20 Inspirational Travel Quotes

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Elica Sue on the WILDJUNKET blog (http://www.wildjunket.com/)

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1. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.  – St. Augustine
2. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.  – Martin Buber
3. The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
4. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli
5. When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.  – Clinton Fadiman

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6. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley
7. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson
8. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – James A. Michener
9. Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. – Anais Nin
10. He who would travel happily must travel light. – Antoine de St. Exupery

11. Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. – Anne Sophie Swetchine
12. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson
13. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
14. I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. – Diane von Furstenberg
15. What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do, especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. – William Least Heat Moon

 

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16. The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. – Amelia E. Barr
17. Own only what you can carry with you; Let your memory be your travel bag. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
18. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius
19. Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be right and only way. – Ralph Crawshaw
20. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. – Bill Bryson

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Alexandria in Egypt: The Historical City of Arts & Learning

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Egypt: On this day in 1799 the Rosetta Stone was found

On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V, in the second century B.C. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been "dead" for nearly 2,000 years.



When Napoleon, an emperor known for his enlightened view of education, art and culture, invaded Egypt in 1798, he took along a group of scholars and told them to seize all important cultural artifacts for France. Pierre Bouchard, one of Napoleon's soldiers, was aware of this order when he found the basalt stone, which was almost four feet long and two-and-a-half feet wide, at a fort near Rosetta. When the British defeated Napoleon in 1801, they took possession of the Rosetta Stone.

Several scholars, including Englishman Thomas Young made progress with the initial hieroglyphics analysis of the Rosetta Stone. French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-1832), who had taught himself ancient languages, ultimately cracked the code and deciphered the hieroglyphics using his knowledge of Greek as a guide. Hieroglyphics used pictures to represent objects, sounds and groups of sounds. Once the Rosetta Stone inscriptions were translated, the language and culture of ancient Egypt was suddenly open to scientists as never before.

The Rosetta Stone has been housed at the British Museum in London since 1802, except for a brief period during World War I. At that time, museum officials moved it to a separate underground location, along with other irreplaceable items from the museum's collection, to protect it from the threat of bombs.

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Taken from: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rosetta-stone-found [19.07.2012]

Jambo, Karibu Kenya

 Text & Pictures by Melinda Stevens

Jambo, Karibu Kenya. Three words you will hear from every person you greet, three words you hear the minute you get off your flight, three words you will never forget. 

When I was told I would be going on a 10 day trip to see the highlights of Kenya I could not believe that I was the lucky one chosen to do this trip. 

Our trip started with one night in Nairobi, as im sure most of you would be, I was nervous as to what to expect. Nairobi is a lot of what I expected, bad traffic, congested roads and lots of people. In saying this, Nairobi wouldn’t be Nairobi if it didn’t have all of this, this is what they are accustomed to, this is their every day life and they love and accept it, I did not meet one local who could say to me they didn’t enjoy the hustle and bustle of their city. 

 
We then had a quick one hour flight to Mombasa, where we were greeted with a friendly cultural dance. Our one night stay at Sarova Whitesands was an amazing experience; they put together a private beach barbecue for the 9 of us. With hand woven straw hats and carved out coconuts to drink from, we partied the night away singing karaoke!! 

Our next stop was the Tsavo west Nationalpark, a four hour drive from Mombasa and well worth the visit. It is home to the red Elephants, they are red because they dust themselves with the red dust found in the park. 

The next part of our journey was a six hour drive from Nairobi to Shaba National reserve. Possibly one of my favorite places. Samburu is home to the reticulated Giraffe and the Gerenuk. The Gerenuk is one of my new favorite animals, it looks like an Impala, but smaller, and when they eat they stand on their back legs to reach the leaves of the tree. We also saw the Grevy’s Zebra, also only found in Samburu region, its stripes are much closer together and much prettier than our normal Zebra. 

 

After spending two wonderful nights at Shaba we made our way on a 6 hour drive to Lake Nakuru, where if you are in season, get to see thousands of pink flamingos. Unfortunately by the time we got there they had already migrated, but we still got to see plenty of pelicans littered across the banks of the lake. Here you get to see views of the lake, views you have never seen before. We also got the chance to see huge herds of Zebra and Buffalo. 

After our night at Lake Nakuru we got ready for the 6 hour drive to the Masai Mara, a part of the trip I had been really looking forward to and it definitely didn’t disappoint. 

I had so many expectations of the Masai Mara and every expectation was met, if not exceeded. We saw Leopard, a lioness and her cub feeding on a recent Zebra kill, Cheetah jumping on the Safari vehicle parked next to us, and a pack of about 13 Lioness, we also had a very anxious moment by being nearly chased by a very angry mommy Elephant looking out for her barely three day old baby, we saw it all. 

We also got the chance to visit a Masai Village. What an experience to share their culture. It is also so sad to see them loose this culture to modern day life.

This has to be one of the best trips I have ever had the privilege of experiencing and would tell every one that Kenya is a must for the bucket list. 

So Karibu Kenya, the place of friendly smiles and people you wont forget easily, the place that has so much beauty, beauty that will stay in your memory for a life time.

Did you Know? Siwa in Egypt is 60 feet below sea level.