ZAMBIA | Sunday, 9 Dec 2012 | Views [203]
Day 35 - THUR - 18/10/12 - Kande Beach, Malawi : Chipata, Zambia It was a fairly substantial driving day of 450km today as we were heading for Zambia. The day started fabously with getting to watch the orange ball of sunrise whilst doing yoga sun salutations.... Read more >
MALAWI | Sunday, 9 Dec 2012 | Views [179]
Day 34 - WED - 17/10/12 - Kande Beach, Malawi Being our first free day since Dahab we spent it doing remaining handwashing, getting our local washed clothes back, catching up on some blog writing and going to the beach!! At the beach I fell asleep under ... Read more >
MALAWI | Sunday, 9 Dec 2012 | Views [342]
Day 33 - TUE - 16/10/12 - Chitimba : Kande Beach, Malawi Today was a day of lake side and mountain views whilst on the road travelling 230km to Kande Beach. Kande Beach Camp was another camp with a beach on Lake Malawi. It was probably the best beach ... Read more >
MALAWI | Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | Views [715]
Day 32 - MON - 15/10/12 - Chitimba, Malawi We decided to attempt a 26km round trip walk to a local waterfall which is on the way to Livingstonia which is the mountain peak in the area. The scenery was amazing in being able to see back up along the ... Read more >
MALAWI | Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | Views [162]
Day 31 - SUN - 14/10/12 - Iringa, Tanzania : Chitimba, Malawi Another early departure today with 500km and a border crossing from Songwe, Tanzania to Kasumula, Malawi. Our campsite tonight was on Lake Malawi at Chitimba Beach. Lake Malawi is a fresh ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | Views [186]
Day 30 - SAT - 13/10/12 - Dar es Salaam : Iringa, Tanzania With the early departure in the dark, watching the sunrise was how we started the 550km drive today. After our roadside salad lunch and bush toilet stop we passed through a small village where ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | Views [188]
Day 29 - FRI - 12/10/12 - Stonetown, Zanzibar : Dar es Salaam, Tanzania A great morning was had catching up on the blog and using the free wi-fi at Mercury's Cafe; including calling Nan for her birthday! Happy Birthday Nan! We headed back on the mid ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | Views [1303]
Day 28 - THUR - 11/10/12 - NungWi : Stonetown, Zanzibar We started the day with another scrummy breakfast of an omlette, fresh juice, fresh fruit and toast with homemade guava and mango jam. After brekkie we departed for the 1.5hr drive back to Stonetown.... Read more >
TANZANIA | Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | Views [755]
Day 27 - WED - 10/10/12 - Nungwi, Zanzibar Time to get out on the water today with a cruise along the coast line to a spot to do some snorkelling. The water was a very light aqua blue with sparkling white sand. We jumped off the boat and snorkelled ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | Views [196]
Day 26 - TUE - 9/10/12 - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Nungwi, Zanzibar Early start for the 7:30am ferry so we were picked up by the tuk tuks at 5:15am. We zoomed to the first ferry - a small local car and pedestrian ferry to take us across town to the ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | Views [616]
Day 25 - MON - 8/10/12 - Arusha : Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Long driving day today at 14 hours and 15 minutes!! Leaving camp early we passed Mt Kilimanjaro in the distance and by the hot early afternoon we were passing through a city on the way to Dar ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | Views [815]
Day 24 - SUN - 7/10/12 - Ngorongoro Crater : Arusha, Tanzania Waking up it was our first animal sighting of the day while we were piling into the jeeps there was a big bull elephant 5m from the 4x4's. In the crater we were game driving again with the ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | Views [1597]
Day 23 - SAT - 6/10/12 - Serengeti National Park, Tanzania It was a busy animal spotting morning with a beautiful backdrop of the sunrise. We saw storks, an eagle, 5 giraffe, 3 hyenas, guinea fowl, krestle and 3 hot air balloons drifting over the Serengeti ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | Views [675]
Day 22 - FRI - 5/10/12 - Arusha : Serengeti National Park, Tanzania The game driving was off to a good start with leaving the camping ground in local guided 4WD's at 7am for the Serengeti. Our 4WD had myself, Kearnsy, Martin and Danielle, Annaline, ... Read more >
EGYPT | Wednesday, 7 Nov 2012 | Views [324]
A few key items to close out the Middle East leg. An update on the age old debate of - Wheelie Bag vs.Backpack Tally stands at Wheelie 3, Backpack 2... Wheelie score 1 for - Luton Airport Israel Airport Petra Hills Backpack score 1 for - Wadi Rum ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Wednesday, 7 Nov 2012 | Views [260]
Day 21 - THUR - 4/10/12 - Nairobi, Kenya : Arusha, Tanzania
300km was covered today but on very poor road so it was a long driving day on the truck, leaving camp by 6am.
The first border crossing for this trip between Kenya ... Read more >
KENYA | Wednesday, 7 Nov 2012 | Views [340]
Day 20 - WED - 3/10/12 - Nairobi, Kenya
Arriving at Nairobi airport at 3am with fingers crossed that our last minute Skype SMS has been received, we were very pleased to see our names on a board being held
by our driver. Thankfully so ... Read more >
EGYPT | Wednesday, 7 Nov 2012 | Views [229]
Day 19 - TUE - 2/10/12 - Cairo, Egypt After having a decent brekkie of bread rolls, jam,juice, boiled egg and cheese we set off for the post office and Egyptian Museum. The post office was on Ramsis Street which is one of the main ones headed to Tahrir ... Read more >
EGYPT | Wednesday, 7 Nov 2012 | Views [299]
Day 18 - MON - 1/10/12 - Cairo, Egypt The overnight bus to Cairo was adventurous as the one from Jerusalem to Eilat had been, except instead of toilet stops, it was security checkpoints - 4 of themwith police in plain clothes again so you didn't really ... Read more >
EGYPT | Wednesday, 7 Nov 2012 | Views [219]
Day 17 - SUN - 30/9/12 - Dahab, Egypt Today was our final day of yoga as we are not staying tonight afterall as we want to get to Cairo to explore, so no Monday morning scheduled class. We were joined by 2 new people and Kirsty left the day before so ... Read more >
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