One such amazing experience is the stay at La Gazelle D’Or, which is amidst a fascinating stretch of bougainvillea gardens and absolutely fragrant citrus gardens. Lying very close to the very old city of Taroudant, this is a beautiful hotel here. With the suites and rooms completely air conditioned, there are balconies and terraces and private verandahs too.

The spa here gives good massages, and oil bath along with the body mask treatment for an absolutely traditional Morocco Hammam. With a lovely heated outdoor pool, and a beautiful hotel ambience, the clay tennis court is only an add on to the pleasures one enjoys here. Horse riding is also very common here.

There are grand pavilions, set around a grass garden with magnificent surroundings. The views from here are eye catching, the hotel by itself is a green paradise, and it feels you have come to another home outside home. There is a certain worldly charm about this place with the 33 suites and amazingly beautiful pavilions. Tours here are really worth a try. All these are found enconsced in the surroundings of flower covered walls, which belong to the stone cottages. With the Moroccan hand woven rugs and antiques absolutely decorated, the entire experience of coming to La Gazelle d’Or is enthralling. Add to this, the cozy log fires, and you have some spacious terraces and wonderfully constructed private terraces. It is a great place where you can come, relax, and enjoy a sumptuous breakfast.

Tourists coming here enjoy the lunch by the pool. Rose alleys here provide great visual delight and also the best sights of colorful butterflies.

Thus, tours to La Gazelle D’or are one of the best tours to North Africa.

This beautiful lake is a shallow, endorheic lake in this part of Africa and has great historical value. It provides water to many people living in and around the beautiful continent of Africa and is in fact the largest lake in Chad Basin.

With at least 179 kinds of species, there are many floating islands in the lake. There is a variety of wildlife here and tourists enjoy the simple ambience and the natural surroundings here. Migrating birds come here much to the delight of bird enthusiasts. The ruff, wintering ducks and shore birds and waterfowls are a common feature here. The rusty lark and the river prinia are two kinds of near endemic birds found here. The black crowned crane used to nest here earlier but now with the shrinking of the lake this has reduced. Fish move to a nearby lake rich in minerals to breed and to find food.

The lake has been shrinking majorly in the past few years and is an ecological catastrophe. The painted hunting dog has been reportedly found missing in the Lake Chad area. The Chad Game Reserve is a beautiful protected area here, which spans half the region next to the lake, which actually belongs to Nigeria.

With such beautiful sights and magnificent visual delights, Lake Chad is a wonderful water body in this part of Africa.

A major pilgrim spot with 13 churches, tourists coming here enjoy the ambience and get intrigued by the sight of the priests wearing impressive robes in vibrant colours. One of the holiest towns in Ethiopia, Lalibela was actually constructed to be the New Jerusalem. A rural town, this is world famous for its monolithic churches built while the King of Ethiopia reigned here. These churches were declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the year 1978. The churches are grouped into Northern, Western, and Eastern Africa. The Northern Group has the Bete Medhane Alem, which is said to be the largest monolithic church in the world. The Western Group has Bete Giyorgis, which is said to be the best church, and the most well preserved. The Eastern Group has the Bete Amanuel, which is linked to a holy bakery. There are many more churches in these groups all of which are popular across the world.

Well trained guides take you around the fascinating region and give you a good know how about the entire place. Churches are open from nine in the morning to one in the afternoon. Also see the Yimrehane Kristtos church and the Ashetan Maryam, which are possibly built in the eleventh century. All the churches here have been produced entirely by the interesting Ethiopian civilization.

While here, go to the weekly market, and see the invaluable local life and the weaving arts. The donkey park is also worth visiting in tours here.

Lalibela is a special religious destination, which should not be missed in tours to Ethiopia.

]]> http://www.travelafrica360.net/religious-experiences-at-lalibela-in-ethiopia.html/feed 0 http://www.travelafrica360.net/the-27th-annual-africa-in-april-cultural-awareness-festival.html http://www.travelafrica360.net/the-27th-annual-africa-in-april-cultural-awareness-festival.html#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:05:09 +0000 admin http://www.travelafrica360.net/?p=3304 The Republic of Senegal is hosting the 27th Annual Africa in April festival. It is a special event in tours to Africa. The categories for the festival are categorized . It mainly tries to bring together the dignitaries of Africa and its related ambassadors together. The Memphis Community is thus proud to have this celebration on a grand front and all the staff, the board the partners have been working day and night to make this get together a grand success.

