The Tsiribihina River - Madagascar. We love a good boat cruise and three days cruising down the middle of Madagascar was always going to be a winner although there was one concern. Only twenty bottles of beer had been loaded. We informed our guide this would barely last our group of nine for one day …
Antananarivo - Madagascar There are three things I aspire to in life. The first is to fall in love with a hottie and live happily ever after, the second is to succeed in my career and the third is to be well travelled. I feel I am well on the way to achieving two of …
Kigali - Rwanda April 2008 The primary objective for the first week of the trip was to get to Rwanda to see the mountain gorillas. A journey that had taken us through Uganda via Kampala, the capital, following the northern edge of Lake Victoria - the second largest freshwater lake in the world. The night …
Nakuru - Kenya April 2008 I will never forget the smell first thing in the morning in Africa. More often than not we had early starts, normally between six and seven am, with the aim to be setting off by eight when we had a full day on the road. The smell I’m trying to …
Running on empty. The next thirty hours would involve a lot of going up, a lot of panting, a lot of going down and, not a lot of sleep! Day four began a tad earlier than usual so that we could beat the traffic that would inevitably descend on the Barancco wall. Literally what it …
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