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Prologue   People have often told me to start a travel blog. But, the inherent lax attitude (the feeling we lovingly call the ‘lyad’) of a Bong has always stopped me from taking that initiative. However, this time, I finally managed to do it, for my first trip to Africa has been so fulfilling that it would have been unjust not to share it with the rest of the world. And then, when a Bong finally decides to write a travelogue, nothing can beat the temptation to follow the style of our beloved 'Professor Shanku'. So, this piece here is more like a traveler’s diary, instead of a regular travel blog. I have tried my best to describe the experiences, and I do hope you will enjoy the stories and the photographs. February 4, 8:15pm, Istanbul airport: Since the day we (me and Kushal) planned to take this trip, tens and hundreds of worries gripped us from time to time, one of the major tensions being the authenticity of the travel agency we already paid an advance to.