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After a 2-night hop from Lower Zambezi back to Maramba in Livingstone, we were ready to cross into Zimbabwe, heading for Ivory Lodge at Hwange National Park. We had an early night, planning to get an early start as we … Continue reading
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All too soon we had to leave Hwange and head back to Victoria Falls. Just time for 1 last sundowner at the Ivory Lodge elephant hide. It’s pretty easy to lose a whole day there, watching the elephants, occasional giraffe, … Continue reading
After a fairly intense start to Tamsin & Judith’s trip with us, we decided to make it a little less of a whistle-stop tour and make the rest of the stay a little more relaxing. We started with a bit … Continue reading
Lake Malawi is sometimes know as The Calendar Lake’. It’s huge: around 356 miles long and 52 miles wide. From up on the Nyika Plateau you can see across to the mountains of Tanzania and Mozambique. At the lake shore … Continue reading
I couldn’t get over how good the road was down through the centre of Tanzania. On our original entry, from Mbeya to Dar Es Salam it was appalling. Maybe I’d have to take back all my curses at Tanzanian roads … Continue reading
Leaving Rwanda we drove a scenic, beautifully tarred, 120km road to the Rusumo Falls border with Tanzania. Speed limits here are very low – typically 40kph and 60kph on occasional roads, so it’s still a 3 hour drive. We got … Continue reading
It was time to move on from Kasese. Either side of flying home for Charlie’s wedding, we had been in Kasese District for about 5 months and leaving was a bit of a wrench. Having had so much warm hospitality … Continue reading
Leaving Uganda was tough. We knew it would be tough because we’ve made so many friends and had such a great time with the Fuel Briquette team that it was hard to drag ourselves away. The quantity and quality of … Continue reading
Gareth & Kirsty arrived briefly at Karen Camp, Nairobi and it was good to see them again. They’d been hanging around trying to get Visas for Ethiopia and had finally got a flat ‘NO!” The same answer they got in … Continue reading
Just to ram home the lunatic driving on Serengeti tracks by some tour drivers, before we left Seronera Tumbili Camp we met a Kenyan chap. He’d just completed a 3-day Safari in Serengeti with a Saudi Prince and his entourage … Continue reading