After being hassled to death by locals in Tanzania i had developed a habit of completely ignoring anyone who spoke to me on the streets, but since Rwanda was a new country i decided to open up and give the local people a chance again. Big mistake!His name was kenny and i met him near my hotel. After chatting for a while he told me that he ran an orphanage and asked me if i would like to come and check it out.I was a little skeptical but when i arrived at the orph...

Excited to climb Mt Killimanjaro I arrived in Moshi, conducted some quick research and decided to to climb the 'Machame' route to the 5895m summit. The trek is a 6 day camping route and I had wanted to meet some other travelers to do the trek with but due to it being low season there weren't many other travelers around. Randomly I had found a cheapo agency that organized climbs for $900 plus tips (the cheapest deal in town) as it is mandatory to climb with a regi...

After chilling on zanzibar, eating seafood and tanning on the beach for a week I was really hungering for some adventure.I met up with Rusty an old school friend from Australia and his Tanzanian/English friend Thomas to do a few weeks of safari. Rusty had lived for in a Bolivian prision with Thomas 10 years ago and and had written a book chronicling Thomas's life during the 5 years that he was incarcerated for cocaine trafficking. The book called 'Marching Powder...

It's been a while between posts, I'm not sure whether its because internet is so sparse here or because I'm too busy lazing around to write. So a quick update then. I Arrived in cape town about 6 weeks ago and hired a car and drove a couple of thousand kms up the coast to Durban, just me and my beautiful slim 6'4 girlfriend (unfortunately that would be my surfboard). My plan was to get some good waves and not get eaten by sharks. I did get a few good waves but ...

First stop barrel city! The Mentawis, off Sumatra in Indonesia.I might not have been the best surfer on our trip (yes i was the worst), but i still managed to pull into a few tasty barrels. Let's just pretend that i made it out of all of them. We had a great crew on the boat and some real characters including a guy called Dino who freaked us all out by surfing in a Borat style 'mankini'. Check out the photo in my 'photos' section but watch out, the glare off his...