Nancy Burke's Testimonial

Since childhood I have harbored a desire to see Africa. I have imagined the sights,..... the sounds,...... the smells that would always fill my imagination with awe and wonder. In March of 2001, I journeyed to Tanzania and Kenya. What I experienced was incredible and far beyond my most vivid imaginings.

One cannot begin to describe the vast Serengeti, the sights of hundreds of elephant families majestically traversing the brush, touching each other with their trunks, a group of lions sleeping on a rock outcrop "kopje" with bellies full, extraordinarily graceful giraffes lumbering across our path close enough to hear their breath and see their large soft eyes.......and long eyelashes, .....the overwhelming magnitude of over six million ..... massive wildebeest migrating across the plains until the horizon appears as one solid black line. All these things....I dreamed of and imagined and experienced.

But who could anticipate the unexpected.......? the soul of a people so rich in warmth and spirit, generously welcoming me whether in bustling streets of
Dar-es-Salaam or the most remote villages the majesty of the Maasai living much as they have for centuries, the beauty of the rolling plains blanketed with wildflowers, the awe of seeing Mt. Kilimanjaro's snow covered summit after emerging from a trail through a dense, humid rain forest.

I recall these memories with great pleasure but also with incredible longing to return to this extraordinary, vibrant part of the world!!

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