Today's Agenda, trekking the mountain gorillas in Rwanda. There are about 800 mountain gorillas left in the world and they are all found in Africa, despite costing nearly $600 for the permit it is well worth the money and I would recommend it to anyone, it's also going to a good cause to try and protect these magnificent animals and get the population on the increase. After a bumpy one hour journey covering 17km we arrived at car park. Me, Jon, Rogan, Alison,...

Early morning starts are s***! Wake up still pitch black and freezing cold = great start to the day. This early start was actually worth it as we were heading to the Ngorongoro crater for a game drive, What a stunning place, would of been a great view from the rim of the crater but there was a lot of mist. passed a lioness just casually walking on the road Headed into the basin and first animal we seen was a pack of 6 lions, basking in the morning sun on the t...

A holiday within a holiday! 4 days in Zanzibar. I'm not going to write a blog for each day. The crossing took around 2 and a half hours by ferry lounging on bean bags in the sun. Arrived in stone town where we will be spending the first night before heading to the north of the island. Checked in at the hotel and Me, Martin, Lee, Rogan and Graham booked some motorbikes for 2 days. Despite my lack of bike license we were assured this wouldn't be a problem. On...

After a break from writing my blog, not that I haven't wanted too, just a lack of wifi to upload blog, so I have decided to write a blog for each big event/activities that I do. Early morning game drive in the ruaha national park one of the more prestige parks in tanzania with under 9000 visitors a year. What a great park not only for the animals seen but the great landscape and beauty of the park, several baobab trees 1000's of years old and lush green grass a...

Rudely awoken at around 4am by a loud bang on the roof of the truck, first guess was baboons but to my amazement I sat up to see 3 large female elephants banging and pushing the truck! The truck was rocking and felt like it was up on two wheels. All I could then see out the window was a beady eye as the elephant was ripping open the storage locker full of cereal and mangos! Luckily the guard arrived and managed to shoo away the elephants with several stones an...