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An adventure in Africa

30th June

Dear Aihua

How are you ?sorry I haven’t written for so long. I’ve been quite busy planning my holiday with my older brother. Colin. Do you still remember the trip I told you about ? I told you Colin and I would spend a few weeks traveling before he goes to university. Well. now we’re ready to go ! We’re going to visit so many exciting places and do lots of astonishing things. We will go to Africa first . I can’t wait! Have you been there

We leave London on 15the July. and we’ll be flying to Morocco. In northern Africa. We’re going to travel on camels throuth the Sahara Desert. It’s the biggest desert in the world-about the size of the US! I expect it will be very hot, dry and dusty there. We’ll be traveling by camel, with local guides ,camping in tents and sleeping on the ground in our big, thick sleeping bags. I’ve heard that we can see beautiful stars on clear nithts. I’ll bring a torch with me so that I’ll be able to see in the dark.The whole trip will take six days. That means I’ll have to sit on a camel for almost a week-how uncomfortable! I hope my camel likes me!

After the trip by camel. we’re going to travel down the River Nile. We’ll start at Lake Victoria. A little way down the river from Lake Victoria. the water actually gets quite rough. So ,we’ll go white-water rafting. It’s quite dangerous, but very exciting! You have to wear special clothing, a helmet and a life jacket, just in case your raft gets turned upside down or sinks .

After white-water rafting, we’re going on a trip to see wild animals in Kenya.We’ll live with the local people in their villages. and eat and drink whatever they do. Including cow’s blood! Do you think I should drink it ?

Since we’ll be walking every day for almost two weeks. I’ll need to buy a large, strong, light backpack to carry my supplies of food and water. During the day. we’ll walk across the land. following the footprints of big animals such as elephants, lions and giraffes. We’ll try to get as close as possible to the animals. even though they’re dangerous. So that I can take some really good photos. But don’t worry about me-our guides will have guns with them to scare the animals away if they come too close. I really want to see an elephant up close. Colin wants to see a giraffe.

After that , we’ll be moving on to Tanzania, where we’re going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Mountain climbing can be very tiring, and many people feel sick as the air gets thinner, so Colin and I will make sure that we will get enough rest after sunset.

The African part of our trip will take about four weeks. Then we’re going to the Himalayas.

I’ll send you postcards from all the different places we visit!

Love,

Toby