There’s nothing like a milestone birthday to get you thinking about bucket lists. That’s why I decided, after years of procrastinating, to turn a decades-long dream into reality. And so on a gray Vancouver day, I booked a safari to Sub-Saharan Africa. Though my will wavered at the $9K price tag, I knew the journey would be worth a wealth of memories.
I chose Goway’s East Africa Explorer, a 12-day tour through Kenya and Tanzania that includes luxe lodging, all meals and stops at such fabled locales as the Great Rift Valley, Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti.
Armed with a two-week supply of anti-malaria tablets, I touched down in Nairobi, Kenya, after an 18-hour flight via Amsterdam. As I stepped onto the tarmac at Jomo Kenyatta Airport, I recalled reading that Africa is said to have a distinctive scent, an aroma unlike anywhere else on Earth. Testing the theory, I drew in a lungful of the humid air. It was tinged with an exotic aroma, one similar to roasted coffee beans – rich, spicy, earthy.
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