This is an exquisite little book, one that you will want to keep, also one that you will want to buy for that someone special as a present. Beautifully written, unique in style and concept, the author takes you on some magnificent journeys through parts of Southern Africa. Her descriptions are so deftly written that you can literally smell the smells, imagine the sights and feel the hot African sun beating down on your head.
As an armchair traveler, you will go to the Okovango Delta in Botswana and fly over the tree tops where elephant, rhino and giraffe graze beneath your wings; watch lions prowl through the bush at the Kruger National Park which is the size of Holland; bicycle through the Karoo to see the daisies spring up wildly throughout this semi-desert terrain; walk through the forests of Hogsback and see vervit monkeys at play; swim in the ocean with Dolphins, visit the Sterkfontein caves and Little Foot who is over three million years old, and lastly, climb the Drakesburg where you are higher than the eagles who live and breed in these mountains.
Coupled with your travels the author gives you a meditation at the end of each journey that is aligned with one of the seven chakras, relating each place to a different chakra. She also explains healthy and unhealthy chakras. Through this unique and superb combination of travel and meditation, Gail Evans renews and rejuvenates the reader externally through the five senses and internally through the spirit.
If you have never been to Africa, this delightful book will give you more than a glimpse of what that continent has to offer and will wet your appetite to travel through this vast expanse with its diverse wild life and abundance of flora and fauna. At the end of the book, she has included a number of web sites that cater to travel through Southern Africa. If you have been to Africa, the author's words will bring back memories of more than the smell of the African bush and you will literally feel those African drums beating in rhythm to your heart.
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