It was really difficult to pull myself away the Nkhata Bay. Each night we packed up ready to leave and each morning we decided to stay an extra day so we could just stay by the lake. The Lake seemed to have this captivating quality which doesn't let you go. After realising that we were now into September we had to make a move to Tanzania. The journey took 2 and a half days to reach Zanzibar and even though I am an experienced traveller. That journey was TOUGH! ...

We left Vic Falls thankful that we made it out alive and boarded an incredible bus that had DVD players with about 10 movie channels on demand in the back of the seats and an attendant dishing out soft drinks and cookies on a bus……in Africa! It was wonderful. The driver operated like a pilot, updating us on our journeys progress. A novel moment was a prayer being said for our safety on loudspeaker at the start of our journey which I admit made me feel a lit...

We visited Zimbabwe for a night to have high tea and cocktails at the iconic Victoria Falls Hotel which was built in the 1800s and full of old colonial memorabilia, it was like stepping back to a time when Englishmen would come to poach elephants and other wild animals in safari hats and sip gin and tonics on the veranda. We stayed at a backpackers called Shoestrings which was even lively on a Monday night, full of locals dancing away. We met a couple of lovely...

Dying to get some action and fun and adventure, we headed to Livingstone, the thrill-seekers capital of Zambia. We met some lovely American missionaries at the border who took us across the river Zambezi and drove us to our backpackers an hour away. Their 13 year old son was lovely, he was born and grew up in Africa and was just about to start high school in America. I immediately thought of Lindsey Lohans character in Mean Girls. I wonder if he will get corrup...

We high-tailed it out of Jo'burg the next day on a bus to Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. We said goodbye to predictable water, electricity, guaranteed toilet roll and clean streets, all indications of 'civilisation', however here, a contradictory word meaning industrialised and physically developed in South Africa, but, meaning that one can't walk around the city without a fear of muggings. The journey was 6 hours to Gaborone and the bus was nice by Western...