Although it doesn’t look like much from the exterior, our visit to Roadside America Miniature Village near Shartlesville, Pennsylvania, truly was a visit into wonderland. This magical place is so much more than one miniature village, it’s a vast collection of handcrafted miniature villages originally created merely for personal and family enjoyment then eventually opened to the public. It is still owned and run by the originator’s granddaughter. We wandered through marveling at the skillful craftsmanship. Having some personal experience with modeling we were especially wowed at the intricacy and detail of this trip through our nation from Native American villages to 1950’s small towns. And, yes, we learned about it from the Roadside America app!
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.
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