Africa

	Welcome to Africa & Middle East page. Here are some tanalising snippets of available articles, all of which can be tailored to your requirements. Email for more information about these and other destinations/story angles or forthcoming adventures. ETHIOPIA High Stepping in the Simien Mountains Deeply ingrained with dirt, the tiny hand inches forward, then jerks back, as the youngster steels himself to shake my paler but not much cleaner hand. He takes a steadying breath and reaches out again. Brushes my fingers with his. Smells my scent on his skin. A white woman. Perhaps the first he has seen in his short life... In St George's Footsteps - Lalibela Long before our guide identifies the holes in the wall as hoof prints, Lalibela has captured my imagination. For here, women grind grain with stones on stones while husbands and sons sell Pepsi and Kodak film to travellers come to see eleven rock-hewn churches... EGYPT Recumbant on the Nile More distinguished parties have embarked in the shadow of Aswan's Cataract Hotel - Peter Ustinov and Bette Davis walked a gangplank to a Death on the Nile - but none is more enthusiastic. After two days battling Cairo's heat, dust and traffic, and two more exploring Upper Egypt, my companions and I are eager for days and nights under sail on a felucca. Go to Top of Page