One week and counting!

So, one week to go! Have still got loads to do. Spent four days last week doing our motorbike test course. I got through but Michael didn't so he'll have to go pillion with me!!! Trying to spend lots of time with Sarah and Louise before we go. Here's a pic of them - stunning eh!
Thought you might like to know our outline itinerary: we kick off in Kenya, spending a few days in Nairobi, then off to the Masai Mara and Serengeti, over to Zanzibar, across Tanzania to Malawi then Zambia, Victoria Falls, Botswana and the Oavanga Delta, down to Kruger NP and finishing that leg of the trip in Jo'burg. Then we spend some time in Cape Town before travelling along the Garden route and heading over to Durban for a few weeks doing some voluntary work with a project for the elderly. At the end of Jan we head across to India, meet up with a friend, Satish, and travel through the south, go to Sri Lanka and the Maldives (got to be done!) then back to North India and meet up with more friends, Tony and Parul in Delhi and possibly Michael's childhood friends from Moradabad, and hopefully do some vol work with the railway children. Then it's trekking the Annapurna in Nepal with a short stint of vol work, across Tibet and train journey across China. Hope to meet up with the girls here for a couple of weeks. After China its off to Mexico, Belize and Guatemala, poss Cuba, then down to Brazil, Argentina and Chile. By now it should be Sept 08 so we head back home for a few weeks then off again to south east asia, Australia (and meet more friends - Chris and Michelle), New Zealand (and maybe catch up with Goldsworthy), and then head back home again proper! (Had to do it in 2 sections to avoid hurricanes and monsoons - we hope!). Still finalising plans and will share more when we know it!!
So, hope that's whetted the appetite. Probably write again when we leave on the 18th.

Speak soon!

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