About the Africa Travel Blog

Goal and Purpose

The Africa Travel Blog is here for you to find and share experiences, ideas, information and news about Travel in Africa. The blog is open for all of you who are traveling on the African continent to blog about your Africa trips. I encourage you to register as a guest blogger today, and share your trip (planning, thoughts, experiences, stories, maybe even pictures) with friends, family & the world right here on the Africa Travel Blog!

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The Developer behind the Africa Travel Blog

The Africa Travel Blog is designed and developed by me, Hakon Kavli. I am a 24 year old man with a passion for life, travel, exploring the world, learning to know cultures, places and people. Actually I like to learn about everything. I even like physics and math. And to share all of these passions with, I have my beautiful, wonderful girlfriend, Eleyce, who I now live with in San Diego.

I have not always lived in San Diego, though. I was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Nittedal, close to Oslo, in Norway. I have also lived in Cape Town, South Africa, for about six months, and will move back there for at least two years in January 2010.

Apart from living at different places, I have a decent amount of travel experience. At the age of 17 I traveled through Europe by train for a few weeks. At 18 years old I traveled for 4 months in Southeast Asia, visiting Thailand, Malaysia, and Bali and Lombok in Indonesia. About a year and a half later I had another trip around in Europe by train for 2-3 weeks. The next trip was 10 weeks of traveling and working in Guatemala and Mexico.

The last and best adventure so far was 6 months in Southern Africa, with school and travel. During these six months we had more than two months of backpacking around, visiting Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia and of course South Africa. These are all travels I have done on my own, with friends or with my wonderful girlfriend, Eleyce. But I also have some interesting travel experience with my family, including Jamaica, Kenya, Zanzibar and Vietnam. Plus several shorter trips in Europe, California, etc.

In June 2008 I graduated from the University of Oslo with a bachelor’s degree in Development Studies. And the plan is to continue my education in South Africa at the University of Cape Town’s School of Economics. So if it all works out right, I will have a Masters Degree in Economics with a focus on Africa’s Tourism Industry by December 2011.

As you can see, most of my hobbies relate to travel. And that is what I want my professional life to be about as well. That is why I see myself working in, running, or even owning (!) a successful travel business one day in the future!

Thank you for reading this little introduction to myself. I hope you will continue by reading the rest of what I have posted on the Worlds #1 Africa Travel Blog!

Kindest Regards,

Hakon

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