So after doing what we needed to do in Perth City we went to collect our hire car. Now for anyone who knows me well they would know that I am a stickler for rules! Now this coupled with a hire car could only lead to angst! Kirst had let herself in for an experience as my good friend Ruth would well know from when we hired a car in America back in 2005!So we pick up the car, I ask the guy a million questions to ensure that we are not going to get ripped off and th...

Ahhh Australia..... that wasnt my initial thought when we arrived at perth airport, as if the trauma of being told there was a problem with my passport wasnt enough to be told my date of birth on my visa was also incorrect was a bit annoying really I mean were they not going to let me into the country. I had a suddent thought that I would become like Tom Hanks in that movie where the guy just had to live in the airport because nowhere would let him in! A little d...

Etosha National Park a vast pan consisting of 20 000 square kilometres of land and home to a vast array of animals. We were to spend the next two days and nights within this park boundary putting to use our animal spotting skills, brilliant.So we headed to our first camp Namutoni, now Martina had told us that if we were to spot anything we should press the buzzer to let her know so we could stop. So imagine my excitement when we had not been in the park more than...

Now where was I, I cannot remember it was so long ago since I updated my journal so therefore all of the journal dates are out of sync until I consult the manually constructed kind, the one that is hand written that also is unfortunately a litte behind! So after the fish and chip incident and the drunken locals trying to pull the tent down everybody finally got some sleep. However it was an early start for me the next morning as I was on cooking duty that day, ...

Well we finally arrived into our last destination in South Africa, Johannesburg. I have too admit that we barely did anything except visit the mall firstly because  we wanted to save money and secondly there is a lot of scaremongering stories around that kind of puts you off venturing out anywhere, all probably not true but im sure some have good standing. So not much to report really except do not stay in gemini hostel it is rubbish however I thnk there are ...