Shall we say that getting a haircut while on the road even under the best of conditions is not a stress free experience as Ray Stevens warned us back in 1985? But it’s not always possible to go back home when the locks get long. Today’s experience was complicated by New Jersey’s traffic patterns and local drivers. We got lost twice trying to find a Great Clips, our usual choice, and ended up instead at a shopping mall housing a haircut mill with barbers waiting for customers. Steve ended up with a shorter than expected but rather decent haircut from a barber that may or may not have had the language skills to understand what Steve was asking. We’ll just say, it was a cultural experience!
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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