Nicholas

The Day I Won The Trip
Today on May 3, 2013 I won an all expenses paid trip to Africa in a computer Lego building contest! With money I won I bought a cool plane to fly to Africa that only runs on air power. So I packed up, drove to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, hopped on my plane and flew to Africa.

__** North Africa Egypt **__ Day 1: The first day I landed in Egypt at the Royal Serenade Airport, then I found a hotel in a brochure. I went to El Luxor Hotel because it looked nice, more like the western culture. When I was traveling to my hotel all I found was sand, sand, sand, and more sand. While I was resting, I read a book about the economy which is farming and the exports are raw cotton, cotton, yarn, and clothing. Now I would like to go to sleep, good night.

Day 2: From the El Luxor Hotel I rented a car and drove to the Sphinx. I spent hours there walking around it (I think it lost its nose :0 ). The weather here is so hot. Then I went to the Great Pyramid of Giza, man it's big, it's 455ft tall. I think I might go to Pyramid of Queens and Pyramid of Menkaure. Bye.

__** West Africa Ghana **__

Day 3: I just have flown in to Ghana. I am heading to Digya National Park to go look at the elephants. It was fun; they were bathing in the lake. There were drummers playing music at the park! Then I went back to the hotel to rest and to sleep. I did some reading before bed and there are 24 million people here in 92,456 square miles. It is the second in the world in growing cocoa bean. Many European countries fought to get the gold from Ghana.



Day 4: Today I'm heading to the to see the Fire Protection Engineering company because I wanted to see all the rescue vehicles they had and man they had a lot! Next, I will see one of their landmarks, The Independence Square Arch; it is a building in shape of an arch but it kind of looks like a McDonald's sign. Catch you later.



__** East Africa Tanzania **__ Day 5 and 6: I am flying into Julius Nyerere International Airport today, I am spending two days at the Ruaha National Park to go on a safari. I am going to see elephants, zebras, lions and more. This land is very hilly and the weather is very dry and hot. I talked to some people on the safari and found out 80% of the country works hard at farming and herding. media type="youtube" key="9R6te8ZeiV0" width="437" height="328" align="center"


 * __ Central Africa Congo or Republic of Congo __**

Day 7: The tropical forest of Congo has the highest density of western Gorillas in Africa. So I went on a tour with Luxury Safari Camps to look to the western gorillas to take a picture for Cian for him to look at. I walked over hills and crossed rivers, I found a western gorilla looking at me.



Day 8: When I was reading in Luxury Safari Camps I found out that Congo has been friends with the Soviet Union. It was a French colony, so most people speak French. Their industrial oil sector accounted for 85% of government revenue, and 92% of exports.

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