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		<title>From Sharm to Cairo for a camel ride…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcel Koning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The highlight of this year&#8217;s trip to Egypt was Cairo! What an incredibly long and tiring day! But worth every minute of the tortuous journey. We were picked up at the hotel in Sharm el Sheikh at 1:00 am by a small bus (twenty seater) with 15 others. The only problem was that the little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bushbabies Monkey Sanctuary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Our Story&#8217; written by André Craye Since its official opening in April 2009, Bushbabies Monkey Sanctuary, located on the northern slopes of the Magaliesberg in Hartbeespoort, has widened its spectrum of primates to over 70 free-released specimens. We have been gratefully accepting public donations of monkeys and prosimians since the start, and are enthusiastically watching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching English at Bulungula</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penelope Sachs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago I went to teach English to the locals of a remote village in the  former Transkei. I was 54 and a tad old I thought to be having a mid-life crisis which symptoms included nothing more dramatic than a restlessness, a constant shifting about in the seat of my oh-so-comfortable existence. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelling blind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Many Roads to Rome&#8217; by Pasha Alden Whether globe trotting on a well earned break, or simply attending an important meeting it is safe to say that there are many ways to kill a cat or should the adage be adapted to read ‘Many roads to Rome? Despite the limitations brought about by blindness there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wildlife &#8211; African Elephants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>General Information</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only extant (living) species in the Order Proboscidae are the elephants. The order, however, includes a number of other now extinct species. The earliest record of a member in this group was a small pig-like creature called Moertherium. It lived in a swamp area in what is now modern day Egypt some 50 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wildlife &#8211; African Lions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>General Information</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lion has been one of the most talked about animals on the African plains, and not surprisingly has been the main topic of conversation around camp fires for thousands of years. The lion is the greatest of all the African cats, the largest in the world being the Asian tiger, and fortunately these cats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working with local Zulu communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Koning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February 2007, Janet Cuthbertson from Suni-Ridge Org. ZA (013-525 NPO) contacted us asking if we&#8217;d promote Leopard Walk Lodge in Zululand, KwaZulu Natal. At the end of the e-mail, there were a few paragraphs about how they rehabilated an old pineapple farm and gave it back to nature, forming a wildlife reserve. Among other things, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kawaza Basic School and Reforest Nsefu in Zambia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Authors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kawaza School Fund is a private fund started by Robin Pope Safaris in 1988 to assist in improvements at Kawaza Basic School, one of the local schools in the Nsefu Chiefdom. They sent us this article in the beginning of January 2008. Huge improvements have been made at Kawaza since this time and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Elephants Keep Their Ivory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 11:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Koning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As usual, elephants are on the agenda at the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP14), which will be held in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 3 to 15 June 2007. The 55th meeting of the CITES Standing Committe will be held on the 2nd of June 2007. This is a video message [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Breakaway To Hurghada (Red Sea) in Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Koning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our RYA sailing course was cancelled at the last minute, so we booked a last minute trip to Hurghada on the Red Sea in Egypt. We snorkelled, scuba dived, quad biked and visited Luxor including Valley of the Kings and Karnak Temple. This was the first &#8220;last-minute&#8221; all-in booking that we&#8217;ve made. And we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three weeks around the coast in S.A.</title>
		<link>http://toursandtales.com/three-week-trip-south-african-coast</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2001 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcel Koning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plan was simple. We wanted to see as much of the coastline of South Africa as possible, as we were emigrating to Europe. Having shipped our belongings, we closed the door of the house for the last time and handed over the keys to the new tenants. There was now no turning back and [...]]]></description>
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