Africa Travel Newsletter - March 2007
TRAVEL CENTRE
If Africa is your chosen destination for this year's holiday
our Travel
Center is the perfect place for you to have a browse through to get
some ideas and make some enquiries. There is the choice of over 600 individual
itineraries - from budget to sheer luxury, offered by many different tour
operators throughout the African continent. Click
to view the whole selection.
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Madagascar
- VIP - Luxury Trip - Madagascar
9 Days: You are VIP or you decide
to spend your unique holiday in Madagascar like a VIP , we have the right
program for you; wildlife and culture with beach holiday in Sainte Marie. You
will travel in a comfortable car with your skilled driver-guide and will spend
your unforgettable nights in the best hotels available at the places you
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Wildlife
and more on the Island of Madagascar - Madagascar
21 Days:
Madagascar's treasures include dozens of species of lemurs - a family of
primates older than the monkey and a distant relative of humans - as well as
several endemic birds and a colourful cast of chameleons. Three-quarters are
found nowhere else in the world. This itinerary gives you the chance to
experience it all - Highlights include: Andasibe-Perinet – Lac Rasoabe
– Ankanin’ nofy – Ranomafana NP – Anja park – Isalo NP
– Ifaty Towns visited: Antananarivo – Toamasina (Tamatave) –
Antsirabe – Fianarantsoa – Ambalavao – Toliara (Tuléar)
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Uganda
Mountain Gorilla Fly-In Safari - Uganda
5 Days: A hassle free Luxury
gorilla trip by private air to and from Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Park,
staying at a new intimate exclusive high end safari camp with a breath taking
view of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Plus a safari with the chance to view
the Tree Climbing Lions at Ishasha in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
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Special Offers / Late Deals
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Special
- Exploratory Tour to Botswana & Zimbabwe
13 days
Special Offer scheduled departure date 13th July
2007 offered at a very reduced rate
The tour begins in Johannesburg
and head north into Botswana and east to Zimbabwe. Visiting the might Victoria
Falls and Kariba, where we spend 3 nights on a houseboat before heading back to
JHB. |
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Special
- Exploratory Tour to Botswana & Namibia
13 days
Special Offer scheduled departure date 8th
September 2007 offered at a very reduced rate
The tour will begin
in Johannesburg and head north into Botswana, visiting the Great Pans and Chobe
before heading further on to Namibia exploring the wildlife, scenery &
culture, ending in Windhoek |
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Discover
the wild West of Madagascar - Madagascar
14 days
Special Offer scheduled departures on 19th and
30th June, 10th July, 31st July, 21st August and 25th September. The price is
1125 Euro per person sharing discounted from 1,975 Euros
Highlights
of the West of Madagascar, including Canoeing down the Tsiribihina River ,
Tsingy de Bemaraha NP, Analabe, Andranomena, Baobab alley, Kirindy-Mitea NP
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The
Culture of the Menabe Region - Madagascar
10 days
Special Offer scheduled departures on scheduled
departures on 6th and 22nd May, 19th and 30th June, 10th and 31st July, 21st
August and 25th September. Price is 750 Euro sharing discounted from 1,350
Euro
We get to know the Tsiribihina River in a wooden boat and we
visit the Tsingy de Bemaraha. We will look for lemurs in the Andranomena
reserve. We finish at the Baobab-alley near Morondava. |
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Kruger
National Park : Family/Small Group safari - South Africa
6 days
Special Offer 6 to 11 June 2007 discounted to
11500 RANDS
A privately guided safari itinerary in the Kruger
National Park - complete with 5-star service in nature guiding (ranger) and
cooking (chef) in the small private bushveld guest lodges. |
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Kruger
Small Group Safari - South Africa
5 days Special Offer Departure 2nd April 2007.
A
6-day adventure safari into the Kruger followed by an awesome 7-day look at the
Western Cape including Cape Town. This unique package combines the Cape Floral
Kingdom with big 5 adventure. |
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Kruger
and Cape July Special - South Africa
13 days Special Offer 15 to 27 July special offer .
