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Campaigning_For_Redheads - Michael Broadbent

Michael Broadbent Hey Everyone,

Well the time has come... the time has come for another grande adventure to a far off land. Where is the red hair going to be flaunted this time? Africa! A continent I've wanted to explore in depth for a very very veeeeeery long time, and now am finally getting that opportunity. This will be my longest trip yet. Three months in total, stretching over seven countries and hundreds of kilometers.

It will begin with a brief but relaxing stay in Cape Town, where I'll be able to recover from jet lag, spend some quality time on the beach, and maybe do a little shark diving and wine touring while I'm at it. I'll then head up to Tanzania for a month where I'll be volunteering for an adventure group doing humanitarian work in the Machame area, building community facilities and teaching in the Nkwamwasi primary school. Conditions are said to be pretty rustic, no electricity or running water and lots of bugs. Back to the basics.

After the volunteer term wraps up I will head to Uganda to join an overland tour group. For 46 days we will then trek in an oversized ruggedized school bus through Uganda, Kenya, back into Tanzania and on to Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe if the political climate has cooled by that point.

They'll be lots of stories to tell, and I hope to be able to update this travel blog once a week with all of the adventures. There will be no internet in the village and apparently even in major urban centres only basic dial-up is available so we'll just have to see.

If you want to me notified by email when I have made a new post click 'Subscribe' just down and to the left, and you'll be as up to date as anyone with the latest of my escapades.

Hope everyone has a great summer, be sure to keep in touch!

Cheers,
Michael





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The Group
The Group
Standing on the equator with the group
Hey all, For the first time in what feels like forever I have decent internet, so instead of putting together a long story blog. I'm going to load a number of photos for you all to take a peak. Since my last entry we've spent alot of time in, and around the Serengeti on safari. It was amazing. The photos I've included are a mere sample of the hundreds I've taken so far... I've also gone back and included the gorilla trek too. At the moment I'm back on Zanzibar island. We have a four day stop over here. I've spent [View Full Entry]

Campaigning_For_Redheads - Michael Broadbent | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 45 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 143 words | [diary=298761] | 2008-07-12 15:50:19

Pit Stop
Tea Fields of Rwanda
Gorilla Guides

Hey all, First off I'll start by saying thanks to everyone who sends me emails to keep in-touch and let me know what's going on back home. They are quite appreciated as the duration of this trip stretches out into its eighth week. I have been busy since I last posted, as I've been apart of Absolute Africa's Big Six tour heading from Uganda to Rwanda, and back down through to Zambia. Our mode of transport is a giant yellow truck. Think a school bus on steroids. There are 28 of us in total, ranging in age from 19 to 35 [View Full Entry]

Campaigning_For_Redheads - Michael Broadbent | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 869 words | [diary=292706] | 2008-06-28 09:30:41


School Path
School Path
My school
Hey everyone, Well it is time to change gears folks, as my time with the volunteer project is now at an end. On Monday I begin the next phase of the adventure, the 46 day safari kicking off in Uganda and heading down to Victoria Falls. I've had a great time here (even with the flu) and have learned so much about the Tanzanian culture and the problems associated with Western development of Africa as a whole. I'm not going to go off on any random tangents today. :-) Suffice to say that to truly succeed in the future I think [View Full Entry]

Campaigning_For_Redheads - Michael Broadbent | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 14 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 247 words | [diary=287179] | 2008-06-14 13:18:05

Opening Ceremonies
Opening Ceremonies Setup
Project Site

Hey everyone, Sorry no images for this one, as I hadn't actually intended on writing a blog journal at this point in time. Alot has transpired since my last message, some good, some bad and some observational. Hmmm which to start off with. We'll lead off with bad. A few days after my last message I fell ill. Not a little bit ill, not sort of ill but completely knocked off my feet ill. The natural tendency in Africa (unlike western nations) is to assume that an illness is the worst possible thing imaginable and work backwards. Thus, when one day [View Full Entry]

Campaigning_For_Redheads - Michael Broadbent | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 1182 words | [diary=285108] | 2008-06-08 18:20:48


The mob!
The mob!
When cute little kids attack...
Hey all, Well it has been a little while since I've checked in and plenty has happened since then, so you'll have to bear with me and the ramble that you're about to read. I arrived in Tanzania a little over a week ago, and have been enjoying every minute of it. Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world. Not long back it was one of the five poorest, but recently has put alot of effort into restoring its economy and is now at least out of the bottom twenty. Its main industry obviously is tourism, but it [View Full Entry]

Campaigning_For_Redheads - Michael Broadbent | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 1 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 1141 words | [diary=279980] | 2008-05-25 13:27:47


Looking on to Seal Island
Looking on to Seal Island
My favorite photo so far
Hey Everyone, Time for the first entry in this journal of mine. It has been one week - almost to the very hour - that I left Calgary for what I had thought would be sunnier shores. Upon arrival (some 30 hours later), however, I was not greeted by sunshine but by cloud, rain and a fierce headache. I will admit that my first impressions of Cape Town were not overly favorable. Within minutes of making it to my hostel and starting to explore the city I was accosted by numerous beggars. The first few weren't particularly bad, but when you're [View Full Entry]

Campaigning_For_Redheads - Michael Broadbent | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 35 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 620 words | [diary=276239] | 2008-05-14 18:55:55

At the summit
Mirrored kisses
Look! I found my tummy!