By Caiden Lang The last two weeks has been an experience like no other. After leaving Nkatha Bay we continued our journey northwards towards Tanzania. If you were to look on a map, you would notice that there are no roads leading down to the lake from Nkatha bay to somewhere near Chilumba-a stretch of [...]
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Mud Slides on a Motorbike in Tanzania
Laugh. That is all you can do really. Laugh and giggle as the back wheel of the bike slides out from under us every five meters and Guillaume deliberately explodes with girly screams in an attempt to make light of a muddy, slippery situation. Every time we saw a huge pool of mucky water we knew that [...]
Goodbye Zambia, Hello Tanzania
The rain finally subsides and reveals an almost perfect African evening. The full moon lights up the savanna and a couple of persistent clouds hover around the bright ball as it casts its silver light over them. In the distance, lightning reminds us of the storm that passed and has moved on to bless other [...]
Wild Dogs and Roan Antelope – they don’t play nice
By Sue Stolberger We had a very exciting morning some days ago, I spied three wild dogs racing across the grassy plain in front of camp at about 6.45am. Suddenly, there were many more whizzing across the short green grass. Then, I realised that a herd of Roan antelope was standing by, watching rather bemused as [...]
Kilimanjaro: Trials and tribulations Part 4
By Daniel Munslow Day 6 – The summit! With butterflies in our stomachs, we left Barafu Hut at midnight to start the summit attempt. It’s a seven-hour uphill trek with little-to-no flat surfaces to rest or recover. We were hiking on stone scree through the Alpine Desert all the way to Stella Point on the [...]
Kilimanjaro: Trials and tribulations Part 3
By Daniel Munslow Day 4 Barranco Wall is a steep two-hour climb from 3870m to 4200m. It’s technical and challenging and takes you on the edge of a sheer slope. Once this segment was over, we headed out on a four-hour hike, across desert terrain and finally through the Karanga Valley to reach the Karanga [...]
Top ten most romantic destinations in Africa
I am a hopeless romantic at heart. It’s a symptom I inherited at birth when my mother decided to deliver me to this world on Valentines Day. Ever since then my birthday has become sidelined for love. Why not a Valentine’s card? I moan, when the deluge of waffly sentiments from granny gets posted through [...]
Kilimanjaro: Trials and tribulations Part 2
By Daniel Munslow Day 2 We started our day at 06:15 in Machame camp at 2980m when Bariki, the server, woke us up and brought water for cleaning. There are no showers or flushing toilets for seven days. For the most part, it’s a case of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable! By 07:00 we were [...]
Lions 19, Ellies 0
Faru Faru Camp in the western Grumeti may be the camp of my dreams, with its spacious tented accommodation and views that stretch to where the landscape melts into the sky. It manages to combine luxury, tranquility and warmth. Mmmm, and the food is fabulous too! Visitors are encouraged to express their creativity, and pencils, [...]
Money for honey – and a spotty cat
This is the day I have been preparing for, the visit to Singita Grumeti’s community outreach programme. We head for the environmental centre, passing topi, warthogs, the ubiquitous zebras and birds galore. We visit the local school, a beekeeper who is making money from honey; an idea his child learned at school. Another has planted [...]
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Sunburn: Casablanca to Joburg!
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Hope for the Future: a scary split-up and the completion of stage one
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Stuck in the Okavango Delta in a mini-skirt
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Mountain gorilla habitat under siege in DR Congo
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Hope for the Future: dramatic scenery and ‘the day with the sunrise’
