Chance are when you think ‘tent’ you aren’t thinking of the tents at this fantastic camp in South Africa’s Krüger National Park. Run by CCAfrica (‘Conservation Corporation Africa’), Ngala is typical of the firm’s high-end safari facilities.
Archive for September, 2007
Two Hippos Make an Island: this is the *bush*? (South Africa’s Ngala Tented Safari Camp)
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Two Hippos Make an Island: like carrying sunshine in a bottle (South Africa’s Federal Air)
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When you need to tool around South Africa’s larger distances, say, en route to or from one of the country’s stunning national parks, you’re likely to end up on Federal Air. Young, sunburnt pilots also load the bags, provide sack lunches, and give the security talk. They remind one of Israel, where teenagers and those [...]
Africa’s main airline player: South African Airways
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It’s not Singapore Airlines, but South Africa’s emergence in its democratic period as the muscular economic strongman of Africa has led to improvements in its flag carrier as well. There are plenty of routes to Europe, North America, and of course across Africa. Although the experience could not be mistaken for five-star, I’ve always received [...]
Two Hippos Make an Island: sick in Costa Rica? Go to the Hospital Clínica Bíblica
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Costa Rica has a public-private dual system of health care. As in most countries that employ this model, you do not want to get caught as a visitor in the public system when you’re ill.
Two Hippos Make an Island: paying to pee in Great Britain
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You heard it here first. The quiet little secret at the heart of the ‘special relationship’ that binds together the UK and the USA to the consternation of the rest of the world is not what you think. It actually comes down to this: clean bathrooms (a.k.a. ‘loos’).
Two Hippos Make an Island: affording Hong Kong
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The first time you tell your traveling companion that you’ll be staying ‘at the Y in Hong Kong’, you’ll have to defend yourself against the assumption that you’ll be sleeping under a bench in a locker room that smells like someone’s sweat. Believe me, this is not your father’s YMCA.
Two Hippos Make an Island: Sao Paulo, Brazil, American Express lounge in GRU Airport
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The American Express lounge is a small ray of light in the otherwise death-mongering suffocation that is GRU at night, when you may be unfortunate enough to have your plane arrive. All the more reason for frequent travelers to get that American Express Platinum card or a PriorityPass membership.
guajiro y carretero: Buena Vista Social Club
Posted in reseña, tagged Cuban music, Latin music, music on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The best thing about Buena Vista Social Club and its musicians is that they are representative. A large, active Cuban musical tradition, of which BVSC is one example, thrives in the hotels and halls of Havana, Camaguey, Santiago de Cuba, and the like. What has happened here is a marketing coup that ought to be [...]
*that* was a hill … ‘: Hamburger Hill (DVD)
Posted in reseña, tagged film, reseña, Vietnam War, war movies on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The most startling aspect of this gripping account of the 101st Airborne’s assault on Hill 937 is that this was not even the bloodiest battle fought by the 101st in Vietnam. That one took place at Dat To and produced more than five times the U.S. casualties, occasioning the throw-away parenthesis of one of Hill’s [...]
great expectations: Ephesians 1
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Ephesians, textures on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Were Paul the misanthropic curmudgeon he is often taken for, we would not have lines like this: In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will, so that we, who were the first to set our hope [...]
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