Lee Abbamonte
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Darfur
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As many of you know, I am very interested in the situation in Darfur and have given to the charity at savedarfur.org in the past and closely monitor what happens over there. I just felt that I wanted to bring it to light on my site and give everyone some background information on it because it’s a problem that isn’t going away and I also feel that most people don’t even understand whats actually happening over there. Here is a great piece on the background of the situation in Darfur from their website. I hope you all will take the time to read it because it’s important.
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Climbing Table Mountain
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Table Mountain looms over Capetown, South Africa like a mother elephant looms over her young in the African wild to protect and watch over them. It is a truly awe-inspiring sight that can be seen from anywhere in Cape Town like a beacon guiding you home. It is a large and impressive, perfectly placed tabletop mountain directly in the center of the city which thrives below it. At night, it is lit up for all to see. The night and the light lend a mysterious, “gotham” quality to its already awesome plateau-like appearance. Although it is just a big rock above a beautiful oceanside city, it is impossible to take your eyes off its majesty.
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The Sinai Peninsula
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The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is a triangle-shaped peninsula in Egypt. Sinai is the part of Egypt that lies in Asia. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north), Red Sea (to the south), and the Gulf of Aqaba (to the east) forming a land bridge to Southwest Asia. It falls between Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia and is well connected to all of them. Its area is about 60,000 km². It is world renowned for its amazing diving and snorkeling and is visited by millions (mostly Europeans and Israelis) annually.
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World’s Highest Bungy Jump
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The world’s highest bungy jump beckoned my name from the instant I heard about its towering height, 216 meters (710 feet). It’s location was far from close to anywhere, but the distance would not stop me from conquering the crown jewel of an adrenaline junkie’s resume. This past January my two friends and I set out to face adrenaline and conquer all our biggest fears; taking the ultimate leap of faith off the Bloukrans River Bridge in the heart of South Africa’s beautiful garden route.
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The Sands of Time
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The Sahara Desert occupies the vast majority of North Africa stretching from the Red Sea and Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean. The Sahara, “The Great Desert”, is the world’s largest hot desert, and second largest desert after Antarctica. At over 9,000,000 square kilometres, it is almost as large as the United States, and is larger than Australia. I had previously seen the Desert in Egypt but my recent trip to Merzouga in Eastern Morocco showed me a Sahara of mythical proportions.
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TCC Int’l Meeting Speaker
By Lee | 3 Comments » I have been selected to be a speaker at the Travelers Century Club International Meeting in London October 26-28. I am very excited about the opportunity and I will be presenting on my summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and the rest of Tanzania. Here is our Kilimanjaro Youtube slideshow which is permanent on my site but I thought I’d repost it again. To view it with the music, click it twice so the Youtube page pops up-I don’t know why this happens.
Somali Refugees in Switzerland
By Lee | 6 Comments » Last September, my friend and I were flying from Dar es Salaam to Zurich on Swissair with a stopover in Nairobi. There were literally 15 people on the first leg from Dar to Nairobi and we were pretty psyched because we could stretch out and sleep in peace. We were hoping not too many people would join us in Nairobi. That didn’t happen.
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Aït Benhaddou
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Aït Benhaddou is a fortified city along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech in present-day Morocco. It is situated in Souss-Massa-Draâ on a hill along the Ouarzazate River and has some beautiful examples of kasbahs. Most of the town’s inhabitants now live in a more modern village at the other side of the river; ten families however still live within the kasbah.
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Ceuta, Spanish Morocco
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Ceuta is a Spanish exclave in North Africa, located on the Mediterranean, on the southern coast of the Strait of Gibraltar. Captured by Portugal in 1415 and ceded to Spain in 1668, Ceuta is claimed by Morocco, which also claims other posts of Spanish sovereignty such as Melilla and some small islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The area of Ceuta is approximately 28 km².
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Laayoune, Western Sahara
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Western Sahara is a territory of northwestern Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west. It is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly consisting of desert flatlands. The largest city, and capital, is El Aaiún (Laâyoune), which is home to over half of the population of the territory. Western Sahara has been on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories since the 1960s when it was a Spanish colony.
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