Final day on the road today! Well, with Nomad at least! It's actually not that far a drive from Arusha to Nairobi, the border obviously takes a bit of time but we arrived quite early in the afternoon after a pretty easy drive and that was it, all over! There is nothing on the itinerary for Kenya, not for us anyway. For those staying on and travelling into Uganda they will be spending a bit of time in this country including a trip into the Maasai Mara (the K...

I can't believe it's almost over, and I don't just mean these last few days, I'm talking about the whole Africa trip. Has it really been almost 6 weeks since we left Cape Town? The time has flown by really quickly and I'm more than just a little sad to be leaving this amazing continent. We had another early start this morning and made our descent into the crater just after dawn. The road down cuts down slowly so has traversed quite a few miles before it mak...

Today we have to get back across the Serengeti to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area - please feel free to refer to the map from the Day 39 album. We will be spending the night on the rim of the crater and descending into it tomorrow morning for another game drive to see what's living down there, and what isn't. But before all that we have all day to cover about 100km, a journey that our guide tells us will take about 3 hours. So that means plenty of time to ...

Day 2 in the Serengeti and I slept surprisingly well. A few of us heard noises of animals close by in the night (there is a fence around us but it's not completely enclosed). Mainly we heard hyena's raiding the bins and getting up this morning the bin area looked like bins back home that have been raided by foxes, it was a mess! The showers here are probably the worst I've seen so we've all decided to stick to baby wipes! Oh well, if we all smell the same I...

UNBELIEVABLY excited about the next few days!!! We're going to the Serengeti…. The Serengeti National Park is one of the most recognised wildlife parks in the world and is the classic "African Safari". Anyone who has ever watched an African wildlife program on the Discovery Channel or National Geographic has undoubtedly seen images shot here. Excluding the Ngorongoro National Park, which is linked to it and we'll be going there too, the park covers near...