Jambiani - Zanzibar I love Saudi Arabia but..... After fifteen months in the country with only one three-week trip home to the UK, I was enormously excited to be looking out of a plane window as we flew along the East African coast with it's endless white beaches and the glistening Indian Ocean tempting me …
Zanzibar - Tanzania May 2008 The following morning we all piled into a minivan, African-style and headed to the harbour. I think it was an old Simpson’s episode where there is a car full of clowns and they kept popping out of the car, one after another for ages. Our minivan experience was much the …
Ngorongoro Crater & Serengeti NP - Tanzania May 2008 After lunch it was back to business. Our main purpose for being in Arusha was to head out on a two-day safari to the UNESCO World Heritage sites of the Ngorongoro conservation area and Serengeti National Park. We packed the essentials and piled into three jeeps …
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 …
Pole-Pole. "From the Western world, where a premium is set on efficiency and progress, it was delightful to come into this Arcadian land of easy simplicity, wooded hills, sunshine, and cheroots. No one is ever in a hurry in Burma, and though, as we sometimes found, this can be most aggravating, one is forced at …
