaps at one point, to realise just how lucky we are to see and tour this beautiful planet we call home.

Click the link below to enter my African experience:
My African Photo Diary-Series Three

This poem is from the woman I was lucky enough to spend 6 weeks of our 8 week adventure with in a tent.  She had been working on a farewell poem, to sum up our time together and our experiences and feelings and all that good stuff that goes with a trip like this overland one.  It is an amazing piece of work and it sums up our whole trip, EXACTLY, so please enjoy it as much as I do each time I read it. 

I am PROUD to have you as a friend Lisa aka Trumpet xx

THE TRICK OF REMEMBERING AFRICA

The trick of remembering Africa

                Is the trick of using both feet

A journey is a dusty road rising up to the horizon

                It is a new blue sky

Meeting is a handshake

                It is two backpacks dropped together

Music is the wind through a truck window

                It is a whistled song about the sun

Friendship is a dance under a full moon

                It is the hug of a Masai blanket

Laughter is a bird call, a hippo grunt

                It is flapping arms and falling cups

Adventure is a jump

                It is a white tumble of water

Home is a tent under acacias

                It is a circle around a camp fire

Stories are red cave paintings

                They are blogs and photos and stamps

Peace is a misty green rainforest

                It is the lick of the sea on hot skin

Beauty is the stars against the dark sheet of night

                It is the golden plains of the Serengeti

Memories are rocks which hold the heat of the day

                They are flashing metorites behind your eyes

Love is a glance, a smile

                It is the one who sleeps next to you

Farewells are the edge of a continent

                They are cloudy skies

The trick of remembering Africa

                Is the trick of using both feet

Both feet

To follow the tracks

It made across our hearts

…and find our way back

Intrepid Africa Encompassed

18 days Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda.

42 days Nairobi to Cape Town.

16 July - 13 September  2011. 

LISA JONES – NEW ZEALAND