Change of Plans

We went to Agadir and were hours from hopping on a bus heading to Mauritania. Checking the travel warnings we discovered that both Mauritania and Mali had been up-graded to severe travel warnings. Even soldiers are being kidnapped. Since we had planned to travel overland to the other countries in that region, it became apparent that it was too dangerous to do that part of our journey. Flights within Africa are almost non-existant, so we are headed to South Africa via Paris, just a small detour. We will arrive in Johannesburg on March 12th.