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Four days and three nights at Nairobi and Mount Kenya for a price as low as SA49 is the sort of bargain that is available under British Air ways’ East Africa Holidays plan.

A variety of these holidays is available. Another example is a Mombasa beach holiday of five nights and six days for as little as SAISO. There are holidays during which you can visit the game reserves and national parks as well.

Any of the holidays can be com bined to suit the length of time you have to stay.

Nairobi is one of Africa’s major centres for game-viewing and this is where you begin and end these two to six day tours. Everything is in cluded: transfers, accommodation, some meals, sightseeing and you are collected and returned to Nairobi air port.

East Africa has some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. The rich vivid uplands of Kenya have hillsides that are bright green, with blood-red earth and there is the dra matic mountain-rimmed cleft of the Great Rift Valley.

For the photographer it is a para dise. You’ll capture wildebeeste, gazelle, zebra, giraffe, elephant, croc odile, rhino, cheetah, leopard, lion and many more. The Tsavo National Park, largest of its kind in the world, is the home of some 150 species of mammals, reptiles and birds.

Ask at your nearest British Airways office for a brochure if you would like to know more about these bar gain holidays, which do not, of course, include the price of the air fare.

There are plenty of British Airways services to Nairobi, including those operating directly across the Indian Ocean from Hong Kong via Sri Lanka and the Seychelles.

Still looking for that “get-away from-it-all” holiday? Then why not try the Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean for a brief stopover. British Airways is offering three-day holidays, including hotel and some sightseeing

(not the air fare, of course!) for as little as 5A63.00 per person.

Thousands of miles from any where, this island paradise for cen turies lay almost unvisited except by rare and beautiful birds. Now it has been added to the British Airways’ list of exotic destinations with a twice-weekly service from London via Nairobi which continues on to Colombo, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

There are 85 islands in the Sey chelles group scattered over the Indian Ocean near the equator about mid

way between Africa and India. About half are of ancient granite, moun tainous and covered with lush vege tation and lie within 35 miles of Mahe, the main island. The remainder are coral atolls. On Mahe, the de lightful little port of Victoria boasts a Government House, a cathedral, botanical gardens, a museum—and a clock that chimes twice!

The price of the holiday includes a two-hour trip by glass-bottomed boat where you discover a world of de licately shaped corals alive with fish.

The Seychelles—the islands time forgot.