There are two components for the festival this year. One is networking and the other is training. There are many workshops that have been set up for Diversity Awareness. This has been mainly designed to give information about the present trends in the diversity of suppliers. The community groups also participate in the diversity discussions as also the diversity professionals. The main center for these activities will be the International Trade Center.

There will be two sections basically, one to accommodate the corporate needs and the other to recreate the market that existed in Old Africa. The African World Bazaar will host many small vendors. The entire setting has been made to look like the traditional African souk.

The International Trade Floor will help to show the way to the corporates and also enhance relation building. All can join and attend the festival and understand the traditional values of this beautiful region called Africa.

This is the 27th anniversary of the Africa in April Festival. On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, it will be International Entrepreneur’s Day and this will be celebrated at the University of Memphis. April 18 is International Vendor’s Market Set up Day. On April 19, it would be senior citizen and Children’s Day. There will be an international diversity parade. On April 20, it would be health and wellness day. The last day or April 25 it will be wealth and health awareness drive.

The Africa in April Cultural Awareness Festival is an enlightening festival in Africa.

This sandstone cliff range extends from the southern part of Mali to the north east and stretches for at least 200 km. It goes up to the Grandamia massif. The Hombori Tondo is the highest peak of the escarpment and is located at Mali at a height of1, 115 metres. It has great archaeological, geological, and ethnological characteristics and is one of the most imposing sites in Western Africa.

When the Dogons arrived here, the Tellem, the cave dwellers of this area were thrown out. The Tellem legacy is very much a part of the Bandiagara escarpment. The cliffs carved out by them to bury the dead are seen here and there are many villages here on the cliff, the Kani Bonzon being one of them. The Dogons settled here sometime in the 14th century and latter on spread their settlements in the Seno Gondo plains too.

The Bandiagara Escarpment today has tours in the Dogon villages. There are a series of trails along the cliffs and the host villages get a lot of income from the tourists who visit here. Bandiagara Escarpment is also part of the World Monuments Watch since the year 2004.

Tours to Bandiagara Escarpment are very interesting and intriguing.

There are many places to visit here and out of these, some are popular. Zimbabwe is one such landmark in Southern African tours. Come here to the breadbasket of Africa and enjoy your tours here with cherishable tales.

Then you have many other places like Angola, Mauritius, and Seychelles, which are all great destinations to visit on tours. With Cape Town, Johannesburg, Gaborone, Lusaka, Harare, Maseru, Maputo, and Maun forming great towns to be explored, South African tours are filled with the best of tour experiences.

South Africa is also popular for the abundant kind of wildlife here. Visit the Chobe National park in Botswana and Etosha in Namibia and come back with a valuable travel kitty. The fish River Canyon Park in Namibia is another interesting place to visit. Then there is the Kruger National park, the Ilha de Mozambique and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is another beautiful verdant paradise. Then of course, you have the Okavango Delta in Botswana and the Victoria Falls in Zambia. This is a great travel destination and provides you with ideal tour delights.

With the Drakensberg Mountain providing the main landscape feature you also have the sights of the beautiful waterfalls and the most fascinating canyons. South Africa’s Kruger National park is surely a perfect paradise for any adventure enthusiast. Kruger is the best park with ate least Kruger has round two million hectares of land to graze on. The park has the lion, rhino, leopard, buffalo, and the elephant.

Then you have the Mana Pools National Park in South Africa adding on to the list of green stretches. This is a wild locale and all tourists love to come here and enjoy camping delights.  Kruger. The park also has views of most of the mammals, some amphibians, reptiles and many birds. There are at last 34 amphibians here alongwith 507 birds, 336 varieties of trees and 114 reptiles.

Then you have the beautiful scenery to enjoy the wildest adventures to bas in. Such is the pattern of tours here that people often come all the way to Southern Africa just to enjoy the wilderness here alongwith he simple and pleasant views.

