Namibia We arrived in Namibia after disembarking from our hitched ride with a trucky in Windhoek, got the hostel owner out of bed to get a room and then went to pick up our car complete with roof tents, camping gas cylinders and spade (more useful than you might think) before heading off north towards one of Namibia's most famous attractions, Etosha National Park. Etosha Etosha was zebra-tastic but, did as it promises provide us with 3 Rhino sightings one of which, we only noticed because as we were rushing back to get into the campsite before it closed at sunset [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Chobe and were soon on our first game drive which started early doors at 6am! It was freeeeeeeezing! We had one sleeping bag between all of us and i'd like to say it was worth it but, frankly there were no animals at all for a good 2.5 hrs! This is a place with over 70,000 elephants...how do you hide that many elephants?! However, just as were about to leave we heard some impala braying and so headed down to the river bank. Here we managed to see a leopard dragging an impala into some bushes! We narrowly [View Full Entry]

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So it was an interesting introduction to Zambia. Arrived at the border post to the usual disorganised chaos and then had to give some 20usd encouragement to the medical official to let me in the country because of some un-discrepancy with my yellow fever certificate. Good to know the price of the nations health and how effective all the 'zero tolerance to corruption posters' are that he was happily standing next while telling me that 'he was sure we could come to some arrangement'! From here we headed for a place called Chipata where we pitched up a tent and quickly [View Full Entry]

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We finally arrived in Mozambique and I have to say it was well worth the effort! The white beaches, faded Portuguese charm, some of the most pristine corals I've ever seen, rock formations rearing up out of nowhere before melting back into the green expanses or red earth plains made it one of the most scenically dramatic countries yet and that's saying something after the Serengeti! It was also, seemingly, one of the most advanced in terms of male and female equality we'd been to in Africa so far (not that that is saying much to be honest!). It would seem [View Full Entry]

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So here's the update on Africa! It's quite long as its been a while so hope you manage to get to the end before slipping into a coma... Our first stop in Africa was Uganda where after you get used to people shouting Mzungu at you (meaning white person in Swahili) and being generally stared at, it was everything that Africa promised: Friendly people, amazing scenery and cramped transport! We made most of our way around Uganda on Budabudas (motorbikes) or Mutatus which, is what you and i know as minibuses. All are licensed to carry 16 passengers, all carried about [View Full Entry]

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We headed from Tanzania into Malawi and after a brief spell near the highlands in the North where we stayed somewhere with a funky tree shower but, unfortunately weren't able to use the tree bed due to the weather we headed to the coast of Lake Malawi. First stop was Nhakata bay where managed to get some locals to take us out fishing in their dug out canoe which we very nearly capsized and the fisherman nearly cr@pped himself when we saw an otter!! Seriously? He's from Africa! Lions, elephants, no worries...but the evil otter, who knows what could happen in [View Full Entry]

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So last time I updated this i had just been up a live volcano which was spitting lava all over the place in guatemala. Well after that we headed to El Salvador which was great. There was nothing that was the biggest and best but everything was cool and the people were genuinely friendly with no ulterior motive such as their friend had somewhere we could stay/buy craft/get a taxi...! It was so nice to be somewhere where people were interested in why you were there and not snarling at you as they are so jaded by the a constant onslaught [View Full Entry]

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How on Earth did it get to Christmas so quickly?! I can't believe i've been away for 6weeks, covered 3 countries, met up with a friend from uni who has joined our merry band for the rest of the C.America tour, said hi and bye to one of Jimmah's friends and waved farewell to my boyf after his 3 week visit...as you would expect it's been the usual mix of excitement, ooohing, ahhing, eyebrow raising, drunken behaviour and a fair few feck ups! So here is a quick synopsis of what i have been getting up to! We arrived in Mexico [View Full Entry]

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