It’s the Twelfth Day of Christmas! Hopefully no Twelve Lords a Leaping will risk frostbite to arrive on our doorstep this morning. We do have plans to venture out this evening and we’ll wear our long johns when we do. We’re bracketing our Christmas with Asian cuisine. Christmas Eve we enjoyed Japanese food with friends Mary and Stan. Tonight we plan to dine on Thai offerings with them and Jim and Milly. Until then we’ll continue to make inroads into sorting and digitizing all the papers we’ve gathered through the years – a great project for a frigid winter’s day.
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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