Archive for March, 2011
Since it is the land of the Sahara with its scab in yellow, light pink, blood red, crowded settlements, surrounded by some nature from the sparse forests, arid plains could send dangers of Niger wide and sullen, in an opulent pool of small islands occupied, stamp-sized fields on it.
The Niger Delta one of countless rivulets, canals and lake basins, is always new to the line of demarcation between alluvial and red desert.
Surrounded by a ring of the pain is Timbuktu, a ring of heat, deprivation, thirst, war. Outside, rag pickers, the free running sick and confused, war victims on homemade crutches or cart.
Exhausted, we stumble into the early light flushed out dirty hotel room. Thoughts are no longer available. Naked eye, we scan the whitewashed walls, the wallpaper, the room decoration.
Timbuktu, the fabled city in the South Sahara, located on the point at which touch the Niger Delta and Sahara was a politically important, enlightened, populated by scholars center.
Timbuktu is sand, especially sand, everything falls in sand, is made of sand or takes its color on its own smell. The sand will radiate the heat, the sand gets the city to sand it should be. This house visited in 1956, President Heinrich Luebke. ”
Thoughtful men of faith stroll through the streets, Muthala in the mouth, the Kaust
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The wind blows into the sail, which they have stitched together from old Vietnamese rice bags, it swells to an oversized belly and pushes the boat out into the deep blue Atlantic Ocean around the Cape Verde islands. Sponges filter the water” in between flitting minnows, rising up dead and live coral to algae predominate in the figure – a living educational course. There is news in Cape Verde, the 15 islands 500 km west off the coast of Senegal.
New is about a nature conservation project on Sal, in which volunteers from all over the world, the nests of sea turtles and guard fence and tourists can be there when newly hatched armored carrier scurry up like the nearby sea. On Santo Antao to sell more recently home from guava or papaya jam and aromatic mountain herbs for cooking and health. Where the money depend on the tourist islands remained relatively low. Many roads have been paved, Sao Vicente has a new international airport, three universities offer tourism training. About 80 percent of visitors are attracted by the sandy beaches of Sal and Boavista. As long as the larger scale tourism on the “Sand Island” concentrated, the others remain reasonably intact. Fogo volcano, with its black. The Sierra Malagueta to Santiago, a rugged mountain landscape, with spectacular cliff edges, which is covered by the abundant rains of a green fur. And finally, the jewel of the Cape Verde Islands – at least from the perspective of migrants: the island of Santo Antao.
There, open valleys, canyons, ravines.
The road to Pico da Cruz rises sharply among banana groves, sugar cane fields and thatched-roof stone houses. An old man weeding his tobacco plants. Tattered corn straw beds are to dry. Vitoria, his wife, wiping her hands on her apron.
“White” has now changed its sports shoes for flip-flops and makes time to time stop, to pick up his winter supply of lemon thyme: resistant to cold, the herb! Chickens running around the visitors between the legs on the wall dries a goat stomach, rennet for cheese-making supplies. 50 meters of the Atlantic thunders against the rock, boys from the village to play again, “Saudade”, the song of melancholy, the unofficial anthem of the islands.
Women wear their market purchases on the head home by donkey cart down prices to small farmers bananas and strawberries, thin horses pull carriages ancient. Its owners are competing for the guests of the luxury cruiser “Oberoi Zahra, who has created here on the first day of his trip. Landfall in Aswan, the southernmost city of Egypt.
The bazaar, market, or perhaps even to the Nubian Museum? We walk past the green pastures of the Nile, which grow on parrot orange flowers under trees and along the way, the bright red flowers of the hibiscus bushes glow from afar. “Sewn by our Nubian women”: colorful as the silk scarves and bags, enterprising and overpriced touted by the words.
In the souk of Aswan is the 21 Century city very well.
But Nubia, which once was, we learn later by Ahmed Saber. He studied in Cairo, but how many young graduates have in his home no suitable position. He now serves as leader of the passengers of the luxury ship, accompanied her to the sights along the Nile. That is why the guests are so on board: a journey into the past thousands of years old do they do, immerse yourself in the mythical stories of Egypt’s Pharaonic dynasties.
The crowd is manageable on board: English, Italian, German, united by visible emblems of prosperity. The likely next curiosity and fitness certainly be a further requirement for this exquisite journey to the holy places upper and middle Egypt. A handsome, 72-foot boat for just 54 passengers in 27 cabins big lush. Here there is also Spa and Gym, the fit for the half-day excursions.
In Aswan begins the seven-day trip. Of course, the route to Luxor would meet in three days. But then the time was too short to enjoy and explore the ship due to the landmarks on the shore.
By the end of the cruise, which leads to Edfu and Essna, we are then, thanks to Ahmed, hopefully know, belonged to which dynasty, Tutankhamun, and how this was so with Cleopatra, Caesar and Antony. So far, haunted our minds as rather Liz Taylor and Richard Burton around …
But first, we stand by Ahmed bombarded with historical facts in wonder before the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser. The water level of the lake has long been so low that crocodiles have long since fled. Ahmed lectures in German, the passengers are impressed. What Ahmed so all white! He even knows the etymological difference between candelabra and chandeliers, a lawyer Jutta whispers from Munich.
The latter is located in the lobby of our five-star-plus ship. No Agatha Christie Death on the Nile “atmosphere. No knickknacks, like most of the numerous river vessels, instead purism everywhere. can by the light-filled lounge, where afternoon served the “Five o’clock tea” is, to the pool deck where you can swim to the trips in the evening still and look at the Stars of Egypt.
The stars shone a few hours earlier was still with laser beams to the bet. In the “Sound and Lights” event in the Philae Temple. Once immersed in the Nile, this temple was then on Philae, built on the island of beauty, love and immortality, again.
High-tech sounds blow round the guests. A bit of Mozart, Abduction from the Seraglio, a pinch of Carmina Burana. Most impressive.