If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?

[NJmaverick]

Where would you go? Why?

[hobbit709]

1. Klasies River Caves

Some of the earliest homo sapiens fossils.
Next would be Olduvai

[XemaSab]

2. Ethiopia

I've heard it's really cool there.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. hard to decide, since different parts of africa are culturally so different

i would love to go to egypt for a different reason than to south africa. ethiopia for one reason, and botswana for another.

[MorningGlow]

4. Mali

I want to talk to the Dogon about their legends about having come from the near Sirius.

Also Egypt (of course) and Olduvai, as I have had a lifelong love of archaeology. And I want to see Victoria Falls.

[applegrove]

5. Tanzania & maybe Madagascar. For the flora and fauna. Though I really think I'd be too afraid

to travel to Africa. I used to dream of going and working there in development. They I had the worst experience in the world and I just don't see myself as a traveler anymore. I would not take an adventure vacation anymore. I did a White Water canoe trip one time and loved it. Now my adrenaline is shot and I feel abject pain when adrenaline flows. For many reasons I will never get to Africa.

[pitohui]

20. madagascar is safer than your home town

the only issue with madagascar is the shitty food, bring a lot of power bars or you WILL lose more weight than you planned

but it's a beautiful, friendly country and there is not a thing in the world to fear there

some people in the cities might want to hustle you/sell you but no one wants to hurt you or mug you

wish i could go back!!!

[applegrove]

22. I hear the flora and fauna are really unique there. It must have been fascinating to go.

[kiva]

6. Egypt. A cruise down (up?) the Nile. n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. I'd like to visit Botswana...

I'd love to explore the Okavango River Delta and meet Bushmen...

[blaze]

8. Here's the place to go!!

http://www.ngepicamp.com/

Gotta love the disclaimer on the bottom of the page! :rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Oh my god! I LOVE these people!

[blaze]

14. Their "Dear Mr Westerner" link

is a pretty compelling read.

I want to go live in their tree houses!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. I read that too...

I must admit that I am addicted to many of my shiny trappings.

It'd be good to learn how to get by without them.

[Demoiselle]

18. How beautiful this camp looks! (nt.)

[Demoiselle]

17. Botswana, definitely.

I love the Ladies Detective Agency novels. Also, Morocco, Egypt, and a game preserve somewhere in West Africa, I guess.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

9. Zambia and Namibia are nice

South Africa is best avoided at the moment, unless your looking to travel 8000 miles to hang around indoors with armed guards. Zimbabwe is relatively safe for foreigners, probably safer than any spot in South Africa but incredibly bleak at the moment for obvious reasons.

[Ivan Sputnik]

10. Egypt first....

to see the pyramids and other antiquities, and the Nile. But I would like to visit just about anywhere in Africa where there isn't a war going on. I would like to go on a photo safari.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. +1 for Egypt

[pinniped]

12. Mount Kilimanjaro and Victoria Falls.

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[pokerfan]

16. Tangier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangier#Culture

[pitohui]

19. kenya is great for beginners, why are you asking?

i have been to the places i've been in africa, kenya, south africa, madagascar mainly thru happenstance, they were where i was invited to go

now the hook is caught in me and i wish to go back but i have things to do here so it will be awhile

there are so many choices impossible to pick just one, if you are a solo traveler, you will have to stop and meditate more before you decide but if someone has invited you to a particular place, just go there and start from there

it would be hard to beat east africa for the wildlife

another person mentioned ethiopia and it's very high on my wish list, more time in south africa and surrounding is high on the list also

[virgogal]

21. Victoria Falls----the beauty of it all.