Monthly Archives: December 2012

From the foot of Kilimanjaro to the beaches of Zanzibar

As we had just left Amboseli we were advised to cross the border at a smaller border called Tarakea just outside Oloitokitok (no, I didn’t make that name up!) rather than going back up to Namanga, which is the usual crossing. This was probably the easiest border crossing so far – hardly even worth mentioning! […]

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Other reads!

Here are some other blogs from our fellow travelers that we met back in Aswan, Egypt. Here you can read Hannah and Diarmaid’s excellent blog post of their experiences in Aswan. It’s true, hilarious, sad, upsetting and honest all in one. Rick had a good daily blog going on – he has actually just recently […]

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Amboseli

As we drive down the plains and it turns into a more swampy area, I see them. Just little dots in the distance at first, but I soon reliase they’re not so little.  I have never in my life seen so many elephants at the same time, I don’t even bother trying to count them. […]

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A new route

For those of you observant enough to know that we are currently in Tanzania and not in Uganda as was our planned route, here’s a short briefing! We were in Nairobi and were discussing when to move on towards Uganda. That’s when we heard about the latest ebola outbreak – apparently air born now – […]

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