Hey guys, whenever I am in S-Africa I notice S-Africans don't travel the continent.When they travel,Europe,USA or Australia are the main destinations.
Where have you been in Africa;
this is my list
South-Africa,Swaziland,Lesotho,Mozambique,Botswana,Gambia,Senegal,Ghana,Egypt and Tunesia. I still want to visit Zambia,Uganda,Kenia,Tanzania and Malawi

Yeah we do need to explore it more. I've been to Mauritius, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Egypt and briefly to Zambia and Sudan. Next stop Tanzania hopefully.

We are crap, arent we? Here's my list:
South Africa, Lesotho.

I guess we feel (probably wrongly) that there arent many attractions north of the border that we dont have an equivalent or better somewhere in our very varied country.

However I think this is the same everywhere. Most English have never been to scotland, wales - even those living a few miles from the border. Ditto aussies in the outback....

South Africa
Swaziland
Lesotho
Mozambique (January 2007)
Botswana
Namibia (does the Orange river count)
Tanzania
Egypt
Zimbabwe
Mauritius
Madagascar

thats it i think

Me?

Lesotho
Swaziland
Namibia
Botswana
Mozambique (so very very easy to drive to Maputo!)
Zimbabwe
Angola
Malawi
Tanzania
Kenya

Me?

South Africa
Ghana

I am actually in Ghana now on business (almost 9 months).
Should be heading down to Nigeria in a few weeks. Oh boy
you won't believe the life up here in West Africa. Admittedly
not as developed but hey, there is so much more, beautiful
babes, lovely food, and really interesting mix of people from
all over the world and West Africa (Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Cote 'dvoire,
Guinea Bissau, Cameroon etc) and the Francophone vs Anglo phone
culture thing. oh man. And the girls, they respond when you stop
them and ask for their cellphone number, you will be surprised they
even walk back if you went past them and listen to you for like 15 minutes
while you get your act together. LOL

South West Africa and Namibia :) shame on me.

Me just SA & Lesotho, same as u clive, but the Lesotho was to see the highlands dam, that is one BIG FUCKEN DAM WALL!
But I can prudly say I went to almost every part of our country,
CT,
Knysna,
Aliwal North,
Sutherland,
Kimberly,
Limpopo,
Polokwane,
Nelspruit,
Zululand,
St Lucia,

Name the place, Ive been there, maybe I should host that show "going now where slowley"?

My first trip out of ZA was to Botswana as a young child and then very regularly back to my Oupa's farm there from then on. We also went to Zambia, Rhodesia, SWA and Swaziland. When I left ZA I had to go through Zimbabwe to fly to Sydney in 1988 and nothing much had changed in the old Salisbury. Since then I've been To Mozambique, Congo and Angola (this year) Now there's potential for growth... Next trip is Tanzania and Kenya- can't wait

Me just SA & Lesotho, same as u clive, but the Lesotho was to see the highlands dam, that is one BIG FUCKEN DAM WALL!
But I can prudly say I went to almost every part of our country,
CT,
Knysna,
Aliwal North,
Sutherland,
Kimberly,
Limpopo,
Polokwane,
Nelspruit,
Zululand,
St Lucia,

Name the place, Ive been there, maybe I should host that show "going now where slowley"?


Have you been to Amsterdam ??Utrecht?Middelburg or Ermelo ? Or perhaps Amersfoort ??

the orange river does count for namibia right? i mean what else is there to do in namibia?

Only Namibia, Botswana and Lesotho.

I would love to go to more places though..

Just Namibia :(

Just Morocco

Hmmm...Only:

Lesotho, Swaziland, Mauritius, Kenya and Morocco...

Most of the rest of Africa i dont really wanna go to, besides:

Zambia for the Vic Falls.
Mozambique
Namibia for the Sand dunes
Egypt maybe.

oh god where do I begin? My job takes me all over africa so off the top of my head
angola/gabon/ghana/nigeria/kenya/moz/zambia/zimbabwe/namibia/botswana/ senegal/EG/swaziland/lesotho/tanzania/sudan/ivory coast/cameroon.
I give up now but I think thats just about it.

And my fave african countries? RSA/Botswana/Moz/Namibia/Kenya/Ghana in that order.

Have you been to Amsterdam ??Utrecht?Middelburg or Ermelo ? Or perhaps Amersfoort ??

I got relatives in Middelburg, Ermelo, Standerton, Trichard, baadplas & Bethal!
Amsterdam in SA? havent heard of it, Amersfoot heard of it, I think we drove through it.

I even stayed in a tiny town called Marble Hall!
we got some facisnating places in SA, u gotto know your country inside out before u venture out of it, thats my opinion anyway.

Amsterdam, Mpumalanga
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amsterdam is a small sheep farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Other than large sheep farms, there are large plantations of gum, pine and wattle trees in the area.

