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 …
Sossusvlei to Cape Town - Namibia to South Africa June 2008 Namibia is vast, an impression I got at Spitzkoppe, the same impression I got while admiring the view under a parachute, and the same impression I got when we arrived at our “almost bush camp”, the first night after leaving Swakopmund. I say it …
Swakopmund - Namibia June 2008 Both surprisingly and unsurprisingly I awoke relatively late in the morning. Unsurprisingly because I was super comfortable and I can sleep better than most hibernating bears yet, surprisingly because in a few hours’ time I was scheduled to jump out of a plane. I had done a skydive five years …
Spitzkoppe to Swakopmund - Namibia June 2008 Spitzkoppe is one of those places you have never heard about and one I would never have visited if it hadn’t been for the tour. As we drove out into the vast Namib desert all I knew was that we were off to see a giant rock, Africa’s …
Etosha National Park - Namibia June 2008 The first big stop in Namibia was Etosha National Park, an extremely long drive day north of Windhoek. Etosha was to be our final National Park of the tour, which left a sad feeling beginning to take a hold of me. We were about to commence a series …
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