28th August
2010
On the first day, arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi Kenya from your home country. You will be met by a tour guide of your choice company who will direct you to an already booked hotel where you will have meals and spend the night. On the second day after breakfast the guide will pick you up from the hotel and drive to Namanga which is the Kenya Tanzania border. After all the formalities, you will be directed by another guide, a Tanzania representative of the tour company ...Read the rest of this entry »
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26th August
2010
Vilaflor in Tenerife is the ideal place for visitors who are looking to take advantage of the many walking trails. We have brought you just 3 of the trails ]which range in length from 2 to 5 hours] which you can walk along whilst on your Vilaflor holidays.1. Camino del Pilón : 2 Hour Trail [Length 3,200m and of low difficulty] - This is a cleft which runs through pines, villages and terraces.During the walk, you will have the opportunity to see typical farmhouses and traditional farmland ...Read the rest of this entry »
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25th August
2010
Also known as the Spice Island, the Island of Zanzibar is located in the Indian Ocean forty kilometers off the coast of East Africa. It is called the Spice Island due to its export of cloves and other known spices. Explorers such as Speke, Livingstone, Burton and Vasco Da Gamma were the earliest visitors to the Island. This island is very historical. The people who passed enroute to India left their legacy behind. These include the Summarians, Egyptians, Indians, Chinese, Persians, Arabs and ...Read the rest of this entry »
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23rd August
2010
It was nicknamed the 'Land of a Thousand Hills' in the colonial times. This was because of its rolling mountainous landscape. After it became independent, it shot to fame as the home for gorilla trekking. It was an adopted home for the rare mountain gorilla and its most important refuge. In the 1980s Rwanda was a very famous tourist attraction centre. It has a booming tourist industry that greatly boosted the economy of the State. The premier attraction was gorilla tracking in the Virungas. ...Read the rest of this entry »
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22nd August
2010
Microsoft Outlook is the most widely used email client in the world. Mostly, the application is used by an organisation to manage to emails exchanged within. The client, due to the massive amount of email accounts, has to run on the Microsoft Exchange Server or the Microsoft Sharepoint Server. All the data which is transferred, received or maintained on the client is stored on the PST file or the Personal Storage Table file. This makes accessing the data much more easier, apart from making it ...
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22nd August
2010
On the first day, you will arrive at the Kigali where a tour guide of your company of choice will take you to an already booked hotel in the city. You will have dinner either in the hotel or at a local restaurant in the vicinity. On the second day, you will have an early start for your drive north. You will be at Ruhengeri for your first day of gorilla tracking. You will have lunch in the mountain gorillas' nest and thereafter an afternoon of leisure in the wild as you interact with these huge ...Read the rest of this entry »
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20th August
2010
On the first day, you will arrive at the Cairo International Airport where a tour guide will pick you from. He will assist you with all the customs and migration procedures. You will be taken to the Royal Meridien Le Caire Hotel which is a 5-star hotel or one close to its standard. You will use a modern air-conditioned coach to the hotel. You will check in at the hotel where you will have meals and spend the night. In the morning on the second day, you will have a buffet breakfast at the same ...Read the rest of this entry »
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17th August
2010
Kenya is located in East Africa. It borders Indian Ocean to the east, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, Sudan to the northwest and Ethiopia to the north. The equator passes through it and almost divides the country to two equal halves. It covers approximately 582,600 square kilometers. The population of Kenya is about 30 million. The Aids epidemic has greatly affected the population though it is stabilizing now with the introduction of Arts. Kenya has a large ...Read the rest of this entry »
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7th August
2010
Kenya is made up of about forty tribes. Though the major groups are about 13 and the rest smaller groups, there are about 61 different languages spoken in the country. The majority of Kenyans are Bantu speakers and they include the Kikuyu, Kamba, Kisii, Luhya and other smaller groups. The Nilotic speakers include the Masaai, Luo and the Kalenjin. The Hamitic speakers are the Turkana, Rendille, and the Samburu. The Hamitic speakers are the smallest group and live on the marginal areas of the ...Read the rest of this entry »
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5th August
2010
Kenya believes in doing things as a community. This is called the 'Harambee' spirit. 'Harambee' means pulling together. This defines how the people look at each other. Ones problems are not his alone but the communities. You will see people coming together to raise funds for someone in need and helping those who have lost loved ones cater for medical bills and other needs that may arise. A child is said to belong to the community and it is not hard to see somebody disciplining a child he does ...Read the rest of this entry »
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3rd August
2010
The extended family is the basis of the social structure in any Kenyan community. This is made up of relatives and friends from both the husband and wife's side. It is not uncommon to find a nuclear family living with the extended family in the same compound. Most men when they marry, move the new family just a few yards away from there parent's home. When the parents of the man get old, they come to live with him and his family. There is always a group to turn to in times of problems. The ...Read the rest of this entry »
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2nd August
2010
The most common greeting is the handshake. Depending on the relationship you have with the other person, the handshake will differ. For a close friend, the handshake is very firm and might be prolonged. For a casual acquaintance, the handshake is not prolonged. When greeting someone older than you or some dignitary, you are supposed to grasp the right wrist with the left hand and you might bend a bit to show respect to the person. Female friends may hug and kiss on each cheek but for men, this ...Read the rest of this entry »
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