On today’s #TravelTipTuesday I’m sharing an update on single use plastics, especially when traveling to Africa.
Below are the current African countries that ban single use plastic bags (garbage, shopping, zip loc bags): Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritania, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe.
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Have you ever visited a place you’ve dreamed of, only to be let down once you got there? I was ashamed to admit that Egypt and the Great Pyramids was one of those places for me. It’s one of the best kept secrets, how they photograph the Pyramids with expansive desert all around. What they don’t show you is facing the other direction is the city full of buildings and traffic edging right up to the Pyramids.
In some way I felt cheated and could not see the magnificence in these ancient structures. It could also be that I was leading a group on a work trip and was preoccupied with all the details. Either way Egypt was not what I had imagined.
I wanted to return so that I could experience it with my husband and what a difference a second trip made. We visited the Pyramids and I now saw them through different eyes. Seeing my husband stand against the massive blocks that make up the Pyramids I was in awe of their construction. We visited in the evening and it was magical sitting under stars, at the foot of the massive Sphinx and realizing how many layers of history have blanketed this site and yet it still stands, strong as ever.
Taking a peaceful cruise down the Nile, visiting temples and tombs it hit me what an honor and blessing it was to stand in these places and with my own eyes view thousands of years of history. These places are sacred and they are dwindling around the world.
I’m so glad I got a second chance to visit Egypt because I fell in love with it and would visit 100 more times.
Have you had a similar travel experience? I’d love to hear about it!
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