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 …
This is Africa. Meet Katherine, a Canadian lass I met in Croatia this June. Katherine told me a story about her friend wanting to climb Mount kilimanjaro and that when she too suggested that she would be up for the challenge, her friend promptly laughed. Not being one to be doubted, Katherine booked herself on …
