I didn't realize I posted this in Fight Club.
Oh, wait a minute....I DIDN'T.
Please, kindly, shut your mouths about poverty and Cuba, and anything else Sidewinder wants to fight about, and answer my questions 
For those of you who have been to Africa, care to tell me what you did/how it was/etc.?
Standard internet foolishness, anyway, to return to the topic:
Africa-Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Kenya.
I'd give North Africa a miss just now, Kenya might be OK, especially if you stick to organized tourist operations (photo safaris and the like).
Egypt: Pyramids, Valley of the Kings, Aswan, Qatarrah Depression, El Alemain. People were generally friendly, there was a cholera epidemic at the time, so we stuck to a limited number of dining and drinking establishments in Cairo and Port Said, such as Shepheard's (historically interesting, too, British HQ billeting in WWI and WWII, allegedly the origin of the drink known as a Horse's Neck). There was a pretty cool little aquarium in Port Said. I don't know what it's like now, but at the time, it was illegal to take photographs of anything of military significance (this included the anti-aircraft batteries that ere all over both cities, the port, the Suez Canal, bridges and tunnels) or anything reflecting poverty. This pretty much confined picture taking to the Pyramids, the El Alemain battlefield and the Qattarrah Depression (not that this actually stopped us).
Tunisia: Tunis (used to four really good bars on opposite corners of the main square, run by French expatriates), toured Carthage, the grand harbor, Kasserine Pass (if you saw Patton, this is where the movie starts). Again people were friendly, Tunis was quite cosmopolitan.
Morocco: Casablanca, not bad, went to the Souk, which was interesting, looked at the sites for the Torch landings, never did find Rick's Place.
Kenya: Mombasa was cut short by events elsewhere, mostly drank beer. Guys kept trying to trade AK-47s for shoes, which was a bit strange.
