My last entry from Africa (until next time of course)... so I've decided to sum it all up with my Top 5's... Favourite Places:1. Shipton's camp - Mt Kenya (I think the combination of the stunning views, funny furry little creatures, looming peaks challenging you and the fact that you got there through your own efforts makes this number 1)2. Island with the tortoises - Seychelles 3. Dixcove village - Ghana (the cutest village ever, old castle, lot...

So Burundi looks nothing like this picture... in fact if you took all the water from the river in the picture and poured it out of the sky in bucket loads you would have a more accurate picture... But felt I had to give an update from Bujumbura as it is very likely, not sure why, that I won't be coming back here. As for my plans of going overland into Tanzania... well, glad you asked. It turns out that the roads close at 4pm because of the likelyhood of am...

Ok, so I'm in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi (country that I didn't know existed until recently but sure, here I am...) but this entry is about Rwanda.Mum and I went to the Rwanda Memorial Centre which is a memorial marking the Rwandan genocide and many others that have occured in the past. I feel that anyone visiting Rwanda somehow owes it to the country to visit this centre, as the Genocide is such a significant part of the countries history. For me it h...

Yesterday Mum and I went to visit the mountain gorillas at Parc National des Volcans. Seeing as it was really expensive and you can only spend an hour with the gorillas themselves we wanted to go on a long walk through the bush to find them. There are multiple groups, some are close and some take hours to reach. Clearly we didn't want to pay hundreds of dollars to walk for about ten minutes. Now, we planned to make sure we got to visit the Susa group which ...

Quick catch up on the last week or so... Spent a few days recovering from Mt Kenya climb in Nairobi finding out where some random muscles were that I'd never felt before Picked up my mother from the airport, quite a crazy thing to be randomly in Africa and be able to show someone around when they arrive... introduced her to the fruit salad place around the corner where she became a regular like myself... Went to the giraffe centre in karen where we hand ...