Blogs from Africa - page 2705

Galib enjoyed a bit of time off in Mombasa, Kenya. He read some books, dranks lots of coffee and relaxed in the sauna and steam room. The hotel also featured a nice blue pool. He fell in love with a restaurant called "Tamarind", feasting on a dish named "lobster swahili". The room was quite nice, Galib was startled when a monkey was staring at him through the glass. You can see in the photo that the monkey is staring right at Galib's stuff. ... read more

In 1994, in just under 100 days, nearly 1 million people were brutally murdered, often by family, friends and neighbours. Many years on and the sad legacy of the genocide remains. · 64% of the population live on less than 1$ a day · 3.8% of Rwandans have a secondary school education · 48% have access to clean drinking water · 2% of the population have access to electricity SACCA’s Programme There are three SACCA residential centres in the eastern province of Kibungo supporting over 200 vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Children of all ages. Each centre prides itself on its high staff to child ratio - each centre has an experienced manager, assistant manager, at least one teacher, an anamateur (supervisor) and guard and is visited on an almost daily basis by one of their ... read more

I'd stopped at St Lucia on the northern coast of KwaZulu Natal mainly because I wanted to see the Hippo's that live along the estuary here - so a few hours after arriving in town I found myself down at the jetty, clambering onto a tour boat and trying to decide on the best place to sit. What I'd somehow managed to miss when I was reading up on St Lucia is that in addition to the Hippo's these wetlands are also home to rather a large number of crocodiles. We'd only moved a few hundred meters when the captain suddenly slowed down and veered off towards the bank.... with no Hippo's in sight I was a bit confused until, just before the front of the boat nudged the bank, I finally realised what we were ... read more

today we fly out of entebee for a week vacation on zanzibar island sponsered by iams pet foods, but just in case our sponsors r reading this we aren't spending ur money on zanzibar, we're spending it on strippers and nile rafting yesterday we went down to entebbe for a day trip, the taxi here are awesome, they are shared and crammed but to go the 40km it was $1.33, we went to a wildlife place run by dr. s's girl, it was a good day trip, on the way back we decided to go to sam's to get game meat, we had wildebeast and spring bok, both were awesome, 2 more animals to my list, the event of the day came before, we were walking and it was dark and i wasn't paying attention, sometimes ... read more

On Friday morning me and 4 of my fellow volunteers (Ali, Naomi, George and Tom) caught a matatu up to Malindi airport to fly to Lamu. Unfortunately our flight got cancelled and we ended up sitting on a bus for 5 hours! The road to Lamu is very bumpy and pot-holey and about 60 miles away from our destination we had 2 armed guards join us because of the risk of bandits and the fact that we're very close to Somalia! We arrived in Lamu late afternoon and checked into our budget hotel (GBP2.30 a night). We went out to a restaurant called Bush Gardens owned by a guy called Satan! The food was nice enough but it was so slow! We must have waited about an hour and a half for our starters alone! ... read more