I stayed at Lonely Beach on Ko Chang, which was much less crowded than I thought it would be, and made a really good base for doing walks around the island, but after a couple of days I got a bit bored of beaching it, so decided to move on to Siem Reap. I was told the journey would take 6hrs, but because of delays getting a ferry, at the border, and general bad traffic/bad roads, it ended up taking 14... so I arrived in Siem Reap at 9 that night. Siem Reap was r...

The walking Safari, it has to be said, could have been a bigger success. We walked 30km through Mkomazi National Park, and the scenery was stunning, but because it was wet season the animals were all spread out, and the grass was long, so we saw 2 hartebeest, 2 dung beetles, 2 tortoises, a dik dik, a crab, tonnes of birds (including a hornbill like Zazu in the lion king), and the usual hordes of lizards. We saw evidence of most of the major animals (one of the du...

Last weekend Ana, Alistair and I went to Lushoto, I needed to get the first tree seeds to plant in one of the nurseries, and we did some hiking too. Lushot is absolutely stunning, it looks kind of like a tropical Bavaria, the actual shape of the scenery is really similar to that but there's rainforest covering the hills. On our hike we saw chameleons and monkeys in the jungle, before going on to (another) waterfall, it was really beautiful, and there were a few l...

Hmm, busy week On Saturday I trekked part way up Kili to get to the highest waterfall in East Africa, is 90m tall, and really impressive, unfortunately, the water in it had come pretty much straight from the glacier on Kili, so it was way to cold to even consider swimming, though I had a (very short) paddle. The guide who took us there was amazing though, he had loads of really interesting stories, he gave us all Chagga peace leaves, and he was the tourism repre...

Mambo! Life in Tanzania is still going amazingly... can't believe that I'll be leaving for Bangkok in 2 weeks! Time really flies! This week I've been tutoring at the secondary school in the mornings with the kids who haven't gone home for easter, it's really frustrating, because secondary is taught in english in Tanzania, and the kids don't understand a lot of the words, so even if they know the answer in Swahili they might not be able to pass the test in engli...