October 11th – Day Seventeen masquerading as day Sixteen which was of course the 10th Starting with the end of yesterday first, I finished writing up the last thirteen days and then had a hard time uploading the text and photos. In the end I managed to get the text uploaded from a computer in […]
More Relaxing
October 10th – Day Sixteen We reach today, a truly uneventful day for me so far. I’ve been typing this up since 8.30am and it’s nearly 2.30pm now. Keryn has had a dive this morning and has another in a half hour, people have been swimming and sunbathing and generally relaxing. Jacques has been trying […]
Relaxing on the shores of Lake Malawi
October 9th – Day Fifteen Early morning breakfast surprise for Sharon The latest in the line of early breakfasts was followed by Johnny arriving in his Toyota ute ready to take us to the stables for the start of our horse ride. Before Johnny arrived Jacques took Sharon a nice breakfast to eat in bed […]
Off to Kande Beach
October 8th – Day Fourteen Today was another travel day, this time further down the coast of Lake Malawi to the Kande Beach camp site via the capital of Malawi, Mzuzu. We were meant to leave at 8am but such is the efficiency of the truck team that we were all ready to go at […]
Walk up Livingstonia
October 7th – Day Thirteen Breakfast was early for the walking group and we walked out of the camp gates at ten past six to find our guide. We had three guides in the end led by Wisdom, the others being Patrick and Godfrey. They led us slowly up through a local village towards the […]
Long drive to Malawi
October 5th & 6th – Days Eleven and Twelve These two days are together because we spent most of both of them driving, our travel taking us from Tanzania to Malawi. The highlight of the first days travel, other than the Farm House campsite at the end, was travelling through the Makumi Game Park. The […]
A day in Stone Town
October 4th – Day Ten Inside a house near our hotel in Stone Town Our last day on Zanzibar and we had a Stone Town walking tour before our journey back to Dar es Salaam. Our guide was again Ali, he of the strange pronunciation and weird humour (imitating Ali G he was ‘Ali T […]
Spice Tour and a night in Stone Town
October 3rd – Day Nine This morning was our failed attempt to get a nice breakfast due to a lack of cake. Once we had all eaten what we could it was back into the minivan and off towards Stone Town. Along the way we picked up Ali, our guide for a Spice Tour. The […]
A Day at Sea
October 2nd – Day Eight The previous day most of us had agreed to go snorkelling and had all signed up and paid with the ‘Spanish Dancer’ diving company. Keryn was also coming out to go diving. We had our breakfast and all made our way to the beach to be fitted for flippers and […]
Relaxing in Ngungwe
October 1st – Day Seven Today was pretty much a rest day for us. I wrote up a few days of our trip so far and we did a lot of relaxing. In the morning we did go for a walk down the beach in the opposite direction to the turtle sanctuary. We passed through […]
Arriving in Zanzibar
September 30th – Day Six Please note that on truck cleaning duty last night (the 29th) I managed to dunk my mobile phone in a bucket of water, and so far it hasn’t come back to life. As such any mobile communication is best directed to Keryn’s phone. Sunrise at the Silver Sands camp site […]
Driving to Dar es Salaam
September 29th – Day Five We awoke to find our washing still very wet. Breakfast was had in a light drizzle and we had to rig up a line in the truck, Jacques coming up trumps with his knots. It was a long driving day as we made our way to Dar es Salaam. Events […]