A 6-day adventure safari into the Kruger followed by an awesome 7-day look
at the Western Cape including Cape Town. This unique package combines the Cape
Floral Kingdom with big 5 adventure. |
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Offer
We can't add all the itineraries to this Newsletter - if none
of the above appeal then I am sure you will find one that suits you in our
Africa
Travel Center. where you can search by country, price, number of days,
activities and national parks.
and if you can not find an itinerary that
suits your specific requirements and there are 2 or more of you travelling we
would be happy to assist you in designing your own itinerary. Please complete
our Customised
Request Form
The Africa Guide website also has loads of
information that will assist travellers who wish to make their way round Africa
independently of tour operators and guides. Please visit our
Africa Countries Index and select the
country you are interested in |
New
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New Music
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African Spirit - Soweto
Gospel Choir (Artist)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
African Spirit, the Choir's
third CD, is their most accessible project yet with an irresistible mix of
their versions of internationally known inspirational songs and distinctive
South African gospel, including some of the songs that have received the
greatest response from their audiences. |
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Vieux Farka Toure - Vieux
Farka Toure (Artist)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
Music from Mali: the self-titled
debut by the son of the late international superstar and two-time GRAMMY©
Award-winner Ali Farka Touré. The album features Ali himself on two
remarkable pieces. A highly talented guitarist, singer, songwriter, and
percussionist, Vieux has crafted a globalminded style all his own. With
flourishes of rock and reggae amidst Saharan Blues and traditional Malian
melodies, Vieux Farka Toure ushers in the next generation of Mali
blues |
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M'Bem Di Fora - Lura
(Artist)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
Lura brings us extraordinary and
exotic music of the volcanic island of Cabo Verde, whose rich blend of trade
route cultures has created an unusual musical tradition of intoxicating rhythms
and piercing melodies. |
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One Life - Johnny Clegg
(Artist)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
"One Life" has all the
instrumental and vocal hallmarks that made the best Clegg & Savuka albums
so great in the late 80's and early 90's. This is the band's best album in
years. It is a return to the mixture of Western and Zulu rhythms, and English
and Zulu lyrics that make this group so exciting |
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Afrikya, Vol. 1: A Musical Journey
Through Africa - Marcus Samuelsson (Artist), Donna d'Cruz (Artist)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
Ethiopian born, Swedish raised
Marcus Samuelsson.has collaborated with Rasa Music's founder and renowned
celebrity DJ Donna D'Cruz to bring together this CD which is a hip,
contemporary musical celebration and features artists from Tunisia, South
Africa, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia, Harlem, Sweden, and Cape Verde. |
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Por Por: Honk Horn Music of Ghana
- Drivers Union Group (Artist)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
A world premiere: squeeze-bulb
honk horns join bells, drums, and voices to sound the world of union drivers
and their vehicles on the 50th anniversary of Ghana's independence. Recorded by
Steven Feld. |
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Gems From the Classic Years
(1967-1976) - King Sunny Ade (Artist)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
One of the most popular and
important performers of the Nigerian musical style known as Juju--a fluid,
highly rhythmic music that used traditional African percussion to create a
dense, multi-layered sound--King Sunny Ade brought new stylistic concepts to
the form and helped introduce the music to an international audience.
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Golden Afrique 3 - Various
Artists (Artist)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
The music of Zimbabwe is
inspired by the sound of the mbira, a traditional instrument echoed directly in
the guitar cascades of The Four Brothers and Hallelujah Chicken Run. We also
hear rhumbira and jit, rooted in Congolese rumba. From the copper belt of
Zambia comes a more Central African dance sound, represented here by the Masasu
Band, The Big Gold Six and Smokey Hangala. This exciting compilation includes
many rare gems never previously released on CD |
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Amin Iman: Water Is Life-
Tinariwen (Artist)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
Music from Mali: On their third
album they keep the root intact, the desert blues still at the heart of all
they do, but this builds upon what they achieved on their superb sophomore
disc, happily restless and unafraid of walking down new paths. However,
although they're rightly lauded for their widescreen blues sound, what emerges
most here is that they're a remarkable rock & roll band, too. |
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Urban Africa Club -
Various Artists (Artist)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
introduces some of Africa's
greatest stars and scenes on the continent. Westafrica is represented by V.I.P.
from Accra the unchallenged superstars of Ghana's hiplife scene. Gabon has a
distinct melodic type of hip-hop that is just starting to make itself heard.
Senegal probably has the hip-hop scene in Africa with the closest connection to
the rest of the world. Urban Africa Club features a new track by one of the
pioneers of hip-hop in Africa: Awadi, the founder of Senegalese supergroup
Positive Black Soul a band that managed to release the first international
african hip-hop album ever. |
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