Sometimes, you turn down an unknown road, just by chance, and you end up exactly where you’re meant to be. On this day, the road led us to a serendipitous encounter with a couple of Filipino missionaries, and restored my faith in humanity.
Wandering Footsteps: Wandering the World One Step at a Time » A travel journal following a family on their overland trip around the world.
Category Archives: Africa The streets were clean, the stop-lights worked, the road lines were being freshly repainted. It was hard to believe that exactly twenty years ago, one of the most widely-publicized genocides in history was planned and executed from here. We were driving into Kigali, and I had expected anything but this.  French speakers, right-hand driving, staring people, crowded villages, fresh baguettes. Burundi was the most unique country I’ve visited in all of Africa. I’m glad I went, but one week was definitely enough.  Because of fear, we almost didn’t go to Tanzania. I’m glad I did – it was my favorite country in East Africa and afforded me some of my best travel memories so far. Read on for my top seven Tanzanian highlights.  Lake Tanganyika is definitely a bit off-the-beaten track, so when you decide to visit, it’s best to see it more than once. We traveled from the Southernmost to the Northernmost tip to fully wrap our minds around this deepest of African lakes. Here are our impressions of Tanzania’s stretch. |
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