Príncipe - São Tomé and Príncipe I am a surprisingly trusting person, one that can put his safety in the hands of others and pretty much relax. You must therefore understand the sheer terror I felt as we drove down from the interior to the international airport to catch a 9am flight to Principe. The …
São Tomé - São Tomé and Príncipe Bloody turtles. It wasn’t long since I last had this rant. After a very busy first day, after dinner, we had driven down a sandy track to an NGO that was taking care of the local turtle population. Here we would get a chance to see a turtle …
São Tomé - São Tomé and Príncipe After 70 days in West Africa, my time was coming to an end, at least on the mainland it was. What I really needed now was a relaxing holiday on some tropical islands that no one had ever heard of. Before that though, what I absolutely needed was …
Kumasi to Accra - Ghana The sound of the muezzin echoing from mosques at any time of day is one of the pleasures of travelling around an Islamic country. Funnily enough, the Arabs have it honed to perfection where assuming the sound system isn’t a heap of junk, the call to prayer is both beautiful …
Mole National Park - Ghana Exiting Tongo was like escaping the apocalypse; the countryside crackling all around us, sounding like a hailstorm on a tin roof in slow motion, yet the thick black smoke, intense heat, and sight of flames ravenously consuming a particularly dense area of bush revealed the true source of the sound. …