With all this is in tow, it is not possible to miss coming to this part of South Africa on tours. With memorable experiences of safari tours and wildlife viewing and with glimpses of the tribal life here, travels are more enriching in such places. People come from everywhere to understand the tradition and culture that exists here and take back with theme a beautiful collection of travel memories.

Many of the games that have become popular in their online casino format can be found at Le Grand Casino La Mamounia. Casino table games like poker, blackjack, American roulette and mini Punto Banco are played at the tables in the casino. Some travelers planning to visit this casino while in Morocco have never played some of these games but would like to try them out. Sometimes it can be rather daunting being a newbie at a gaming table in a land based casino. Therefore, one of the best ways to learn prior to visiting the casino is to learn by playing at one of the many online casinos like JackpotCity These sites often provide tools to help new players learn the game.

Of the games offered at Le Grand Casino La Mamounia, many visitors are unfamiliar with mini Punto Banco. The mini variation of Punto Banco is basically a smaller, pared down version of the main game. The table is smaller, much like a blackjack table. The cards at the land based casino are dealt by a croupier while of course when playing at an online casino, the dealing is computerized. Players will find that mini Punto Banco also has smaller table minimums and maximums. This is a fun game to play and can easily be learned at an online casino prior to visiting Morocco.

Tourists come here to trek up the mountain summit and it is really worth if for the panoramic view that you get at the top of the mountain. The one day treks of climbing the Atlas Mountains and coming back to the town of Imlil is very popular amongst adventure enthusiasts here. However to get the full experience of scaling the mountains a three day trek is the best.  is around half an hour from Marrakech.

Forming a link between the Sahara Desert and the coast, the Atlas Mountains have dense forests of pine, cedar, oak, and cork. The tracts of pasture and the fertile valleys here really prove a great visual delight and this is one area where the livestock can feed well. There are lot of mineral deposits that have been left untouched and today you have a wide deposit of manganese, iron, zinc, phosphates, and antimony. One also gets a lot of silver and gold here alongwith a lot of petroleum reserves.

The Atlas Mountains traditionally have been said to be the Berber territory. With the best combinations of summits, traditional villages and valleys, the Atlas Mountains surely are one of the most beautiful regions in Morocco. As you meet new people on your trails and relax in the comfortable accommodations provided here, it is the best way you could actually enjoy the tours here to this part of Northern Africa with a lot of enjoyment, excitement, and enthusiasm.

Around five billion years ago, the main base of most of Africa was formed. These rocks are older than the Atlas Mountains in Africa. The Atlas Mountains has formed in three phases in the history of the Earth.

The first phase was formed in the Paleozoic era when there were lot of continental collisions. This is the time that North America, Africa, and Europe were connected.

Then the Anti Atlas Mountains were formed when America collided with Africa. These were actually a chain of mountains then and were a great challenge to the majestic Himalayan ranges. Today what we see of this chain is the Fall line in the eastern part of United States. There are some remains found in today’s Appalachians in the northern part of America.

The Mesozoic era saw another extension of the crust of the Earth that separated all the contents mentioned above. This formed most of today’s Atlas. Most of the rocks that are found in the Atlas range today actually originated from the bottom of the ocean.

Then in the Tertiary period, which is, around 1.8 million years ago, the mountain chains were brought up while Africa and Europe collided in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula.

The Atlas range is further divided into the Middle Atlas in Morocco, the Saharan Atlas in Algeria and the Tell Atlas and Aures Mountains in Algeria and Tunisia.

The Middle Atlas lies totally in Morocco and is the westernmost part of the range. The rivers Oum Er Rbia and Moulouya separate it and it spans an area of around 700 kilometres. The Riff Mountains are found in the northern part of the Middle Atlas and these Riff Mountains are said to be an extension of the Sierra Nevada.

Then you have the High Atlas in central Morocco, which is cut through by the Draa valley and is the place where the Berber people live in small villages. Here you have the Lalla Takerkoust, which is an artificial lake near Barrage Cavagnac.

The Anti Atlas is in the southwest of Morocco and has the Djebel Sarhro Mountains as the highest point.

The Saharan Atlas is the eastern part of the mighty mountain range. Here to we find many Berbers living.

