Glad to hear that your trip went well. Be aware though, if you are planning to go to Africa for the first time, that there are huge variations in hospitality and safety levels throughout the continent. Exactly like North America.
For a first time trip, you might enjoy it more if you picked two or three countries (not necessarily contiguous) to explore in detail, rather than trying to make a path across the continent. I recommend that your first country be English speaking if you are unilingual.
Ghana and/or Botswana, for example, are delightful places to poke around on your own. Kenya and South Africa are wonderful to visit as part of a tour group, but you would not last 24 hours in either one of them if you were there on your own.
[This message has been edited by PanEuropean (edited 11 January 2002).]
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