The area was set up as a republic in 1864 by a Scotsman Alexander McCorkindale who called it New Scotland and its capital Roburnia was established in 1881, named after the Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1882 Roburnia was renamed after Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

ah thanx for the info, will go see this place Amsterdam that was founded by a Scotsman!

how about hotazel or springbok durbsboi?

i almost got gangraped at the botswana border yesterday!
apparently your passport needs to get stamped....wtf?
i was shitting myself-one night in a hut with....
it just sounds painful

My job takes me all over africa so off the top of my head
angola/gabon/ghana/nigeria/kenya/moz/zambia/zimbabwe/namibia/botswana/ senegal/EG/swaziland/lesotho/tanzania/sudan/ivory coast/cameroon


Mike2000, I do hope that you have visited Côte d´ivoire before the "mad guy" ruined the country otherwise it must have been the shock of your life. Côte d´ivoire= worse than Zimbabwe but without the inflation!

Read this if you have time...:)

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=412009

The countries in Africa I have been to:

Nigeria
Côte d´ivoire
(lived for many years in both of the two countries and Nigerian blood partly flows through my veins, too)

visited:

Gabon
Senegal
Tunisia
Angola
Ghana (only very visit)
Togo
Benin
Egypt

So I still have a lot of countries to visit

high on my list are still in chronological order:) :


South Africa
Cape Verde
Kenya
Tanzania
Morocco
Réunion
Mauritius
Sao Tomé
Seychelles
Mali

sadly I visited this year and it was a very sad thing to see. You could still get glimpses of what it used to be like but on the whole it was a mess. I think Gabon is the new Ivory coast as that seems to be were a lot of the French ivorians moved to and a lot of the investment money that would have gone into ivory coast ended up. That article on the link sums the place up very well. Cheers for posting it.

sadly I visited this year and it was a very sad thing to see. You could still get glimpses of what it used to be like but on the whole it was a mess. I think Gabon is the new Ivory coast as that seems to be were a lot of the French ivorians moved to and a lot of the investment money that would have gone into ivory coast ended up. That article on the link sums the place up very well. Cheers for posting it.

Very well said, Côte d´ivoire is one of Africa´s saddest if not the saddest example of an African country´s downfall (considering from where the country came from). If you had visited the place in the 90´s (not to speak of the beautiful 70´s/80´s a period when my parents first came to Côte d´ivoire ), I am sure you would have liked it at that time! Today the whole place is just a faint shadow of its former self....and without being too pessimistic I think that Côte d´ivoire will continue to go down the doldrums...once French troops have left (which might be the case in the future), there will be another Congo or something like that over there:cry:

As far as the French Ivoirians are concerned, most have fully turned their back on Africa (they are bulging with anger and they are entirely disenchanted), a few thousands have left for countries such as Senegal and Gabon. Some have settled in Ghana or Mali, too! Less than 2000 French Ivoirians remain today down from around 100 000 when the old ruler was still there!!....even tens of thousands of Ivoirians, a lot of Lebanese (which helped a lot the country with their investment, too) and countless other African migrants have left their country in order to look for greener pastures elsewhere. ...but that "mad guy" (Mr. Gbagbo) still thinks he is the undisputed "King of Africa"....It is all so sad!!!!

:?

yes, the Cote D' ivoire's case is a sad case of a promising country and beacon of hope in Africa that has fallen. It really should serve to remind all of Africa of the threat that military coups pose to economic development in Africa. The leaders of such countries should be brought to book and made accountable for taking countries back to stone age or killing innocent people like Charles Taylor did in Liberia and Siera Leone.

I have only went to Swaziland and love it. I believe that the country have got potential and they stupid king must give way to the true democracy.

My plan is to visit the following in order of preference -
1. Mocambuque.
2. Mauritius.
3. Angola.
4. Nigeria.
5. Botswana.
6. Lesotho.
7. Namibia.
8. Senegal.
9. Cape Verde.

The common place to have been visited by you guys is LESOTHO so far. I am a Mosotho by I have never been to Lesotho, I'm the worst of all you guys.

Im going to be going to Adis Ababa next week, so 1 up for me :D

Guys, what would the travel time be from Durban to Kosi Bay/Ponta do Oura(Mozambique)???
Is it a malaria area ??

3-4 hours or so? Yes it is a malaria area.

Just one...

Guys, what would the travel time be from Durban to Kosi Bay/Ponta do Oura(Mozambique)???
Is it a malaria area ??

when they bite you, you better bite them back! ;)

Im going to be going to Adis Ababa next week, so 1 up for me :D

mozambique in january.:)

Mozambique is awesome, im sure 100% better than Addis, anyway, at least I'll be seeing another african country & have breakfast at the Sheraton

Leshoto, swaziland, Egypt, Morocco, libiya, Tunisia and going to Algeria in feb