We’ve been without a real bed of our own since the waning days of August 2008. Our bedroom furniture was too massive for this house so we gifted it to a friend just before we left St Petersburg. Since then we have slept on an air mattress unless we were in a hotel or staying with family or friends. It’s will be a bit like heaven to be sleeping in our own bed once again.
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.
And even when staying with family you have had to sleep on an air mattress. Glad to see that you are acquiring some basic amenities.