Crossing into Zimbabwe has been no easy task! After being stamped out of Mozambique, we moved forward to enter Zimbabwe; visas are USD30 for everybody except the British, nice one Tony! USD55 lighter each we attempt to pass through immigration; no problem. Until they send us back into No Mans Land. We have to cross awith our truck, but then nobody has the right bit of paper to issue the truck to go through; some hushed talking is done, some US dollars shift from one hand to another and then were allowed to proceed, but at the checkpoint were ordered off [View Full Entry]

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After having the truck fixed we headed south to Malawi, given the fact we'd lost a night due to the breakdown we spent one night less in Chitimba and so only really stayed overnight, though we did get the chance to go to a witch doctor, who predicted that both Rhian and I would have long happy lives and we'd get married and have two children, a boy then a girl. The good doctor was wiling to elaborate further, though it seems the spirits had an entrance fee for further delving into the knowledge pool. We then headed further south to [View Full Entry]

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It's been a while since we were able to update this due to some pretty poor internet connections. We're now in Zimbabwe, but that will have to be written later! we crossed into Tanzania and headed straight for Arusha in the north of the country, it's the nearest town to the Ngorongoro Crater National Park, where we went for a game drive and saw plenty of buffalo, giraffe and elephants. The next day we went to the Serengeti National Park, again there were plenty of animals, we saw Lions stalking prey, Elephant herds wandering the savannahs, Hippos swimming in the lakes [View Full Entry]

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The first leg of our tour has come to an end, and we've lost 12 of the people from it, we pick up another 14 tomorrow as we make our way to Tanzania, as long as there aren't too many Aussies included all should be fine, the Americans seem quite shy in comparison to the bread thieves! Since our last entry we visited the Genocide museum in Kigali, it's pretty powerful stuff and in the end we were both pretty glad to leave. The history behind it is incredible. We then left Rwanda and headed to Uganda, spending a couple of [View Full Entry]

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After two days of solid driving through Kenya and Uganda we finally arrived in Rwanda, with some camping nights in between, some of which were good, some not so much, one particular highlight was a shower that had the tap attached to the mains electric, which added a nice touch to the experience! Most people came out having had a nice electric shock! On the road we saw a lot of farms and small villages, lots of children come out to wave at us as we passed by in the truck, most of the houses are built from mud and sticks [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone, We've finally arrived in Kenya, the first night was ok after we finally negotiated a taxi fare after our transfer failed to turn up, after a few hairy moments we made it to camp and met up with some fellow travellers, it was good to have a hot shower which we weren't expecting, the first thing we noticed was how cold it was, we left for Nairobi on monday morning and started the tour after joining everyone on our truck. Our first night was spent on a campsite on lake Nakuru just north of Nairobi, but we went to [View Full Entry]

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20 hours until we take off from Heathrow, so this is our last day in the wet and windy UK. Having spent the last 12 days buying enough kit to collapse an elephant, and enough drugs to keep even Cardiff's finest junkies happy, we're just about ready to go! We leave Rhians parents in a matter of hours and head to the bright lights of Watford to stay with my grandparents, before waking them up at 4am to say goodbye, I think we're both excited and nervous at the same time, and today we get the pleasure of taking our first [View Full Entry]

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