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...

I was exhausted waking up this morning and more than a little bit downbeat. Today we drive via Arusha where we will drop off Sarah who has decided to leave the tour early (she is a free spirit and prefers it that way) to travel on her own into Rwanda to see the gorillas. Sarah always planned to do this alone. For a start, Nomad doesn't go to Rwanda, they see they gorillas in Uganda instead. But she had planned to stay with us until Nairobi. The thing is, t...