…are knackered. They’re Sebago Docksiders, almost 16 years old. They have been fantastically comfortable shoes. They’ve been soaked (often hanging off boats) in The Pacific, Atlantic & Indian; drenched in The Mediterranean, North, Caribbean, Red, Arabian & South China Seas; … Continue reading
All too soon we had to leave Ivory Lodge and Hwange National Park for (relative) civilisation back at the town of Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe border. We stayed at Victoria Falls Rest Camp in the centre of town. Camping … Continue reading
It was difficult to leave Jinja (the town isn’t anything special, but The Nile is beautiful). Camping on the banks, with early morning views like this from The Penthouse made us want to stay longer. We didn’t stray far from … Continue reading
The Turkana tribal dancing went on past dusk and late into the night. It’s not so much ‘dance’ as foot-stamping, springing into the air and chanting. Is this where the Punk Rock craze got their inspiration? Probably not, or Punk … Continue reading
The Tribal Festival at Lake Turkana is held in Kenya’s old ‘Northern Frontier District’ renowned for warring tribes and roving bandits. It’s one of the bleakest, most remote regions of Kenya and it takes a hell of an effort to … Continue reading
We left our muddy hill camp at Maralal just after sunrise to pick up our Ascari (armed escort) ahead of another long, hard day’s drive. Unfortunately when we got to the Police HQ the Chief of Police was having his … Continue reading
We limped the car 30km from Ilariak camp into Narok town where Moses had found us a small workshop that could look at the chassis and the brakes. It was pretty basic but the owner / mechanic Paulo seemed confident … Continue reading
With our reconditioned axel in place we left Jerome in Lushoto, back down the Usambara hairpins to the plains and headed 280km north west to Moshi. We just did a quick overnight stop at The Keys Annex camping and accommodation … Continue reading
I don’t think either of us was disappointed to leave the Dar Es Salaam area and we were looking forward to some beach-time further north. Helene drove, as my leg was too raw to be able to work the clutch … Continue reading
Very disappointed to leave Wildlife Camp at South Luangwa. it probably rates in our Top 5 so far. However, we were Malawi bound. 180km or so back to Chipata, on the best road we’ve driven in Africa (probably because it’s … Continue reading