Belgium 1967, 1983

WE-67 - WESTERN EUROPE - West Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Netherlands 1967 - My first trip to Western Countries Date of travel: Aug 4 - Sep 1, 1967 ITINERARY: This trip was done mostly by train starting on Aug 4 in Czechoslovakia (Prague) and going to WEST GERMANY (Frankfurt on Main), continuing to BELGIUM for Aug 5 and 6 (Brussels, Ostend) and on ferry over the English Channel to UNITED KINGDOM from Aug 6 to Aug 15, beginning in England (Canterbury, London, Windsor Castle, Bournemouth, Stonehenge, Stratford, Coventry, Liverpool, Blackpool, Lake District, Carlisle). Between Aug 16 and 17 Northern Ireland (with Giant’s Causeway, Belfast) and Aug 18 to Aug 25 Scotland (Glasgow, climbing Ben Nevis, Loch Ness, Inverness, Perth and Edinburgh) and for Aug 26 through Aug 28 back to England (Cambridge, London). Then a ferry to NETHERLANDS where from Aug 29 through 31 (Rotterdam, wind mills, den Haag and Amsterdam). Back to WEST GERMANY on Sep 1 (Nurnberg) and Czechoslovakia (Prague). Travel company: No travel company used, but an invitation from England needed to get a Czechoslovakian government permit for travel to Western countries. We traveled mostly by train and slept in youth hostels. Who took part: I traveled with a childhood friend Frank Z. (Aramis). ---------------------------------------------------- AFR_83 - AFRICA TRIP Date of travel: Oct 5 - Oct 30, 1983 ITINERARY: Departure from San Diego Airport, flight to New York, where I boarded South African Airlines for flight via Cape Verde Islands (fuel stop) to SOUTH AFRICA (7 days: Johannesburg with a visit of a gold mine, Pretoria with its Voortrekker Monument, flight to Cape Town with Table Mountain and Cape of Good Hope, flight to Durban with trip to Zulu village), via Johannesburg flight to ZIMBABWE (2 days: via Bulawayo airport to Victoria Falls, flight to Harare), flight to KENYA (7 days: Nairobi with a trip to Masai village, by vans to Aberdare National Park, continuing to Nanyuki on the Equator and to famous Mt. Kenya Safari Club, where we spent a night, Lake Naivasha, to Masai Mara where we had animal runs and a flight in hot air balloon, back to Nairobi), flight to SAYCHELLES ISLANDS (1 day: bus tour of Mahe island), flight to TANZANIA (6 days: via Dar es Salaam to Arusha, by vans to Ngorongoro Crater, Olduvai Gorge, Serengeti National Park where game runs, Lake Manyara, Arusha) flight to RWANDA (only few hours in Kigali), flight via Nairobi to BELGIUM (1/2 a day in Brussels), flight via New York to San Diego. Travel office: Travelworld (though D&H Travel in Oceanside) Who took part: 16 travelers, leader from Travelworld and local guides