Side of Africa

Rattan is superficially similar with bamboo. Rattan stems are solid and rattan is used as home appliances such as chair, table, lounge seat, rack, storage and so on. Rattan is strong and last longer. It is light weight and has high quality.

Rattan can give natural, elegant and beautiful look. You can buy rattan furniture for your living room, bedroom, kitchen, patio and so on. At ratanland.com, you will find lots of different style of rattan furniture. Modern rattan furniture is good choice if you live in urban house. Most of the urban houses are small and narrower than other places. So the items should be fit in narrow space in urban house.

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Anyone who travels overland through the African continent has to be a little crazy. To do it several times – totally mad. Then again I am from Adelaide, Australia …. Maybe that says something. But to anyone who has ever traveled Africa will understand the old saying “you can take a (wo)man out of Africa, but you can never take Africa out of the (wo)man”. With all its bad press, reputation for danger, death and poverty there is a side to Africa most never see nor experience – the wild diversity of terrains from unforgiving deserts to tropical rainforest to intimidating mountain ranges. The people, languages, dress and customs is a melting pot making this continent one of the most unique places on earth to travel overland.

With 5 expedition Land Rovers, 3 Aussies, 5 Kiwis and 1 German we set out on a 4 month expedition from top to bottom of the Africa continent. We were on our way.

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