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Why is the African forum the least popular? (tourist, life, quality)
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Actually, I would love to visit Ghana, Cameroon, Sengegal, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and other African countries. LOL at how fearful you sound. The big bad African continent LOL. Grow up, get a passport, and travel a little.
Few people, comparatively, have been to Africa. And there are hardly any Africans on this site. I'm interested in visiting one day.
Aside from Egypt and Morocco, most tourism seems to be safari-based. Independent travel in most of Africa is virtually non-existent.
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Well on the standards the op has set the Asia section is down right deserted itself seeing as some 60% of the world lives there.
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I think people don't realize the many great places to vacation in Africa. The continent seems to be generalized as one instead of people looking at the individual places. Poverty is really no excuse since Jamaica, DR, several Asian countries, etc have the same issue but that hasn't stopped people from wanting to visit. I just think Africa does not advertise its tourism sector well enough.
People really need to look at each country individually. My sister went to South Africa for study abroad and had a fabulous time. My cousin is now on her way next Semester to South Africa as well. From what I've heard the country has beautiful beaches and plenty of things to do. I hope to visit one day myself.
People have a very skewed vision of Africa which is why i'm glad this forum exists - at its best it can aspire to educate and inform. Unfortunately, Africa has very little bandwidth and internet infrastructure, not to mention computer hardware, so only a small number of rich Africans as of yet have access to the internet. So it makes sense we don't have too many African forumers, although I believe we have a few. This, coupled with the forum being very new, explains the number of threads.
It's also a proxity thing. I've heard that many Europeans regularly visit Africa. Especially Senegal, South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, etc.
For Americans, it's just far for a vacation. As interesting as Africa is, and I'd love to go there myself, I've never been close in proximity to just 'pop' in and check it out.
Why is the African forum the least popular? (tourist, life, quality) - Page 2 - City-Data Forum
Why is the African forum the least popular? (tourist, life, quality)
1,199 posts, read 2,197,293 times
Actually, I would love to visit Ghana, Cameroon, Sengegal, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and other African countries. LOL at how fearful you sound. The big bad African continent LOL. Grow up, get a passport, and travel a little.
Few people, comparatively, have been to Africa. And there are hardly any Africans on this site. I'm interested in visiting one day.
Aside from Egypt and Morocco, most tourism seems to be safari-based. Independent travel in most of Africa is virtually non-existent.
455 posts, read 917,753 times
Well on the standards the op has set the Asia section is down right deserted itself seeing as some 60% of the world lives there.
1,260 posts, read 1,932,923 times
I think people don't realize the many great places to vacation in Africa. The continent seems to be generalized as one instead of people looking at the individual places. Poverty is really no excuse since Jamaica, DR, several Asian countries, etc have the same issue but that hasn't stopped people from wanting to v
isit. I just think Africa does not advertise its tourism sector well enough.
People really need to look at each country individually. My sister went to South Africa for study abroad and had a fabulous time. My cousin is now on her way next Semester to South Africa as well. From what I've heard the country has beautiful beaches and plenty of things to do. I hope to visit one day myself.
People have a very skewed vision of Africa which is why i'm glad this forum exists - at its best it can aspire to educate and inform. Unfortunately, Africa has very little bandwidth and internet infrastructure, not to mention computer hardware, so only a small number of rich Africans as of yet have access to the internet. So it makes sense we don't have too many African forumers, although I believe we have a few. This, coupled with the forum being very new, explains the number of threads.
It's also a proxity thing. I've heard that many Europeans regularly visit Africa. Especially Senegal, South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, etc.
For Americans, it's just far for a vacation. As interesting as Africa is, and I'd love to go there myself, I've never been close in proximity to just 'pop' in and check it out.