Kate Nickelchok
Heya folks! Welcome to my travel blog!
Warning: I am not much of a writer, have never had a blog, and failed miserably at any attempt to keep a diary in the past. This time, however, I really am going to try.
Whats new with me?? well.....
On January first of 2009 I will be leaving B.C. and beginning my African adventure. Two months, three West African countries; Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana.
Highlights
The Niger River travelling downstream from Mopti to Korioume (nearest port to Timbuktu) by riverboat, inches above the water surface brushing past bird-filled reed beds and herds of hippos
Timbuktu (Toubouctou)- exploring the mud structures, mosques and ancient libraries of the fabled city that has long stood as a metaphor for exotic, distant lands
Clubbing in Bamako and Mopti- Mali boasts one of the best music sceans in Africa
Festival Au Desert- Rocking out at the "most remote music festival in the world! " Journeys into the Saharan and tea with the Tuareg
Banfora's environs waterfalls and lakes. Climbing the dramtic domes and craggy summits of magnificent rock formations, all reached by moped along sandy tracks
Tiébélé deep in gourounsi country, the town is known for it's wonderful architecture and intricately painted houses
Nzulezo, Ghana Canoe trip through a lush jungle creak to the nzulezo community of stilt-house dwellers
Volunteering for 3 weeks in an orphanage/school outside Accra
Kakum National Park a three-hundred-metre rope walkway high up in the rainforest canopy.
Cape Coast Castles Impressive forts along ghana's coast, standing as a solemn reminder of the african slave trade
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"Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white." - Mark Jenkins
I want to hang a map of the world in my house then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've travelled to. But first I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down- mitch hedberg
