Africa

If I were to choose a place I could go, I would most definitely want to visit Africa. I would want to visit Africa because of it fascinating history, great culture, and exquisite beauty. Africa has great horizions, interesting people, and much more. I was inspired to visit Africa after watching the movie The Lion King, although it is an animated version of Africa, because it captures the great aspects of the very large continent like the different tribes, or the true care they give to animals. Overall, Africa would be a great place to visit.

I’ll start with the landscape, particularly Southern Africa. This region has a wide diversity of ecoregions including grassland, bushveld, karoo, savannah and riparian zones.This region includes species such as white rhino, lion, leopard, impala, kudu, blue wildebeest, vervet monkey and elephants. Africa’s “High Grasslands”, the high grasslands cover almost all of the southern peninsula, but are unfortunately being destroyed along with other plants and wildlife be overpopulation. These plains have very tall grasses and the grasses can range in color from dusty-grey to vibrant-green in some regions. The beauty sunsets are a amazing sight, looking at the reddish-orange sun sunken half way so only the top remaining portion is shown and with its rays distorting the small area around the edge, is a empowering image. It brings tranquillity back to the craziness of reality. Africa as a whole gives off that effect. The plains are not just any plains- these plains are home to many different species, just like the high grasslands, such as white rhino, lion, leopard, impala, and more. Even though these plains may only contain one tree for 50 miles or more, that tree could be a very fascinating if people would only stop and look a little closer. The Umbrella Thorn tree has a grey-brown color though the trunk and the branches, but at the top it has resilient greenery. The top of the tree is covered with bushy greenery, vibrant, luscious, green leaves. But this is not the only tree in Africa, there are so many which include, but is not limited to, the Wild Date Palm- a palm tree with feather-shaped leaves, very nice (even though the tree is 6 meters tall), or the commonly known Bushwillow- a wide spread, fairly common shrub, up to 4 meters tall, which grows on both deep sand and loamy-sand. The leaves are relatively large compared to others. All these trees can be found the Africa’s great savannahs, lone plains, thriving forests.

Just stating some facts, but hopefully you will see why overall Africa is a very wonderful place, full of brilliant colors and fascinating landscapes. Africa has so many different aspects and to only look at one or few is to look at the Statue of Liberty through a paper tube. You may know what you are looking at but you only see a small glimpse of what is truly there a great place- Africa.

-aj