Literally! And figuratively. It’s been a fun day. We’re in the Land of the Midnight Sun and we just had to get up in the middle of the night just to see the daylight out of our hotel window. We rode on the Binkley Family’s Discovery III on the Chena River. We saw sled dogs, reindeer, seaplanes, smoked salmon, native crafts, and more. After a lunch and explore in downtown, we stopped by the Alaska Pipeline Visitors Center before we visited the The El Dorado Gold Mine and enjoyed the showmanship of Yukon Yonda and Dexter Clark. We all found gold in our pans! Later, after a trip to North Pole to visit Santa, we ate our fill at the Alaska Salmon Bake.
Queen Mary 2’s arrival in the Port of Dakar, Senegal was heralded in the local press and greeted with ceremony. Our own excursion took us on a coach journey through the streets of the capital city to visit a Wolof village and the shore of Lake Retba, the salty lake famed for an intense pink color.
Today’s safari adventure transported us out into the Dorob National Park to have up close encounters with little creatures that are well adapted to the extreme heat and lack of water in the Namib Desert.
With a UNESCO World Heritage Site, two national parks, dozens of museums, and hundreds of tours offered in the Cape Town area there is more than plenty to do. For our two day visit we opted to concentrate on African wildlife visiting the Aquila Private Game Reserve and the Boulders Beach Penguin Colony for a wonderful chance to these fabulous animals in their own habitat.
0 Comments