Travel Review: Africa Safari, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Olduvai Gorge, Apartheid Museum

I know it may sound unbelievable, but every day of this trip----perhaps with the exception of intermediate travel days---was amazing and truly memorable.  The "highlights" were everything we did....just some examples....in Johannesburg, after experiencing the excellent Apartheid Museum, touring Soweto with a man forced to live there when he was 5 years old; then being guided through the archaeological wonder that is Sterkfontein caves and the "Cradle" museum, seeing the downtown and mining areas of the city, where my own great-grandfather had a store over 100 years ago....in Tanzania, having the thrilling and wondrous experience of tracking animals; moving, eye-opening experiences seeing much of the life of "real" Africans (not at tourist attractions), powerfully emotional experiences at Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli (as an evolution/anthropology nut, visiting those sites really meant a lot to me) etc.  Our final days in Kenya (Nairobi) were the "recovery from the road" time that we didn't realize we were going to need....but our agent did realize it and designed our time there accordingly.