Africa Archives - Svenywhere - Your hidden travel gems https://svenywhere.com/category/africa/ Authentic travel discoveries, travel blog, budget travel, backpacking, living around the world all written by Sven Koster. Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:58:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 How is it to celebrate Christmas abroad? https://svenywhere.com/celebrate-christmas-abroad/ https://svenywhere.com/celebrate-christmas-abroad/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:00:47 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1780 Christmas, a family focused event. How would you celebrate this Christian event when you are fare away from your friends and family? This is my experience of celebrating Christmas in Tanzania, Taiwan and London. Tanzania My first experience of Christmas was in Tanzania. Tanzania is after the colonization a Christian country. However if you go […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/celebrate-christmas-abroad/feed/ 1 Playing Black Peat in Tanzania and London https://svenywhere.com/playing-black-peat-tanzania-london/ https://svenywhere.com/playing-black-peat-tanzania-london/#respond Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:00:11 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1771 A little disclaimer in this article I will not start the discussion if black peat is racist or not and should be forbidden. Black Peat the support person of Saint Nicholas gives candy and presents every year on the 5th of December. It is a tradition in the Netherlands, and also in other places of […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/stuck-boat-4-days/feed/ 0 Why the people of Fez are making beautiful Fez a nightmare to visit https://svenywhere.com/why-the-people-of-fez-are-making-beautiful-fez-a-nightmare-to-visit/ https://svenywhere.com/why-the-people-of-fez-are-making-beautiful-fez-a-nightmare-to-visit/#respond Tue, 08 Aug 2017 10:00:04 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1657 Sometimes during your travels, you will visit a wonderful place but still you wished you never came there. Fez in Morocco is such a place. The Medina (old town) is wonderful and there are so many things to discover. Unfortunately the locals are making this place a nightmare to tourists. Just let me explain a […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/why-the-people-of-fez-are-making-beautiful-fez-a-nightmare-to-visit/feed/ 0 How to book your Sahara trip https://svenywhere.com/book-sahara-trip/ https://svenywhere.com/book-sahara-trip/#respond Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:35:33 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1644 One of the things you want to do in Morocco is a Sahara trip. We did a 3 day tour and you can read here about day 1, day 2 and day 3 of this tour. While you can book your Sahara trip already online in advance it is much better to book it in […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/book-sahara-trip/feed/ 0 3 Day Sahara Trip in Morocco (Day 3) https://svenywhere.com/3-day-sahara-trip-morocco-day-3/ https://svenywhere.com/3-day-sahara-trip-morocco-day-3/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1603 This is my last post where I will explain what we did in our amazing 3 days Sahara Trip. I have already written about day 1 and day 2. As I told you before, if you will ever visit Morocco you HAVE to visit the Sahara desert as well. Stars We went to back at […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/3-day-sahara-trip-morocco-day-3/feed/ 1 3 Day Sahara Trip in Morocco (Day 2) https://svenywhere.com/3-day-sahara-trip-morocco-day-2/ https://svenywhere.com/3-day-sahara-trip-morocco-day-2/#respond Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:00:10 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1549 You can’t visit Morocco without a Sahara trip. There are different type of trips but we choose to do the 3 day and 2 night trip. In my previous post I explained how my first day of the trip looked like. Now I want to tell you what kind of amazing things the second day […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/3-day-sahara-trip-morocco-day-2/feed/ 0 3 Day Sahara Trip in Morocco (Day 1) https://svenywhere.com/3-day-sahara-trip-morocco-day-1/ https://svenywhere.com/3-day-sahara-trip-morocco-day-1/#respond Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:00:25 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1498 If you can only do one thing in Morocco you HAVE to do a Sahara trip. The amazing sand dunes in the Sahara desert are unbelievable. We choose for a 3 day private trip starting and ending in Marrakesh. Because we did a private trip we could visit more things than with a group trip. […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/3-day-sahara-trip-morocco-day-1/feed/ 0 Luck during travelling: Floods in Accra https://svenywhere.com/luck-during-travelling-floods-in-accra/ https://svenywhere.com/luck-during-travelling-floods-in-accra/#respond Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:20:44 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1469 It June the 2nd 2015. Today I will go to from Nkoranza to Accra. This journey will take me a whole day squeezed into a trotro. Basically I need to sit in a small van with 15 other people. At Kumasi I need to switch from trotro. Here a priest entered the trotro. It is […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/luck-during-travelling-floods-in-accra/feed/ 0 7 Awesome Wildlife Pictures https://svenywhere.com/7-awesome-wildlife-pictures/ https://svenywhere.com/7-awesome-wildlife-pictures/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:00:40 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1348 I thought I will make a different post this time. Lately I have been playing around with photo editing. Something I never did before. So this time I will show you some of my results of my wildlife pictures shot during my trips in Africa. Vervet Monkey The Vervet Monkey, shot in Tarangiri National Park, […]

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