The Tell Atlas is around 1500 kilometres in length and stretches from Morocco to Tunisia.

Then there are the Aures Mountains, which are the easternmost portion of the Atlas Mountains.

In this manner, tours here to the Atlas Mountains are filled with a lot of excitement joy and adventure.

AS the region is on the Central African Republic, and this is to the north of the equator the temperatures here are always 30 degrees centigrade. May until October is rainy and Bangui thus is hotter and wetter that many to the northern parts of the country.

Bangui is a local as well as administration area. Around four miles from Bangui, the airport is professional and manages everyone flights from here also go to Tripoli, Douala, and Tripoli.

There river is very near the city centre and aha s huge arch that is mainly for the presidential palace. there is also a central market that lies around 5 km further north. There are many places to see in Bangui. The Boganda Museum is very popular here and is a well organized place. it has many local musical instruments and also artifacts. The museum has cultural artifacts of pygmy. You can see the artisanal, the artistic works, and there are many paintings, carvings, bracelets and leather goods have been removed. Then you have the Perroni gallery, which is quite expensive but is necessary see here.

There is a waterfall here called the Chutes de Boali. A wonderful site this is perhaps one of the best waterfalls you would ever see. Rainy season is the ideal time to see this waterfall. Tourists coming here enjoy the sight of this beautiful water delight and go back with a valuable travel kitty.

Tribes are a mainstay of Africa and so a visit to Bangui would be incomplete without seeing the tribals here. Go the Lobaye region and enjoy the sight of the tribes here. Around 100 km from the city of Bangui, these tribals live in groups, and their huts are an attraction for the tourists. with the roof having leaves, the main body is made of liana creepers. Then you have the M’Baiki region, which is around 100 km to the southwest of Bangui. This is another beautiful locale filled with the best of natural ambience. Africa is filled with excitement, adventure, natural beauty, and enchanting locales. Visits here are thus always filled with a certain kind of unmistakable charm.

Go to Bouar where you would get the best of ancient rites of tribals. There are also burial mounds with megaliths, which are more than a thousand years old. The simple traditions of the people here and the cultural background that the regions here have are what make tours here greatly enchanting.

Bangassou is a place where you would get to see the lovely Kembe falls on the River Kotto. The sheer pleasure of the free flowing water gives you a sense of excitement and so you would surely enjoy the pleasures of this lovely region filled with the best of excitement and adventure.

The market place here is very interesting and is known by the name of Marche Central. A unique way of enjoying tours here is to visit this market place and enjoy the pleasures of shopping.

With so much to do and much more to enjoy, Bangui is surely a place worth visiting and is a region filled with ancient cultures and tradition. Come here and enjoy your tours to Middle Africa.

People come here to see the annual wildebeest migration, which is a major event there. It has been seen only y in the East Africa region. So come here and enjoy this special part before your tour here.

The Zanzibar diving Safari Experience is something that is truly spectacular. This is a place you can visit in the months of December to March. Here the temperature is warm and there are intermittent rains from early November to late March. The viewing of game is also a great experience here in the Zanzibar region.

In the months of April to June, the rains start in early April and then go on until June. But safaris during this time are still good into eh Serengeti, Masai Mara and Lake Manyara. This is not very costly and it provides for the travellers in this season coming to make the best of their times.

Then you have July to November when the season gives the best of travel delights and tour pleasures. This is a good time to travel here as the summer holidays start it his northern hemisphere. It is a very busy place so make sure there are bookings in advance.

Come here and experience the pleasures of Kilimanjaro, which is a great thing to seeing tours to Africa. Explore the options of safari and also get to see some often most fascinating bird species.

East Africa is a place where you have the best of drama unfolding here. See the wildebeest migration and enjoy the pleasures of this annual journey of many animals in the Tanzanian region in Serengeti. East Africa is a good place to visit and also a perfect lace to relax and enjoy.

With the best of surrounding and the ideal travel ambience tours to East Africa is not without amazement and surprises. Come here and enjoy a land filled a lot of questions, intrigue and curiosity. This is what goes to make a lovely travel spot. Come here and only the pleasures of a lovely land.

Come to the enchanting land of East Africa and bask in the pleasures of a land that is simply unbeatable.