People I'm least concerned about:
"Violence in Kenya raises questions for those seeking safari trips"
- headline from the New York Times today.
American travelers were very concerned about the various tribal angers that seem to be boiling over as a result of a presidential election that was stolen and expressed solidarity with the oppressed of any nation at any time, as noted in the article below:
After seeing such images, Andrea Macari, a clinical psychologist from Great Neck, N.Y., rerouted her $30,000 two-week trip to Africa to avoid traveling in Kenya. Originally, Ms. Macari and her husband, Dylan Mitchell, were scheduled to use Nairobi as a jumping-off place to Rwanda for gorilla tracking before heading back to Kenya for a safari. Now the couple is bypassing Kenya completely by flying into Uganda, connecting to Rwanda and taking charter flights to get around. They have replaced their Kenyan safari with a stay at a tented camp in the Serengeti in Tanzania.
“I’m not going on a vacation to be anxious all the time for my safety,” said Ms. Macari, who departed for her trip without knowing if she would get a refund for the canceled Kenya safari.
Lisa Gramlich, a pediatric anesthesiologist from Chicago, who left for Kenya with three friends on Jan. 7, also took precautions. Two of the travelers who planned to take a public bus to Kilimanjaro will now fly there. And instead of shopping and sightseeing in Nairobi, Ms. Gramlich plans to stay on the grounds of her resort while she is in the capital. In a situation like this, she said, “the likelihood of becoming a victim of robbery or something becomes just a little more heightened.”
for the whole story go here.
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Well, whitey has this obsession with everything being "perfect". If it's not perfect, then it's completely ruined. So any little "interruption" scares whitey to bits. Note how Zimbabwe wasn't mentioned as an alternative - whitey wouldn't be happy if the alternative had issues too.
And is it just me, or does it seem like this article was written by the tour companies?
I've been reading up lately on the Animal Theme Park at Disneyworld. With a 5 year old, that is about all you can hope for. Perhaps these individuals would be better served by a similar trip. I mean, you can see Africa AND Asia and then take the monorail over for dinner at a restaurant in Epcot Paris. If you want you can ever round out your day with a massive shopping experience at the Japan Pavillion. It's just like actually being there without any of the third-world conflict or violence or uncleanliness or general uncouthness.
I guess this would be a bad time to mention that my American Library Association Midwinter Meeting experience was something less than perfect...
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