Welcome to "Out of Africa - Too"  My Safari in and out of Africa

Take an African Safari (Journey) in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and South Sudan - This year Experience Africa, by visiting Africa and writing your own "Out of Africa - Too" Story.

Habari (Hello) from "Out of Africa - Too."  Enjoy my African (Safari) Journey, my journeys in and out of Africa, focusing on East Africa, especially the  countries of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda. This site is about the scenic wonders and the abundant wildlife, but also on the heart of Africa, its people which is the true "Out of Africa."  This Out of Africa site is filled with stories and pictures of life in Africa and the wonders of this continent.  It is also about African encounters, impressions and insights from the perspective of a muzungu (mzungu in Swahili) (westerner). 

"Out of Africa-Too" is a different site where you find information on Africa, personal insights, a look at Africa children in pictures and accounts, its women and some of their stories, what life in Africa is like through my eyes, find pictures of life in East Africa, have an opportunity to view its scenery and wildlife and even explore the possibility of your own Safari in Africa with "Experience Uganda Safaris.  There are opportunities for you to help African children break the cycle of poverty through to sponsorship of a child in Uganda.  There is also an African Decor section, a life in Africa Section, an African Directory, lots of pictures, the African Insights Monthly Newsletter , a Travel in Africa section, over 525 web pages in all.

This site is more than giving you information regarding East Africa, it was created to evoke a hunger within Westerners to come and create their own "Out of Africa experience".  Most visitors to Africa and to Uganda in particular are short term volunteers to come to Africa to work on a project of some kind in villages, schools, hospitals, or building a home in a slum for a two week to 3 week period.  In Uganda only about 1/3 of all visitors are holiday visitors to Uganda.  This means that if want to take a Safari into one of the National Game Parks, Wildlife Reserves, or climbing Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains, or take a wild ride, rafting down the Nile, it is unlike other African countries with its crowds in wildlife parks, Uganda is the true Pearl of Africa and it is awaiting to be explored and experienced by you.

There is the spectacular natural settings and wildlife of Africa.  The animals in the plains such as in the Maasai Mara in Kenya, the beaches of Mombasa or Malindi, the Rift Valley, Queen Elizabeth Park in Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest with its gorillas, the source of the Nile, Lake Victoria, Kibale Forest with its chimpanzees, Murchison Falls in Uganda, all the natural wonders of Africa.  There is lots to take in; from the splendor of the Rwenzori Mountains with its snow capped peaks to the hot Springs at Semiliki. 

Yet there is however much more, the people of Africa, which is the real heart of Africa, they never sit down with the African who struggles, dreams, works hard and lives a different life than the visitor to Africa.  "Out of Africa - Too" is a collection of stories, that make the real Africa, its people, alive.  It is filled with encounters, observations, insights from Out of Africa that make the heart and soul of Africa real and it is not the "Heart of Darkness of Joseph Conrad,"  but one that is filled with the equatorial sun awaiting another day with hope and dreams of a better tomorrow.  The real Africa is not that of Karen Blixen's (Out of Africa Book) or the movie version with Meryl Streep where Africa is a mere backdrop to a story. The real Africa is the story of its people with a zest for life, a sense of humor, people who struggle for a better life in spite of all the odds against them.  Africa, the neglected continent is stirring and moving, growing and becoming - Africa is awakening and thirsting for "Uhuru - for Freedom" at every level of society and if you desire to visit Africa it is best to embark on a Safari that touches the natural wonders and wildlife along with the people of Africa.

Wherever one goes you are greeted in the warmest of fashion, "You are most Welcome." The "welcome" is genuine and soon one is seated in a humble home, eating, conversing and feeling part of the family, Africa became my home, the people my friends, I even began to think like Africans causing them to chuckle, calling me a "Mudagavu," an African. I was no longer a "Mzungu," a Westerner but an African. I loved sitting in one of the local restaurants talking of yesterday, tomorrow and today until late at night . Laughing and joking, poking fun at oneself and experiencing Africa not as a tourist, not as a foreigner, not as a white person, but as one who has come home.

The hustle and bustle of the markets leaves one literally exhilarated, the age old ritual of bargaining is a delight, lunch in an open air restaurant, people freely joining you at your table and asking "How has your day been?" I love the cities of Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda, Kigali, Rwanda, all reflective of the people who lived in them and in each one of them I feel at home.

These pages reflect the parts of Africa that I have experienced - It is my "Out of Africa - Too".  They are my observation, my insights, my African Impressions, my personal African Safari. This is my Safari (journey) into places like Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan. I hope that it will inspire you to take your journey, your African safari to this wonderful place called Mother Africa.

Hopefully you will enjoy what you find here and that it will give you a glimpse of Africa.  Enjoy "Out of Africa - Too" and Kwaheri for now (Good Bye) but hopefully we will say a lot of Jambo's (Hello's). Do take the time to drop me a line after visiting  my personal East African - Ugandan Journey or Safari and thank you or as we say in Swahili "Asante Sana" or in Luganda "Mweraba"... and when you are here, you too can write your own "Out of Africa-Too Story" and maybe create your own website about Africa...jon