Have now arrived in Jo'burg, just waiting here now for my flight to Australia! Rather excited about going back to Oz and also about being independent and having to make decisions for myself for a change. Plan is to hang around in Cairns for a few days and hopefully hook up with a few people with a car/camper van. If not I will be going by bus to start with down the coast. After 5 nights partying at Victoria Falls a big detox was in order. We left and crossed...

Wow time has flown. Haven't been on the internet in two weeks, so not got a clue what's going on in the world, how Preston are getting on etc etc! Absolutely loving it here, stuff is so cheap - currently paying around 20p for a bottle of beer... Not had any dodgy illnesses yet, though my tent buddy Roger got malaria a week or so ago... Not really a big deal though, few pills from the doctor and he was fine after a day. Last time I wrote I was in Zanziba...

Right, prepare yourself before reading this, it's going to be a bit of an essay, have got so much to write about! I left Nairobi last Monday at 8am, there are 7 other people doing the same trip as me - but they group people doing different trips together so there will be around 15-20 people all together at the same time.We drove from Nairobi down to Arusha, Tanzania. This took about 6 hours but the journey was amazing just staring out of the window and wavin...

After a long flight arrived in Nairobi about an hour late - arty pics of the 747's wing and sunset will follow at some point for all aerospace to geek over! immigration was really slow - not because they suspected me of being dodgy mind you. Was about 11pm by the time I got to the hotel. Met 2 other Warwick uni grad's so spent this morning wandering round Nairobi with them. Didn't get harassed as much as i was expecting, just the odd person trying to ...