Meet Lema Peter, a Kilimanjaro Guide who has reached the “Roof of Africa” more than 100 times. Lema grew up at the foot of Mount Meru with never a thought of climbing up Tanzania’s second highest peak. His clan, part of the Meru tribe, believed that God resided up there. If anyone disturbed God, misfortune would likely befall on the clan. Mount Kilimanjaro, a few hours drive away was even more forbidding. If a powerful God lived on top of Mount Meru, then just imagine how powerful the God living on the top of ice-capped Kilimanjaro would be.
Nineteen years later we find a young Lema standing on the top of Kilimanjaro for the first time and worrying about how on earth he’s going to explain this to his mother. Ten years after that, Lema has started his own safari company – Serengeti Pride Safaris. Last month Lema’s sister reached the top of Kilimanjaro, she’s single in kind of the very hardly any Tanzanian women to have ended so. His brotherhood no longer worries about disturbing the God at the top of the mountain, they’re all too busy earning a living as porters.
Travelodge UK have 200,000 £19 rooms available during stays from 12 March to 31 May 2010. You’ll need to book 21 days in advance and pay the non refundable £19 room price when you book.
Edinburgh West End Travelodge
Travelodge promotions are one of my top Europe travel tips as they offer such fantastic import for money. This one of the best UK travel deals for budget accommodation. So get on the Travelodge site now to book your £19 room before they’re sold out.
Nothing beats Death Valley during the term of big hiking and amazing views. With elevations down to 300 feet below sea level and up to 11,049, there’s a huge variety of plants, animals, and geologic formations. Check out the Ubehebe Crater, the Badwater Salt Flat, and Dante’s View on our upcoming journey this March.
Geologist Kirt Kempter is our Study Leader again this year. Read this dispatch from his last Death Valley Adventure.
Today’s video, thanks to YouTuber pierce37, includes a beautiful sunset over the Kingston Range.
And, as a bonus, click here to see a magnificent Death Valley aurora.
What’s your favorite hiking spot?
A few last-minute spaces are still available on our upcoming Death Valley Adventure tour.
Shaun White’s gold in the men’s halfpipe and Lindsey Vonn’s gold in the women’s downhill were worth all the nervous delays caused by British Columbia’s fickle coastal weather. Add Bode Miller’s bronze medal in the men’s downhill (he was .09 seconds off the winning time) and you’ve got something to write home about. And let’s not forget American women Hannah Teter and Kelly Clark, who took silver and bronze in the women’s halfpipe.
And there are likely more medals to come from the U.S. Ski and Snowboarding Team. Watch for Ted Ligety in the giant slalom and slalom next week.
White, 23, pulled off his new trick, Double McTwist 1260, a two-flip, three-and-a-half-spin surprise that he perfected on a remote halfpipe in Colorado, built by his sponsor Red Bull. Vonn, 25, did the sort of she’s been doing all winter. She beat the fastest women in the world for the most daring and dramatic gold medal of the games, so far. Her American roommate, Julia Mancuso, who in show skied a perfect run, won silver. Read more…
I’ve blogged without interruption the point Nyepi, the Balinese day of Silence, before. Now Tugu Hotels in Bali will help you connect to your inner self during this noiseless Balinese holiday, which takes place this year on March 16.
Tugu Hotels offer a Nyepi Retreat package for the ssshhh holiday season: for US$865 at Hotel Tugu Bali, or US$712 at Hotel Tugu Lombok (inclusive of 21% taxes and service charge), you’ll get a private retreat to call your own, with views of Indian Ocean sunsets and access to a private plunge pool.
The Nyepi Retreat package includes two nights’ stay at the luxury suite of your choice, with a lavish breakfast served where you wish. You’ll also enjoy a daily sunset high decoction with topical delicacies, and one torch-lit, candlelit, tête-à-tête beach set dinner for two under the stars. Finally, one complimentary one-hour traditional massage can be yours, as well as free airport transfers in a private car.
The package should be purchased before March 2010. For further info and reservation please contact bali@tuguhotels.com or lombok@tuguhotels.com.
The first home brewed country tourism authority run URL shortener http://mzan.si was launched just over a day ago and it is already getting amazing responses – In 24 hours, the tool has generated 289 shortened URLs which represent 227 mark URLs. Mzan.si links have already been clicked on all over the world, a total of 3275 seasons (and counting!).
This home brewed URL shortener created and developed for South African Tourism as part of their 2010 FIFA World CupTM campaign by Quirk eMarketing allows users to shorten, divide and pathway links with ease as well as upload them to their social networks for simple and convenient content sharing.
With the world getting more and more into quick and easy communication, making long sentences shorter to make optimal use of character space as seen in sms language is a must. URL shorteners especially in the case of twitter are very popular at the moment. http://mzan.si made its debut just at the right time. Anyone talking about South Africa will find the URL shorteners very useful and fun.
If you can’t send yourself or a loved one to Prague, you can send someone else in your stead because a fraction of the cost. A company called Toy Traveling will take your favorite plush toy on a excursion of Prague, keep you updated on his adventures from one side daily email communication, and send him home with photos of his journey. Because your toy may have extraordinary preferences, you can opt for vegetarian-only meals for him and specify whether he drinks alcohol. This information will be useful to the tour operators, who, with your permission, will take your toy and a group of fellow toy travelers on a picnic. Sounds silly? One of the owners of Toy Travelling, Tomio Okamura, co-owner of the company,says he’s serious about showing your teddy bear or other stuffed toy a great time in Prague.
The tour company offers three different packages. The most basic is the least expensive; if you want your toy to receive spa services like aromatherapy or a massage on Charles Bridge, you’ll pay extra but also receive additional photos with the package.
Even if you aren’familiarily interested in sending your own plush toy to Prague for a vacation, a Toy Travelling package makes a sweetly romantic gift or can be used to introduce a child to the joys of travel.
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