Leaving Arusha After trying to decide what to do next as all our plans were upside down from the start, we costed out going to Pemba Island and Zanzibar which was my top choice... But sadly it was so expensive with all of us, no concession prices for kids at all on this small planes. Would have been $2000.... So no exotic island for me! So we decide to hit the road and head to lake Victoria which had been an original destination. Kids are sad to leave snake park ...

Into the Serengeti An early pick up for us at 7.30 as the company bee eater safari's come to get us from snake camp. But it was another rain filled night and it poured and poured.... Just got heavier and heavier as it neared dawn. As I was the only one with a rain jacket, I got up to cook bacon and eggs in the rain,I'm so hardcore and I wasn't even ever a girl guide, in fact I was chucked out the brownies! Under the cover of the tent I managed it, a tiny bit o...

Sunday 18th January (I think) Tried to get some gas refilled today as we've run out but the shop was closed as it was Sunday... So no cooking for me, but worse no cup of tea! The boys didn't want to come back to town so they stayed with Ma the lovely lady that runs the campsite. The snake park is the boys idea of heaven... Don't worry everyone, I can just imagine everyone's faces

We left Bagamoyo and go off on our drive to Arusha, we break our journey at Loshoto in the usambara mountains. Beautiful drive round hairpin bends in lush green countryside. Not the African bush I've seen before! Reading the guide books there are more types of trees here than anywhere!! Birds galore so the boys are happy, the bird book is out and being well thumbed. There's a lot of vegetables being grown on the steep mountainside and the soil looks so fertile. B...

Well a change of plan... As always in Africa something happens, this time the deep cell battery which charges the fridge onboard isn't charging and we need a new one. After what seemed a hopeful buy by phone and a taxi driver bringing it down to us from Dar .. It was the wrong one! So we decide to go to Arusha and get one there... So a complete change of direction and plans turned upside down. We were going to end up there and fly home. But we've looked at the m...