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Fresh Lime Stripe Fabric Hammock Add blissful lounging luxury to your patio, balcony or garden sanctuary with this cool and stylish Fresh Lime Sundure Fabric Hammock! Accented with playful stripes and bursting with endless energy, this relaxing fabric hammock is guaranteed to brighten up your day! Features: Weight Capacity of 400 lbs. [...] Africa is the place to be this holiday season. The continent elicits very mixed reactions from would-be tourists. Festivals, costumes, jungles and cultures are inherently African. Africa is one of the remaining places in the world that is known for its natural beauty; beauty that is both scenic and truly exotic. A true travel experience that will truly mesmerize you ought to be a holiday spent in Africa. Every West African festival is exciting and worth looking forward to. Indeed, the entire African continent has much to offer, more than you can imagine. The most daring African safaris are found in Kenya, Namibia, Mauritius, Zambia and even Egypt. African safaris are meant to offer you the real experience of being on the African continent. Such a travel experience lives on long after you have gone back home. This is why you need to take some pictures in order to relive some of the adventures encountered. Anyone who has decided to come to Africa to witness its flora and fauna can have prior travel arrangements put in place. Many resorts dot crucial attractions; you just need to make a safari location and tour choice and then book.  African Safaris A tour to the East African region brings you face to face with The Big Five. These include lion, elephant, cheetah, leopard and buffalo. African Safaris are a true experience and an amazing adventure. All African communities know all about the significance of tribal masks and costumes. No African Festival can be complete without these forms of decorations. Sometimes spiritual overtones also contribute to the interpretation of the influence of these items. African traditions are both interesting and intriguing in equal measure. For instance, most of the African communities believe that circling villages while wearing carnival costumes and tribal masks brings about good fortunes to the people. African festival traditions from the continent borrow heavily form a single act that involves collecting and putting together objects such as bones, shells, beads and fabrics so as to make a sculpture, a skull, or even a mere costume. All these objects are said to add to a certain force that contributes to the spiritual significance of the whole object.  African tribal masks When feathers are used on the African tribal masks during festivals, they represent the power to rise above other people so as to conquer them. In another sense, the feathers represent the ability to conquer problems, weaknesses, pains, illnesses and heartbreaks. Carnival costumes have always been made in the same way all over the world only that in Africa, a powerful spiritual dimension is added to them. It takes three days of sailing along the Niger River to reach Timbuktu, the town that is nearest to the venue of the Festival of the Desert. African culture is manifest everywhere; along the Niger River, in Timbuktu, along the two-hour drive across sand dunes from Timbuktu to Essakane, and during the three days of the festival. The Festival in the Desert takes a special place among the other African festivals and Tuareg people, those ‘Blue people’ add color to diversity of the African culture. The Festival in the Desert is celebrated by the Tuareg people every year. The festival features both traditional Tuareg music and modern Malian lyrics. The next festival is tentatively scheduled from 7th to 10th January 2010. It will be held in Essakane, Timbuktu, at the heart of the Sahara Desert. Therefore the festival is also referred as Essakane Festival.  Tuareg music One way of getting to Timbuktu in time for the festival is via the Niger River. Once you reach this town, you have to travel over land for the rest of the journey. Once an international flight arrives in Bamako, many visitors prefer to book a hotel so as to remain in this city overnight. The following day marks the beginning of the Festival in the Desert through the Malian heartland. The sight of traditional villages and rural lifestyles of Tuareg people is just amazing. African culture is renowned for festivals. There is something about the African festival culture that makes the activities of these festivals original and exotic. The Nigerian Ogba community holds the New Yam Festival annually while the Tuareg are culturally attached to the Festival in the Desert. The New Yam Festival among the Ogba people in Nigeria is a distinctive African festival. This community is agriculturally endowed and also has an amazing aqua culture. The New Yam Festival is meant to harmonize the people so as to bring about more coherence. This is the time when people’s speeches are spoken without any political overtones. According to the Ogba culture, The New Yam Festival festival ought to take place every August. Carnival costumes worn during The New Yam Festival is a part of African culture and represent great fun as Africans interpret it.  New Yam Festival Wrestlers fight while wearing carnival costumes during New Yam Festival in Nigeria. It is hard to witness an African festival that lacks some form of wrestling competition. Most of these competitions are between rival clans or ethnic groups. |
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